Handing vs Giving - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between handing and giving is that handing is while giving is . As nouns the difference between handing and giving is that handing is the act by which something is handed to somebody while giving is the act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. As an adjective giving is having the tendency to give; generous.
handing Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
The act by which something is handed to somebody.
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued
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giving Verb
( head)
- ''These bright surfaces are sprayed with a fine spray of ink, thus giving them an even surface.' - First Usenet use via Google Groups, fa.human-nets, 6 May 1981 0359-EDT, Gary Feldman at CMU-10A
Adjective
( en adjective)
having the tendency to give; generous
- To become like Christ involves everything else: becoming a loving and giving person, having confidence enabling you to be vulnerable (psychologically and physically; Jesus did both), having the wisdom to see people's needs and the desire to meet them. - net.flame - 26 Mar 1984 by Jeff Sargent
Noun
( en noun)
The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
A gift; a benefaction.
- (Alexander Pope)
The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
* Addison
- Upon the first giving of the weather.
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