Having vs Taking - What's the difference?
having | taking |
Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
* Shakespeare
* 1875 , Tennyson, Queen Mary
alluring; attractive.
* Fuller
(obsolete) infectious; contagious
The act by which something is taken.
* 2010 , Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (page 75)
(uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
(uncountable) An apprehension.
(countable) That which has been gained.
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*: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.
As verbs the difference between having and taking
is that having is present participle of lang=en while taking is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between having and taking
is that having is something owned; possession; goods; estate while taking is the act by which something is taken.As an adjective taking is
alluring; attractive.having
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I'll lend you something; my having is not much.
- Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade,
- Your rights and charters hobnail' d into slush
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*taking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- subtile in making his temptations most taking
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Noun
- 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.
- Count the shop's takings .
