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Hooting vs Looting - What's the difference?

hooting | looting |

As verbs the difference between hooting and looting

is that hooting is while looting is .

As nouns the difference between hooting and looting

is that hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound while looting is the act of looting, the act of stealing during a general disturbance.

hooting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Washington Irving, title=Bracebridge Hall, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification. }}

    looting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of looting, the act of stealing during a general disturbance.
    • During the looting , the mob stole everything they could and then set fire to the buildings.

    Verb

    (head)
    • While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal.

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