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Performing vs Making - What's the difference?

performing | making |

As verbs the difference between performing and making

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

As nouns the difference between performing and making

is that performing is performance while making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

performing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • performance
  • * 1856 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, English traits (page 248)
    • Yet the misfortune of his life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings , failing to accomplish any one masterpiece, seems to mark the closing of an era.

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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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