TO LOOK FOR

Definition: TO LOOK FOR

TO LOOK FOR

1. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. ``Look now for no enchanting voice.'' --Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO LOOK FOR

I can tell you the guy sitting at the bar weighs two hundred fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself, I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab of the gray truck outside, and I know that at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half a mile before my hands start shaking. (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

I like to look for things no one else catches. (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le; writing credit: Guillaume Laurant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

Don't know, but I guess it never has to look for a can opener. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

We go to India to look for nukes. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

You come in to look for a King ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba)

I wanted to look for you (Let Her Cry; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish)

What to look for, in my new beau. (I'm Right here; performing artist: Samantha Mumba)

Anyone who has time to look for a four-leaf clover needs to find one. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Build It Right!: What to Look for in Your New Home (reference)

• He's Hot, She's Hot: What to Look for in the Opposite Sex (reference)

• What To Look For In Warehouse Management System Software, WMS (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Avoiding Option Trading Traps - What To Look For and Strategies for Success (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spotter using large binoculars to look for signs of tuna. Credit: Fisheries.

Veterinary explaining where to look for bot fly eggs in sanitation program for horses. Fremont County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

'Tis the season to look for the union label : if union families don't, who will?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But the state of mankind is not so miserable that they are not capable of using this remedy, till it be too late to look for any. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I went down on my hands and knees to look for him, for I felt very curious to know how young Frogs ought to be amused.

I decide to look for Magrathea, and it all just happens.

At the command of her husband, she had gone to look for her.

Fearing to lose all, he raised himself suddenly on his elbow to look for paper and pencil.

He settled in Hooverville and he scoured the countryside for work, and the little money he had went for gasoline to look for work.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Special stains may be required to look for some parasites. (references)

Researchers continue to look for more effective treatments. (references)

It is also used to look for early signs of cancer in the colon and rectum. (references)

Business

Because of this, end-users have begun to look for medium-quality products with longer durability. (references)

These disgruntled End-users have now begun to look for quality in products that also offer durability. (references)

Many people lack basic business skills or principles such as the ability to draw up a business plan or where to look for venture capital. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

There are also a few local franchise operations which have begun to look for franchisees abroad. (references)

India

One way of identifying suitable representatives is to look for distributors of Complementary products. (references)

Poland

Polish trade fairs, which have become more and more specific in scope, are a good place to look for possible distributors. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

According to a 1999 directive from Prime Minister Ecevit, public prosecutors are required to make unscheduled inspections of places of detention to look for torture and other maltreatment, and to report to the Prime Minister the results of their inspections. (references)

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Human Rights Committee reported that police carried out raids on private homes in the Santo Domingo neighborhoods of Capotillo, Gualey, Guandules, Guachupita, Los Alcarrizos, and La Zurza; police allegedly went into homes without search warrants to look for delinquents. (references)

Trade

Latvia

The increasing competition on the domestic market has provided a powerful incentive for the banking sector to consolidate; and the uncertain future has forced Latvian banks to look for experienced western business partners, particularly Nordic banks. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

Traffickers were known to enter nightclubs or other youth gathering places to look for recruits. (references)

China

In some cities, signs in bus and train stations warn women of potential dangers; police in the stations have been trained to look for women who may be traveling against their The Government also established a national telephone hot line on abduction, as well as a national databank on victims and traffickers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Aymara

thaqaña. (various references)

Breton

klask. (various references)

Chinese 

�'�尋 (to search for), 找 (to call on, to find, to return, to seek, to try to find), 求 (to beseech, to demand, to request, to seek), 尋訪 (to inquire after), 尋�" , 尋找 (to seek), 尋求 (to seek), 尋 (to search, to seek). (various references)

German

suchen (find, Hunt, look, look for, look out for, lookup, probe, quest, quests, search, search about, search around, seek, seek after, sought, strive, to hunt, to search, try, woo). (various references)

Hungarian

keres (ask after, ask for, feel, got, hunt for, look for, look out, quest, search, seek after, to addle, to earn, to get, to mouse, to pick up, to take five hundred dollars a week). (various references)

Indonesian

mencari-cari (look for thoroughly, pretend to look for). (various references)

Inuktitut

qiniqtuq. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捜す (to search, to seek). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まちもうける (to anticipate, to expect, to look forward to, to wait for), さがす (to search, to seek), さぐる (to search, to sound out), あさる (to fish for). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ooklay orfay

Spanish

buscar (ferret, fetch, forage for, get, go after, home in on, Hunt, hunt for, hunt out, hunt up, investigate, lay hold of, look, look for, look out, look out for, look round, look up, pick, pick up, prospect for, pursue, quest, scout for, scrounge around for, search, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, take, turn up). (various references)

Tahitian

ma'imi. (various references)

exspecto. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: floor, kloof.

-5 letters: folk, fool, foot, fork, fort, kolo, koto, loft, loof, look, loot, rolf, roof, rook, root, rotl, roto, took, tool, toro.

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