Look

Definition: Look

Look

Noun

1. The expression on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face".

2. The act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him".

3. Physical appearance; "I don't like the looks of this place".

4. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason".

Verb

1. Perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!" "Look--a deer in the backyard!".

2. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "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; "How does she look?" "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery".

4. Search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!".

5. Face in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park".

6. Take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business".

7. Convey by one's expression; "She looked her devotion to me".

8. Look forward to the probably occurrence of: "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted".

9. Accord in appearance with; "You don't look your age!".

10. : have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!" "Depend on your family in times of crisis".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "look" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Look \Look\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Looked; present participle verb or noun Looking.]. (references)

Computing

Military & Defense

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

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Look

Attention

Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Look

Dutch (garlic, leek), German (lookahead), Pidgin English (looking).

Look, Chip, I've been waiting for you all my life (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

I want to look good naked (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Look at his sweater (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

I couldn't look at him. He might look right through the fear and the shame, right through to the truth (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Look for your information (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC)

Look away, baby, look away (Look Away; performing artist: Chicago)

I see forever when I look in your eyes (When I Look Into Your Eyes; performing artist: Firehouse)

Let me have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

I wish you'd look at me that way (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire. (references; author: unknown)

What we see is mainly what we look for. (references; author: unknown)

Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight. (references; author: unknown)

Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo. (references; author: unknown)

Look at Us Now (1974)

A Look at the World of SOYLENT GREEN (1973)

Look What's Going Around... and Around... and Around (1973)

Don't Look in the Basement! (1973)

£12 Look (1973)

THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT (performing artist: FRANK SINATRA)

Take A Look Around (performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) (performing artist: Phil Collins)

U Got The Look (performing artist: Prince)

The Look (performing artist: Roxette)

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

References

• New Look Group Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• First Look Media, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Renown Look Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (reference)

• The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers (reference)

• Genetics and Mental Retardation Syndromes: A New Look at Behavior and Interventions (reference)

• Retro Style: The '50's Look for Today's Home (reference)

• A New Look at Mercury Retrograde (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Quick Look Drug Book (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (reference)

• Don't Look Now (reference)

• Look Great Naked - Abs (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Look of Love (Sm) [SACD] (reference)

• Look What I Made Out of My Head (reference)

• Stop Look & Listen: The Less Familiar Dorsey (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Copitar Look Extra Electronic Zoom Binoculars (reference)

• Case Logic GCX24 PVC Look Game Case Wallet (Pearlized Blue/Black with Grey Trim) (reference)

• NETVANTA 2100 (NEW LOOK) (reference)

• Look It Up, Merriam-Webster (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau wields the trowel during the cornerstone laying for NCI's building 6 on June 24, 1939. Mrs. Luke Wilson, whose husband, a cancer victim, donated the land for the building, and Dr. Thomas Parron, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, look on. The PHS was then a part of the Treasury Department. See also ar000175. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Scientist is performing an amino acid analysis which is used to look at the detail of cellular molecules. Knowing the genetic code and the way it relates to proteins made by the body are tools to understand cancer cells. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Smoking might look cool in the movies, but in real life it stinks!. Credit: CDC.

HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it may look clean) that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A. Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children. Credit: CDC.

Scientists Look for Signs of Pollution in the Superhighway in the Sky. Credit: NASA.

Astronomers have obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism ... Credit: NASA.

A closer look at the Hubble telescope's most detailed image, the Hubble Deep Field, reveals ... Credit: NASA.

First direct look, in visible light, at a lone neutron star (RX J185635-3754). (Produced with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2, Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA.

Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA.

A Brown Pelican cruises close for a look at the photographer. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Whether they are herein made the tools of cunninger workmen, to pull down their own fabric, they were best look. (Second Treatise of Government)

If you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The word home made his father look on him with fresh complacency

But there was something in her look which silenced him.

Again it seemed to look upon him.

Look, said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold

When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to look with hatred on all around her.

To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot.

