What's the difference between looking and looting?

Looking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Look
  • (a.) Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
  • (n.) The act of one who looks; a glance.
  • (n.) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (2) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (4) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (5) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
  • (6) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
  • (7) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (8) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (9) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (10) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (11) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
  • (12) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
  • (13) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
  • (14) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (15) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (16) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (17) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (18) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (20) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.

Looting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loot

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (2) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
  • (3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
  • (4) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
  • (5) We want the painting back, with the admission that it was looted art,” he said.
  • (6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
  • (7) The primary need of the people is not western-style educational patronage, but an end to the arms trade and multinational looting of resources.
  • (8) Neither do we accept the owner could not have known it was looted.
  • (9) They just hear bullets and are on the loose running anywhere, looting, raping and doing anything.
  • (10) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
  • (11) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
  • (12) And while large stores were targeted, some smaller shops had not escaped the looting.
  • (13) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
  • (14) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
  • (15) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
  • (16) Photograph: Dr Oetker “This is an outstanding example of a private company doing the right thing with regards to Nazi-looted art and sets a standard of best practice in this field,” he said.
  • (17) Belgium was arguably the cruellest of all colonisers, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko looted the nation's wealth for 32 years, then a civil war sparked by genocide in neighbouring Rwanda left more than 4 million people dead and brought about the biggest peacekeeping operation in UN history.
  • (18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
  • (19) The looted art trove may help to shed light on one of the more obscure chapters in Nazi Germany's history.
  • (20) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.