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verb
(past & past part. looked; pres. part. looking)
1.
Perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards.  "Look at your child!" , "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
2.
Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.  Synonyms: appear, seem.  "This appears to be a very difficult problem" , "This project looks fishy" , "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"
3.
Have a certain outward or facial expression.  "The child looks unhappy" , "She looked pale after the surgery"
4.
Search or seek.  Synonym: search.  "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
5.
Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.  Synonyms: face, front.  "My backyard look onto the pond" , "The building faces the park"  Antonym: back.
6.
Take charge of or deal with.  Synonyms: attend, see, take care.  "I must attend to this matter" , "She took care of this business"
7.
Convey by one's expression.
8.
Look forward to the probable occurrence of.  Synonyms: await, expect, wait.  "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"
9.
Accord in appearance with.
10.
Have faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon.  "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
noun
1.
The feelings expressed on a person's face.  Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression.  "A look of triumph" , "An angry face"
2.
The act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually.  Synonyms: looking, looking at.  "His look was fixed on her eyes" , "He gave it a good looking at" , "His camera does his looking for him"
3.
Physical appearance.
4.
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.  Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone.  "A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" , "It had the smell of treason"



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"Look" Quotes from Famous Books



... an extenuating look. "It was some time ago, you see," he said; and then, passing it off, "There are as many as ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... now become her habit of life, was more of a practical necessity than ever. Nohant, as already mentioned, barely repaid the owner the expenses of keeping it up. Madame Sand, who desired to be liberal besides, to travel occasionally, to gratify little artistic fancies as they arose, must look to her literary work ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas
... among them would have known that he was travelling two miles a day backward unless he had lifted his eyes from the track in which he was plodding. It is not only going backward that the plain practical workman is liable to, if he will not look up and look around; he may go forward to ends he little dreams of. It is a simple business for a mason to build up a niche in a wall; but what if, a hundred years afterwards when the wall is torn down, ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... fixed up somewhere," replied Tom, with a rueful look at himself—his hands, his torn clothes, and his general dilapidated appearance. "But I don't want to lose any time. I'm afraid something ...
— Tom Swift and his War Tank - or, Doing his Bit for Uncle Sam • Victor Appleton
... tones, "you look to be true and kind. He is my uncle, the brother of my father, and my only relative. He loved my mother, and he hates me because I am like her. He has made my life one long terror. I am afraid of his very looks, and never before dared to disobey him. But to-night he would have married ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry


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