See vs Looking - What's the difference?
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To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
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# To witness or observe by personal experience.
#* (Bible), (w) viii. 51
To form a mental picture of.
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, volume=189, issue=11, page=28, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= # (label) To understand.
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, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= # To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
(label) To meet, to visit.
# To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
#* (Bible), 1 (w) xv. 35
# To date frequently.
(label) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
(label) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if'' or ''whether ).
(used in the imperative ) Used to emphasise a proposition.
A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
* Spenser
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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
As nouns the difference between see and looking
is that see is while looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.As a verb looking is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path.
- Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Wings of Desire, passage=It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
- And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
Synonyms
* (perceive with the eyes) behold, descry, espy, observe, view * (understand) follow, get, understandDerived terms
* aftersee * besee * foresee * forsee * insee * missee * outsee * oversee * see a man about a dog * see for * see things * see someone right * see stars * see the light of day * see through * see-through * see with one's own eyes * undersee * unseeSee also
* look * sight * watchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see .
Derived terms
* Holy SeeSee also
* cathedra * cathedral * chair * throneStatistics
*External links
* (wikipedia "see")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 .