Making vs Turning - What's the difference?
making | turning |
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Process of growth or development.
(British) A turn or deviation from a straight course.
* Take the second turning on the left.
(senseid)The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
The act of turning.
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(plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
* The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
* The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.
* He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.
As nouns the difference between making and turning
is that making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction while turning is (british) a turn or deviation from a straight course.As verbs the difference between making and turning
is that making is while turning is .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
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}