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Spotting vs Heed - What's the difference?

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Spotting is a related term of heed.


As nouns the difference between spotting and heed

is that spotting is a spotted pattern while heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath.

As a verb spotting

is .

spotting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spotted pattern.
  • * 1954 , Thomas H. Everett, The American Gardener's Book of Bulbs (page 161)
    • Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.
  • The act of spotting or sighting something.
  • * 2009 , Marine Corps (US), Close Air Support and the Battle for Khe Sanh (page 100)
    • Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts

    Derived terms

    * * *

    heed

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Careful attention.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

    Usage notes

    * Often used with give, pay or take.

    Synonyms

    * (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  • * Dryden
    • With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
  • * 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, " Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
    • Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
  • (archaic) To pay attention, care.