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Spotting vs Noticing - What's the difference?

spotting | noticing |

As verbs the difference between spotting and noticing

is that spotting is present participle of lang=en while noticing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between spotting and noticing

is that spotting is a spotted pattern while noticing is the act by which something is noticed.

spotting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spotted pattern.
  • * 1954 , Thomas H. Everett, The American Gardener's Book of Bulbs (page 161)
    • Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.
  • The act of spotting or sighting something.
  • * 2009 , Marine Corps (US), Close Air Support and the Battle for Khe Sanh (page 100)
    • Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts

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    noticing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is noticed.
  • * 2005 , Susan Cerulean, Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-tailed Kites (page 132)
    • I believe these simple, crude noticings on my part must parallel the beginnings of systems of augury.