Why look you pale

You look out on the way back

I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A new look at old links. (references)

Then look to find your weight group. (references)

Look for products labeled low sodium. (references)

Business

Many local buyers look first for original parts. (references)

New Look is estimated to account for 3% of total womenswear sales. (references)

Prospects for the German advertisement market continue look positive. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

They approach persons who look like Haitians, including persons who have very dark complexions and fairly poor clothing. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Profits look certain to fall. (references)

Australia

There is no substitute for a first-hand look. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

Arafat ordered a board of inquiry to look into his death, but no findings had been released by year's end. (references)

Bangladesh

On December 29, the BNP Government formed its own judicial commission to look into political cases from the previous government. (references)

Benin

A commission within the Justice Ministry was assigned to look into nonpayment; however, no further action was taken by year's end. (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

Many leaders of religions, such as Christianity or Islam, look down on practitioners of traditional indigenous religions as pagans, practitioners of black magic or human sacrifice. (references)

Political Economy

Senegal

In March 2001, the Senegalese Government and the Casamance separatists signed a peace accord, but fighting continues as the two sides look for ways to implement the provisions of the accord. (references)

EGYPT

The business and investment communities look to the Egyptian authorities to revive economic growth through a comprehensive integrated government strategy to address key policy areas and reinvigorate the country's program of structural reform. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

Consumers usually look for U.S. standard markings when purchasing imported goods. (references)

Austria

Austrian consumers look for these marks the same way Americans look for the "UL" mark. (references)

Germany

German consumers look for these marks in much the same way as Americans look for the "UL" mark. (references)

Travel

Colombia

They understand the give-and-take of business, and look to negotiate business arrangements which will be of mutual advantage to both parties. (references)

Honduras

The U.S. is Honduras' main trading partner, and Hondurans generally look upon American citizens as reliable and trustworthy business partners. (references)

Djibouti

Another cultural difference is that if your local business partner does not look at you when you are speaking, it does not mean that you do not have his (her) attention. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Similarly a study by the NWFP directorate of primary education concluded that most girls in rural areas do not go to school because they have to look after the household while their mothers help in the fields. (references)

Greece

To ameliorate the situation, the GSES established two regional employment offices for women in Thessaloniki and Patras in 2000. It also continued to provide vocational training programs for unemployed women and programs to reinforce entrepreneurship, subsidies to women for setting up an enterprise, information and counseling to unemployed women, and it created childcare facilities to assist unemployed women to attend training courses and look for a job. (references)

Worker Rights

Albania

Many workers look for second jobs, which are difficult to find. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Look

Expressions using "look": a blank look ♦ a look full of meaning ♦ a look full of yearning ♦ a look of reproof ♦ a look of unbelief ♦ a telling look ♦ a yellow look ♦ admire look ♦ adoring look ♦ arch look ♦ assume a look of ♦ baffled look ♦ basilisk look ♦ black look ♦ blank look ♦ Cassius has a lean and hungry look ♦ cast a transient look at ♦ direct look ♦ disdainful look ♦ distant look ♦ do not look at me like that ♦ don't look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ fade out look ♦ faraway look ♦ fling smb. a look of contempt ♦ gallows look ♦ get a look ♦ give a look ♦ give a look at ♦ give a look full of hate ♦ give smb. a black look ♦ give smb. a jaundiced look ♦ give smb. a scathing look ♦ give us a look ♦ glacial look ♦ hangdog look ♦ hanging look ♦ hard look ♦ have a critical look at ♦ have a gallows look ♦ have a good look ♦ have a good look at ♦ have a hangdog look ♦ have a look ♦ have a look at ♦ have a quick look ♦ high look ♦ hunted look ♦ Interjection: beware! ware! take care! look out! fore! ♦ Interjection: look at home ♦ let him look to himself! ♦ look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ look a sight ♦ look about ♦ look about for ♦ look about for smth. ♦ look across ♦ look after ♦ look after babies ♦ look after number one ♦ look after of ♦ look after oneself ♦ look after the inner man ♦ look after the main chance ♦ look after yourself ♦ look again! ♦ look ahead ♦ look ahead! ♦ look alike ♦ look alive ♦ look alive! ♦ look all right ♦ look along ♦ look and feel ♦ look and see ♦ look angle ♦ look another way ♦ look around ♦ look as black as thunder ♦ look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth ♦ look as just out of a bandbox ♦ look askance ♦ look askance at ♦ look askance at a suggestion ♦ look askance at smb. ♦ look askance on ♦ look askant ♦ look askew at ♦ look at ♦ look at adoringly ♦ look at each other ♦ look at every penny ♦ look at him askance ♦ look at me! ♦ look at one other ♦ look at oneself ♦ look at oneself in the glass ♦ look at smb. askance ♦ look at smb. smth. ♦ look at the bright side ♦ look at with the eye of. Additional references.

