Taking vs Performing - What's the difference?
taking | performing |
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.
performance
* 1856 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, English traits (page 248)
As nouns the difference between taking and performing
is that taking is the act by which something is taken while performing is performance.As verbs the difference between taking and performing
is that taking is while performing 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
*performing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
