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Spotting vs Cognisance - What's the difference?

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Spotting is a related term of cognisance.


As nouns the difference between spotting and cognisance

is that spotting is a spotted pattern while cognisance is .

As a verb spotting

is .

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

    Derived terms

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    cognisance

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 28
  • She has no real cognisance , dear lambkin, of anything at all.