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Looking vs Exploring - What's the difference?

looking | exploring |

As verbs the difference between looking and exploring

is that looking is present participle of lang=en while exploring is {{present participle of |explore|lang=en}.

As nouns the difference between looking and exploring

is that looking is the act of one who looks; a glance while exploring is the action of the verb explore.

looking

English

Verb

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  • *{{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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    exploring

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb explore.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • * 1948 , , North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
    • While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.