Booking vs Meeting - What's the difference?
booking | meeting |
The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
(sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
(legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
As verbs the difference between booking and meeting
is that booking is present participle of lang=en while meeting is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between booking and meeting
is that booking is the act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting while meeting is the action of the verb to meet.booking
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* booking clerk * booking officeSee also
* inscriptionmeeting
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- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.