Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To employ one's sight, especially in a given direction or on a given object.
- intransitive verb To search.
- intransitive verb To turn one's glance or gaze.
- intransitive verb To turn one's attention; attend.
- intransitive verb To turn one's expectations.
- intransitive verb To seem or appear to be.
- intransitive verb To face in a specified direction.
- intransitive verb To turn one's eyes on.
- intransitive verb To convey by one's expression.
- intransitive verb To have an appearance of conformity with.
- intransitive verb To appear to be.
- noun The act or instance of looking.
- noun A gaze or glance expressive of something.
- noun Appearance or aspect.
- noun Physical appearance, especially when pleasing.
- noun A distinctive, unified manner of dress or fashion.
- idiom (look a gift horse in the mouth) To be critical or suspicious of something one has received without expense.
- idiom (alive/sharp) To act or respond quickly.
- idiom (on/upon) To regard with contempt or condescension.
- idiom (at/on) To regard with contempt or condescension.
- idiom (look forward to) To think of (a future event) with pleasurable, eager anticipation.
- idiom (look in on) To visit.
- idiom (look the other way) To deliberately overlook something.
- idiom (look up to) To admire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exercise the sense or faculty of vision; use the eyes in seeing; fix the sight upon some object, or upon some point or portion of space.
- Before a word or phrase signifying direction, manner, or purpose: as, look here; look there; he looked back; to look for something lost.
- Before a preposition governing the thing seen or an intervening object or medium: as, to
look at a house; to look over a wall or through a window; to look into a mirror or a book; to look upon the wine. - To afford a view or outlook; have a direction; face or be turned: usually with on, upon, to, or toward: as, the windows look toward the ocean; the house looks upon a narrow street.
- To keep watch; be careful; take heed; see to it: as, he looks after my luggage: used intensively in the ejaculatory phrases look out! look sharp!
- To seem to the view; have the appearance of being; appear: as, he looks like his brother; it looks as if it would rain; the patient looks better.
- To strive to seem; put on the appearance of being; assume to be.
- To exercise mental vision or observation (in a certain way); direct the mind or understanding; take notice: often with at.
- To have a prospect or anticipation; direct the mind expectantly; be in expectation of or with regard to something.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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Dont look at others..look at you and your country.
The Attack in Lahore and the Response Online - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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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*
rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2007
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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_.
The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 United States. Dept. of Defense
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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?
Chapter VI. Book IV 1917
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When he did not look around, she said, "Are you too busy to even _look_ at me?"
The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908
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And a dialogue like this would follow: "Oh, Arthur, look, look, _look_, at his little feet!"
The Judgment of Eve May Sinclair 1904
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… 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?
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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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!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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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.
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
mollusque commented on the word look
Lòók.
November 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word look
Why are you angry?
November 13, 2008
mollusque commented on the word look
I'm not angry, just diacritical.
November 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word look
Do fruit shop proprietors in other parts of the world do goofy things like draw eyeballs in the o's?
November 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word look
Oh, puns! The salt of Wordie.
November 13, 2008
sionnach commented on the word look
In my experience, fruit shop proprietors are too busy randomly distributing their greengrocers apostrophe's.
Look: turnip's!
November 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word look
I saw something at the grocery yesterday, so delightful that I wanted to buy it just to take a photo for Wordie. I will probably do.
November 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word look
*waiting anxiously for the delightful grocery item*
November 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word look
Now THAT is Wordie addiction.
November 13, 2008
frogapplause commented on the word look
Nipplefruit. Prolagus found some nipplefruit.
November 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word look
I found a fantastic grocer's apo'strophe.
November 13, 2008
kewpid commented on the word look
Maybe it's just a glottal stop?
November 13, 2008
plethora commented on the word look
Did you ever take that photo, Pro?
February 6, 2009
bilby commented on the word look
Hehe, you know I was thinking the same thing a few days ago but couldn't remember the word upon which Prolagus had left his photo promise.
February 6, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word look
Not yet! The grocer doesn't like my camera, so I have to wait. But in the meanwhile, enjoy this one.
February 6, 2009