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Waving vs Fluttering - What's the difference?

waving | fluttering |

As verbs the difference between waving and fluttering

is that waving is while fluttering is .

As nouns the difference between waving and fluttering

is that waving is repeated moving of arms or hands to signal while fluttering is rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.

waving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

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

    • fluttering

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
    • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite
  • * 1844 , Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life (page 59)
    • Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings , together with low clatterings, approached her ear.

    Verb

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