surveying vs measuring

surveying and measuring both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
surveying	Yes	No	No	No
measuring	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, measuring is a hypernym of surveying; that is, measuring is a word with a broader meaning than surveying:

surveying: the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map
measuring: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

Other hypernyms of surveying include measure, measurement, mensuration.

surveying (noun)	measuring (noun)
the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map	the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule