look
IPA: ɫˈʊk
noun
- The action of looking; an attempt to see.
- (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- A facial expression.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A surname from Chinese.
verb
- To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- (intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- (transitive, colloquial) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- To appear, to seem.
- (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
- (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
- To face or present a view.
- To expect or anticipate.
- (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
- (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
- (dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking.
- (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To check, to make sure (of something).
- (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
- (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
- (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
- (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
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Examples of "look" in Sentences
- He looks extremely resourceful on the show.
- The picture shows a figure looks like hieroglyph.
- See who signed it and then look at the letterhead.
- Dont look at others..look at you and your country.
- Same looking watches are juxtaposed in the show window.
- I look forward to seeing the Troll, and the sooner the better.
- Have a look at the history to see the detail of the alteration.
- A simple look at the comic and the film shows the claim untrue.
- I shows a crisp look and detail of the grasshopper on the bottle.
- His minions searched the entire continent looking for the artifact.
- I'll have to look over the list again to see which looks most fetching.
- When he did not look around, she said, "Are you too busy to even _look_ at me?"
- And a dialogue like this would follow: "Oh, Arthur, look, look, _look_, at his little feet!"
- There are some of you to whom it comes muffled in the mists of doubt; but I beseech you all, look at the Cross, _look at the Cross!
- The Patriarch of the family got a look on his face still have a hard time explaining that look~ sort of like deer-in-the-headlights, but not quite.
- Do but look, she said, after going to and fro once or twice, and again bringing the old gentleman to the place; look how they have treated him?
- He has got to be the best example of a guy that doesn't look exactly THAT hot, but exudes total sexiness and downright charm. * bites lip with pensive look*
- It is good, also, to look the part, not only because of its effect on others, but because from out of the effort made to _look it_, one may in time come _to be it_.
- Ulysses says, 'do not give all good things to all men, and often a man is made unfair to look upon, but over his ill favour they fling, like a garland, a power of lovely speech, and the people delight to _look_ on him.
- … And are we not returning to precisely the same thing, we dare-devils of intellect who have scaled the highest and most dangerous pinnacles of present thought, in order to look around us from that height, in order to _look down_ from that height?
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