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Seeing vs Spotting - What's the difference?

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Seeing is a related term of spotting.


As verbs the difference between seeing and spotting

is that seeing is while spotting is .

As nouns the difference between seeing and spotting

is that seeing is the action of the verb to see ; eyesight while spotting is a spotted pattern.

As an adjective seeing

is having vision; not blind.

As a conjunction seeing

is (slang) inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

seeing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
    Derived terms
    * all-seeing * seeing to * seeing-eye dog

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having vision; not blind.
    • Synonyms
    * sighted

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
  • (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
    • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

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    * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    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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