Clacking vs. Shaking

Clackingnoun

A sound that clacks.

Shakingnoun

A movement that shakes.

Shakingnoun

the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements

Shakingnoun

a shaky motion;

‘the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe’;

Shakingadjective

vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze;

‘a quaking bog’; ‘the quaking child asked for more’; ‘quivering leaves of a poplar tree’; ‘with shaking knees’; ‘seemed shaky on her feet’; ‘sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier’; ‘trembling hands’;