Getting vs Making - What's the difference?
getting | making |
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
* Bible, Proverbs iv. 7
That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
* J. H. Riddell, Old Mrs Jones
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Process of growth or development.
As verbs the difference between getting and making
is that getting is while making is .As nouns the difference between getting and making
is that getting is the act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition while making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.getting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- With all thy getting , get understanding.
- She was always considering how to increase her "gettings ," but she never gave a thought as to how she might save them.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.Noun
(en noun)- ''As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making .
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas