What's the difference between looking and passant?
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.
Passant
Definition:
(v. i.) Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
(v. i.) Curs/ry, careless.
(v. i.) Surpassing; excelling.
(v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
(2) Bouton terminals (1.0-2.0 microns) are of both the en passant and end terminal varieties.
(3) ROHDE axons make small "en passant" synapses with other neuronal processes.
(4) Terminal boutons within the A-laminae were nearly all en passant, which gave the axons a beaded appearance.
(5) En passant and single or clustered groups of terminal boutons arose from preterminal branches of these arbors.
(6) A second, delicate thin (type II) fiber system provided with numerous and passant varicosities showed a much more restricted laminar innervation pattern and appeared to originate from areas in MS-VDB which are rich in AChE-positive neurons.
(7) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
(8) Sixty per cent of the synapses are formed by boutons en passant and the remainder by the terminal swellings of spine-like axonal appendages, boutons terminaux.
(9) The findings demonstrate that the nigral boutons are of medium-sized to large, with the majority being of the en passant type.
(10) The end terminals are large bulbs, usually preceded by two to three equally large en passant enlargements.
(11) The postsynaptic elements to the axon terminals were dendrites of small to medium size, which received "en passant" synaptic contacts in extraglomerular regions of the geniculate neuropil by the terminals distributed in series.
(12) P. vulgaris leucoagglutinin-labeled axons within laminae I and II exhibited boutons en passant and terminaux; many of these axons also terminated or were collaterals of axons that terminated in deeper dorsal horn laminae.
(13) Each band appears composed of numerous, thin and weakly varicose fibers that make only en passant type of contact with pallidal cell bodies rostrally, but form a dense field of woolly fibers caudally.
(14) The low number of en passant varicosities associated with the ventral root axonal aborizations suggests that these axons do not synapse with all available targets and that the rules governing synaptic specificity during development may apply during regeneration in the adult frog spinal cord.
(15) They gave rise to a number of circumscribed, highly branched arbors with many boutons of the terminal and en passant types.
(16) All of these projection axons travel in the trapezoid body and their terminals make, primarily, en passant endings upon their targets.
(17) The collaterals, while running medially, gave rise to fine terminal branches with en passant boutons in the SVN, and further coursing caudally, they entered the rostral part of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN).
(18) Several efferents showed extensive branching beneath the inner hair cells which might represent en passant synapses with other neuronal elements.
(19) Electron microscopic examination confirmed that nearly all of the varicosities observed in the light microscope contained synaptic vesicles and represented either terminal boutons or boutons en passant.
(20) Corticotectal axon arbors became more specialized in the first 8 weeks after birth; both en passant and terminal swellings increased in diameter, and terminal swellings increased in number, although the total number of swellings per unit length of axon remained relatively stable.