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Making vs Kissing - What's the difference?

making | kissing |

As nouns the difference between making and kissing

is that making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction while kissing is the act of giving a kiss.

As verbs the difference between making and kissing

is that making is while kissing is .

As an adjective kissing is

just touching.

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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    kissing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Just touching.

    • Derived terms

    * kissing cousin * kissing gate * kissing gourami

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a kiss.
  • * 1844 , Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches
    • There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings , the family parted, and the wagon drove off