The difference between Booking and Reservation

Booking as a verb:

Booking as a noun:

The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.

Booking as a noun:

A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.

Booking as a noun:

The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.

Booking as a noun (sports):

The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.

Booking as a noun (legal):

The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.

Reservation as a noun:

The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick. The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.

Reservation as a noun:

Something that is withheld or kept back.

Reservation as a noun (often, plural):

A limiting qualification; a doubt.

Reservation as a noun (US):

A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian ).

Reservation as a noun:

An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.

Reservation as a noun (UK):

The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.

Reservation as a noun (India):

The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).