different between seizing vs harnessing

English

Etymology

From seize +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?siz??/

Verb

seizing

1. present participle of seize

Noun

seizing (plural seizings)

1. The act of grabbing or taking possession.
2. (chiefly in the plural) Something seized.

   The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.

3. A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36

     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.

   1. Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.

Adjective

seizing (comparative more seizing, superlative most seizing)

1. 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.

English

Verb

harnessing

1. present participle of harness

Noun

harnessing (plural harnessings)

1. The materials used to harness an animal.
   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

     All this, along with the carriages and harnessings of the horses, was temporarily housed in the armoury on the east side of one of the inner quadrangles.