Taking vs Keeping - What's the difference?
taking | keeping |
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.
conformity or harmony.
charge or care.
* South
Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between taking and keeping
is that taking is the act by which something is taken while keeping is conformity or harmony.As verbs the difference between taking and keeping
is that taking is while keeping is .As an adjective taking
is alluring; attractive.taking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- subtile in making his temptations most taking
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Noun
- 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 .
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* for the takingSee also
* takingsStatistics
*keeping
English
Noun
- The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
- The foreground of this painting is not in keeping .
- His happiness is in his own keeping .
- The cattle have good keeping .
- the work of many hands, which earns my keeping