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Looming vs Runup - What's the difference?

looming | runup |

As nouns the difference between looming and runup

is that looming is the condition of something that looms or towers while runup is .

As a verb looming

is .

looming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of something that looms or towers.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him,

    runup

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)