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Waving vs Wading - What's the difference?

waving | wading |

As verbs the difference between waving and wading

is that waving is present participle of lang=en while wading is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between waving and wading

is that waving is repeated moving of arms or hands to signal while wading is the act of one who wades.

As an adjective wading is

appropriate to wade in.

waving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.

    • wading

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Appropriate to wade in.
    • The pool is too small for doing laps: it's only a wading pool.
  • Which wades.
    • Flamingos are wading birds.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who wades.
  • * (Charles Kingsley)

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