Locking vs Looking - What's the difference?
locking | looking |
The act by which something is locked.
* 1862 , Wilkie Collins, No Name
(computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.
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, 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
(obsolete) The act of one who looks; a glance.
(obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
* Chaucer
As verbs the difference between locking and looking
is that locking is while looking is .As nouns the difference between locking and looking
is that locking is the act by which something is locked while looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.locking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...
Derived terms
* double-checked lockinglooking
English
Verb
(head)George Goodchild
- Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
Derived terms
* good-looking * looking glassNoun
(en noun)- All dreary was his cheer and his looking .