Making vs Taking - What's the difference?
making | taking |
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Process of growth or development.
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 nouns the difference between making and taking
is that making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction while taking is the act by which something is taken.As verbs the difference between making and taking
is that making is while taking is .As an adjective taking is
alluring; attractive.making
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.Noun
(en noun)- ''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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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 .