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Hailing vs Taking - What's the difference?

hailing | taking |

As verbs the difference between hailing and taking

is that hailing is while taking is .

As nouns the difference between hailing and taking

is that hailing is the act by which somebody is hailed while taking is the act by which something is taken.

As an adjective taking is

alluring; attractive.

hailing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is hailed.
  • * Sara Mills
  • There is an unending series of hailings , both direct and indirect, to which the reader responds or does not respond. Thus, although certain texts attempt to address themselves to the reader, she may be critical of them

    Anagrams

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    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

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