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Watching vs Inspection - What's the difference?

watching | inspection | Related terms |

Watching is a related term of inspection.


As nouns the difference between watching and inspection

is that watching is the act of one who watches while inspection is act of examining something, often closely.

As a verb watching

is .

watching

English

Verb

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  • *{{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.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
    • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching

    inspection

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enspection * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of examining something, often closely.
    • Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
  • Organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
    • The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.

    Synonyms

    * examination * scrutiny

    Related terms

    * inspect * inspector

    Anagrams

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