Looking vs Sounding - What's the difference?
looking | sounding |
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* 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
The action of the verb to sound .
* (John Lightfoot)
Emitting a sound.
sonorous
* Dryden
* Edgar Allan Poe
Test made with a probe or sonde.
* 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
A measured depth of water.
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.
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)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 .
Statistics
*sounding
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sownden, sounen, from (etyl) suner, (etyl) soner (modern sonner ), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep.
- And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day;
Adjective
(-)- The sounding bell woke me up.
- sounding words
- In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
- The sailor took a sounding every five minutes