Living vs Doing - What's the difference?
living | doing |
Having life.
* :
In use or existing.
Of everyday life.
True to life.
(uncountable) The state of being alive.
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
A style of life.
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
As verbs the difference between living and doing
is that living is while doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard).As an adjective living
is having life.As a noun living
is (uncountable) the state of being alive.living
English
(wikipedia living)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- These living conditions are deplorable.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Antonyms
* dead * nonlivingDerived terms
* living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living willNoun
- What do you do for a living ?
- plain living
Derived terms
* make a livingStatistics
* English intensifiersdoing
English
Alternative forms
* (pedantic)Etymology 1
See (do).Noun
(en noun)- This is his doing . (= "He did it.")
