What's the difference between looking and sounding?

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.

Sounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sound
  • (a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
  • (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
  • (n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
  • (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
  • (3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (4) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (5) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
  • (6) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (7) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
  • (8) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (9) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
  • (10) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
  • (11) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
  • (12) Not making a sound for 24 hours pretty nearly killed me.
  • (13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
  • (15) Endogenous sound-induced (binaural) inhibition which is suggested to be GABA-mediated is also significantly reduced in IC neurons of the GEPR.
  • (16) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (17) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (18) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
  • (19) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
  • (20) Digital respirosonography provides an easy way to assess lung sound amplitudes, frequencies and timing over several breaths.