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Prospecting vs Looking - What's the difference?

prospecting | looking |

As verbs the difference between prospecting and looking

is that prospecting is while looking is .

As nouns the difference between prospecting and looking

is that prospecting is the act of one who prospects while looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.

prospecting

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Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who prospects.
  • * 1858 , William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)
    • He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings , and the price of gold.

    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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