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Rubbing vs Stroking - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between rubbing and stroking

is that rubbing is an impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent while stroking is the act by which something is stroked.

As verbs the difference between rubbing and stroking

is that rubbing is present participle of lang=en while stroking is present participle of lang=en.

rubbing

English

(wikipedia rubbing)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • stroking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is stroked.
  • * Milton
    • I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.
  • (textiles) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.
    • (Webster 1913)