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Seizure vs Seizing - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between seizure and seizing

is that seizure is the act of taking possession, as by force or right of law while seizing is a type of lashing or binding by a small cord.

As a verb seizing is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective seizing is

that seizes the attention; impressive.

seizure

English

Noun

(en noun) (Search and seizure) (wikipedia seizure)
  • The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
    • the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
    The search warrant permitted the seizure of evidence.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VII
    • As yet there had been no alarm of fever. The three seizures had excited some comment, however, and had it not been for the counter-excitement of the burning ship, it is possible that Pine's precaution would have been thrown away
  • A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
    • He fell to the floor and convulsed when the epilectic seizure occurred.
  • A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
    • He felt the sudden seizure of pain as the heart attack began.
  • (obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership
  • * Dryden
    • Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, / And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.
  • That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

    • seizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a type of lashing or binding by a small cord
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
  • *:Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
  • # Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That seizes the attention; impressive.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
  • *:It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.