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Detecting vs Seeing - What's the difference?

detecting | seeing |

As verbs the difference between detecting and seeing

is that detecting is while seeing is .

As nouns the difference between detecting and seeing

is that detecting is an act of detection while seeing is the action of the verb to see ; eyesight.

As an adjective seeing is

having vision; not blind.

As a conjunction seeing is

(slang) inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

detecting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of detection.
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
    • Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings , scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.

    seeing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{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.}}
    Derived terms
    * all-seeing * seeing to * seeing-eye dog

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having vision; not blind.
    • Synonyms
    * sighted

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
  • (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
    • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

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    * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule