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Looking vs Peering - What's the difference?

looking | peering |

As verbs the difference between looking and peering

is that looking is while peering is .

As nouns the difference between looking and peering

is that looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance while peering is (internet) the act of carrying communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment.

looking

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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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    peering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet) The act of carrying communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment.
  • * 2001 , Peter Willis, Carrier-Scale IP Networks
    • The BT UK service uses a combination of private peerings and bilateral peerings at the UK exchange points in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.