different between looming vs approaching

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?m??

Verb

looming

1. present participle of loom

Noun

looming (plural loomings)

1. The condition of something that looms or towers.
   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets No. 5, Stump-Orator

     But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, […]

Estonian

Noun

looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)

1. creative work

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?o?t???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???t???/
• Rhymes: -??t???

Adjective

approaching (not comparable)

1. That approaches or approach.

   the approaching armies

Translations

Adverb

approaching (not comparable)

1. Nearly.
   • 2011 March 16, New Scientist, Opinion: There's more to fear from nature than nuclear power,

     The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?

Translations

Verb

approaching

1. present participle of approach

   The army was approaching from the north.

Noun

approaching (plural approachings)

1. The act of coming closer; an approach.

Translations

References

• approaching at OneLook Dictionary Search
• approaching in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.