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- 1 Pay attention.
"Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely."
- 1 A surname transferred from the given name.
- 2 A surname from Chinese.
- 1 The action of looking; an attempt to see.
"Let’s have a look under the hood of the car."
- 2 the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look wordnet
- 3 Physical appearance, visual impression. often, plural
"She got her mother’s looks."
- 4 physical appearance wordnet
- 5 A facial expression.
"He gave me a dirty look."
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- 6 the feelings expressed on a person's face wordnet
- 7 the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people wordnet
- 1 To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.; As an intransitive verb, often with "at". intransitive
"They kept looking at me."
- 2 to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group wordnet
- 3 To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.; As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object. colloquial, transitive
"Look what you did to him!"
- 4 have faith or confidence in wordnet
- 5 To appear, to seem.
"It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like rain [is coming]."
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- 6 look forward to the probable occurrence of wordnet
- 7 To give an appearance of being. copulative
"That painting looks nice."
- 8 convey by one's expression wordnet
- 9 To search for, to try to find. intransitive, often
- 10 perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look wordnet
- 11 To face or present a view.
"The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush."
- 12 give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect wordnet
- 13 To expect or anticipate.
"I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival."
- 14 search or seek wordnet
- 15 To express or manifest by a look. transitive
"Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,"
- 16 take charge of or deal with wordnet
- 17 To make sure of, to see to. often, transitive
""Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.[…]"
- 18 accord in appearance with wordnet
- 19 To show oneself in looking. dated, figuratively, sometimes
"Look out of the window [i.e. lean out] while I speak to you."
- 20 be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to wordnet
- 21 To check, to make sure (of something). archaic, dialectal, transitive
"Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen."
- 22 To look at; to turn the eyes toward. obsolete, transitive
"Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now,[…]."
- 23 To seek; to search for. obsolete, transitive
"c. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet, Looking my love, I go from place to place, Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind; And seek each where, where last I saw her face, Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind."
- 24 To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence. obsolete, transitive
"to look down opposition"
- 25 To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
"The fastball caught him looking."
Etymology
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")).
From Luke (“a given name”).
From Cantonese 陸 /陆 (luk⁶, “a surname”).
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