different between watching vs onlooking

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

watching

1. present participle of watch

Noun

watching (plural watchings)

1. The act of one who watches.
   • 1819, John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)

     What toils and pains; what cares and watchings; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

Hyponyms

• whale watching

Derived terms

• Sun-watching

English

Etymology

From on- +? looking.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nl?k??/

Adjective

onlooking (comparative more onlooking, superlative most onlooking)

1. That is looking on; watching, observing.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 60:

     A second character dressed as a bishop, gesturing towards the onlooking Henry VII, compared him with the costumed deity […].

Anagrams

• looking on