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Having vs Making - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between having and making

is that having is while making is .

As nouns the difference between having and making

is that having is something owned; possession; goods; estate while making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

having

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll lend you something; my having is not much.
  • * 1875 , Tennyson, Queen Mary
    • Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade,
    Your rights and charters hobnail' d into slush

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    making

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
  • Process of growth or development.
    • ''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

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