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Surveying vs Looking - What's the difference?

surveying | looking |

As nouns the difference between surveying and looking

is that surveying is the science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them while looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.

As verbs the difference between surveying and looking

is that surveying is while looking is .

surveying

English

(wikipedia surveying)

Noun

  • The science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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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