Tapping vs Battered - What's the difference?
tapping | battered |
An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
*:As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it...
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart, work=New York Times
, passage=She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings . }}
(music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
(batter)
Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
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, title= Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
(label) Coated with batter.
As verbs the difference between tapping and battered
is that tapping is present participle of lang=en while battered is past tense of batter.As a noun tapping
is an act of making a light hit or strike against something.As an adjective battered is
beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.tapping
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Noun
(wikipedia tapping) (en noun)citation
Verb
(head)battered
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered -looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}