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Looking vs Looping - What's the difference?

looking | looping |

As verbs the difference between looking and looping

is that looking is present participle of lang=en while looping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between looking and looping

is that looking is the act of one who looks; a glance while looping is something that loops; a looped pattern or action.

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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    looping

    English

    (wikipedia looping)

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that loops; a looped pattern or action.

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

  • The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

    • Anagrams

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