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Thumping vs Beating - What's the difference?

thumping | beating |

As nouns the difference between thumping and beating

is that thumping is a dull, heavy sound while beating is action of the verb to beat

As verbs the difference between thumping and beating

is that thumping is present participle of lang=en while beating is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective thumping

is exceptional in some degree.

thumping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Exceptional in some degree.

    • Noun

  • A dull, heavy sound.
  • * 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
    • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
  • A beating.
    • He received a thumping from the school bully.
  • * 1824 , William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers
    • And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
  • (sports) A heavy defeat.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 11 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation. }}

    Synonyms

    * (heavy defeat) thrashing

    Verb

    (head)

    • beating

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to beat
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.}}
  • a heavy defeat or setback
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating .}}
  • the pulsation of the heart

    • Verb

    (head)

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