Looking vs Pursuit - What's the difference?
looking | pursuit |
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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
The act of pursuing.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 27, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
(cycling) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
(legal, obsolete) prosecution
* Fuller
As nouns the difference between looking and pursuit
is that looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance while pursuit is the act of pursuing.As a verb looking
is .looking
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 .
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*pursuit
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Mother
Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City, passage=Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.}}
- That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court.
