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Looking vs Sounding - What's the difference?

looking | sounding |

As verbs the difference between looking and sounding

is that looking is while sounding is .

As nouns the difference between looking and sounding

is that looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance while sounding is the action of the verb to sound or sounding can be test made with a probe or sonde.

As an adjective sounding is

emitting a sound.

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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    sounding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sownden, sounen, from (etyl) suner, (etyl) soner (modern sonner ), from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to sound .
    • The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep.
  • * (John Lightfoot)
    • And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day;
    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Emitting a sound.
    • The sounding bell woke me up.
  • sonorous
  • * Dryden
    • sounding words
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • In her tomb by the sounding sea.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Test made with a probe or sonde.
  • * 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
    • Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
  • A measured depth of water.
    • The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
  • The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
  • The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

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