different between beholding vs spotting

English

Verb

beholding

1. present participle of behold

Adjective

beholding (comparative more beholding, superlative most beholding)

1. Obsolete form of beholden.
   • 1612, Shakespeare, Henry VIII, V, 5

     I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,

     And your good brethren, I am much beholding;

     I have received much honour by your presence,

     And ye shall find me thankful.

   • 1556, Raphe Robynson (More's Utopia)

     I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.

   • So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children.

Noun

beholding (plural beholdings)

1. The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.
   • a. 1847, Robert Traill, a sermon

     But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.

English

Verb

spotting

1. present participle of spot

Noun

spotting (plural spottings)

1. A spotted pattern.
   • 1954, Thomas H. Everett, The American Gardener's Book of Bulbs (page 161)

     Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.

2. The act of spotting or sighting something.
   • 2009, Marine Corps (US), Close Air Support and the Battle for Khe Sanh (page 100)

     Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts […]

Derived terms

• aircraft spotting
• bus spotting
• trainspotting

Anagrams

• pottings