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Mating vs Making - What's the difference?

mating | making |

As nouns the difference between mating and making

is that mating is pairing of organisms for copulation while making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

As verbs the difference between mating and making

is that mating is present participle of lang=en while making is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective mating

is fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

mating

English

(wikipedia mating)

Adjective

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  • Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
  • * 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
    • The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

    Synonyms

    * pairing

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    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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