Racking vs Taking - What's the difference?
racking | taking |
A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
spun yarn used in racking ropes
The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
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 racking and taking
is that racking is a method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up while taking is the act by which something is taken.As verbs the difference between racking and taking
is that racking is while taking is .As an adjective taking is
alluring; attractive.racking
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(en adjective)- subtile in making his temptations most taking
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- 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 .