different between knocking vs rapping

knocking

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?n?k??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?k??/
  • Rhymes: -?k??
  • Hyphenation: knock?ing

Verb

knocking

  1. present participle of knock

Noun

knocking (plural knockings)

  1. An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced

knocking From the web:

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  • what's knocking traveller
  • what's knocking on heavens door about
  • knocking in engine
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  • what knocking in car


rapping

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /??æp.??/
  • Homophone: wrapping
  • Rhymes: -æp??

Verb

rapping

  1. present participle of rap

Noun

rapping (plural rappings)

  1. The sound of a rap or knock.
    During the séance, we heard mysterious rappings on the table.
  2. (music) Musical speech accompanied by a rhythm, most commonly as part of hip-hop music.

Adjective

rapping (comparative more rapping, superlative most rapping)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Remarkably large; whopping.

References

  • (large, whopping): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • parping

rapping From the web:

  • what rapping mean
  • what rapping around means
  • what rapping knuckles
  • what rapping song is
  • what rapping stand for
  • rapping what is a bar
  • what is rapping in music
  • what does rapping means
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