Tapping vs Typing - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tapping and typing

is that tapping is an act of making a light hit or strike against something while typing is assigning or classification by type.

is that tapping is while typing is .

(wikipedia tapping) (en noun)

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...

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, 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

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(wikipedia typing)

(en noun)

Assigning or classification by type.

(computing) the act of typing on a keyboard.

* manifest typing