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Taking vs Drinking - What's the difference?

taking | drinking |

As nouns the difference between taking and drinking

is that taking is the act by which something is taken while drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

As verbs the difference between taking and drinking

is that taking is while drinking is .

As an adjective taking

is alluring; attractive.

taking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • alluring; attractive.
  • * Fuller
  • subtile in making his temptations most taking
  • (obsolete) infectious; contagious
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Noun

  • The act by which something is taken.
  • * 2010 , Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (page 75)
  • Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
  • (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
  • (uncountable) An apprehension.
  • (countable) That which has been gained.
  • Count the shop's takings .

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • Derived terms

    * for the taking

    See also

    * takings

    Statistics

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    drinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
  • * 1853 , Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
  • At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.