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Appearing vs Looking - What's the difference?

appearing | looking |

As verbs the difference between appearing and looking

is that appearing is while looking is .

As nouns the difference between appearing and looking

is that appearing is appearance; act of coming into view while looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.

appearing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • appearance; act of coming into view
  • * 1866', Caleb Webb, Discourses on 'the Lord's prayer (page 120)
    • Sudden and extensive disappearings and fresh appearings would startle and confound us, and if continued, would shatter our sense of personality out of us.

    looking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • * 1988 September 12, New York Magazine , page 226
    • Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.

    Derived terms

    * good-looking * looking glass

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of one who looks; a glance.
  • (obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
  • * Chaucer
    • All dreary was his cheer and his looking .

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