different between snaking vs staking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sne?k??/

Verb

snaking

1. present participle of snake

Noun

snaking (plural snakings)

1. A twisting, serpentine layout or motion.
   • 1921, Lewis Ransome Freeman, Down the Columbia

     Except that the latter's spinal column must have suffered some pretty severe snakings when the camera-carrier went through corduroy bridges […]

English

Etymology 1

From stake +? -ing.

Verb

staking

1. present participle of stake

Etymology 2

From Middle English stakyng, staking, from Old English stacung (“staking”), from Old English *stacian (“to drive stakes”), equivalent to stake +? -ing.

Noun

staking (plural stakings)

1. An act of stabbing with a stake.
   • 2009, Jonathan Maberry, David F. Kramer, They Bite

     Despite the quick, clean “dustings” shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or the bloody stakings in so many vampire films, the stake was not a weapon used to actually destroy a vampire but a tool in a more elaborate exorcism.

Anagrams

• Gitksan, skating, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, takings, tasking

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch staking. Equivalent to staak +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??.k??/

Noun

staking (plural stakings, diminutive stakinkie)

1. strike (work stoppage)

Dutch

Etymology

From staken +? -ing. First attested in the sixteenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?.k??/
• Hyphenation: sta?king

Noun

staking f (plural stakingen, diminutive stakinkje n)

1. strike (work stoppage) [from 19th c.]
2. cessation, delay, the act of ending or delaying something
3. deadlock, tie in voting

Derived terms

• estafettestaking
• hongerstaking
• klimaatstaking
• leerlingenstaking
• spoorwegstaking
• stakingsbreker
• stakingsgolf
• stakingskas
• stakingsrecht
• stakingsverbod
• werkstaking

Descendants

• Afrikaans: staking
• ? West Frisian: staking

Middle English

Noun

staking

1. Alternative form of stakyng