Beginning with "look": look-after-your-own, look-ahead, look-alike, look-a-like, look-alikes, look-and-feel, look-and-say, look-angle, look-at-me-now, look-at-you, look-back, look-based, look-behind-you, look-down, look-downers-on-others, look-here-this-sort-of-thing-won't-do-at-all-you-know, look-in, look-nice, look-no-a-bit-like, look-no-hands, look-out, look-out point, look-out post, look-outs, look-over, look-see, look-terrific, look-that, look-through, look-till, look-up, look-up, look-ups.

Ending with "look": leather-look, new-look, wet-look.

Containing "look": aw-shucks-gee-look-what-happened-to-me-when-i-wasn't-trying, inter-look dormant period, second-look surgery.

Afrikaans

lyk (appear, appear to be, cadaver, corpse, seem), kyk na (consider, deem, look at, regard, view, watch), kyk (consider, deem, look at, regard, view, watch), besien (consider, deem, regard, see, view, watch), aspek (appearance, aspect, sight, view), air (appearance, aspect, sight, view), ag (account, accredit, acuity, advertence, advertency, ah, attention, believe, consider, deem, eight, esteem, oh, opine, ow, regard, think, think well of, view, watch, woe), aansig (appearance, aspect, sight, view), aansien (appearance, aspect, esteem, regard, respect, sight, view), aankyk (consider, deem, regard, view, watch), aanblik (appearance, aspect, sight, view). (various references)

Albanian

vështroj (eye, gaze round, look on, regard, see, sight, survey, take a look at, trace, watch), vështrim (eye, regard, sight, view), shoh nga (look over, look through), shoh (behold, catch a glimpse of, catch sight of, descry, eye, give a look, overlook, see, sight, view, witness), shikoj (eye, glance, glance over, keep an eye on, overlook, see, sight, take a gander, take a look at, view, watch), shikim (eye, eyesight, eyewink, regard, sight, view, vision), paraqitje e jashtme (affectation), pamje (air, aspect, face, landscape, likeness, make, mien, mode, outlook, outside, physiognomy, presence, prospect, rig, scene, scenery, semblance, shape, sight, spectacle, view, visage, vista), ngjaj (be like, look like, participate, resemble, take after), modë (fad, fashion, mode, rage, style, twig, vogue), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), kërkim (assertion, exploration, forage, inquiry, investigation, plea, pursuit, quest, research, rummage, scan, search), ja (behold, here, here are, here is, here you are, well), dukje (appearance, display, face, make, semblance), dukem si. (various references)

Arabic 

لحظة (glimpse, moment), ‏مظهر (air, appearance, aspect, exhibitory, exterior, face, figure, form, guise, manifestation, mien, phase, presentation, semblance, shape, show, showing, visage), ‏نظرة (blush, cast, catch sight, eye, gander, gaze, glimpse, manhole), ‏نظر بتركيز, ‏نظر (behold, consider, consideration, discernment, foresight, gaze, rumble, seeing, sight, theorize), ‏حدق (eye, gaze, stare), ‏تعبير (articulation, enunciation, expressing, expression, locution, manifestation, mien, mouth, phrase, statement, term, utterance, wording), ‏راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look after, look on, mind, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, quest, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate). (various references)

Asturian

mirar (to look at). (various references)

Aymara

uñtasiña (to look like), uñch'uquiña (to look at), thaqaña (to look for). (various references)

Basque

bilatu (look for to). (various references)

Bemba

ukulolesha pa (to look at). (various references)

Blackfoot

ssapi (to look at). (various references)

Breton

klask (to look for). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гледам (eye, gape, lamp, look at, look on, look out, look through, manage, mind, nurse, open, overlook, point, regard, see, see into, tend, view, watch), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), поглеждам (give a look, look in, peep, take a look at), поглед (blush, eye, eyewink, gaze, peek, regard, sight, view, vision), имам вид на (look like), израз (countenance, expression, locution, manifestation, phrase, voice), изражение (air, aspect, countenance, demeanor, demeanour, face), изглеждам (appear, seem), изглед (aspect, outlook, perspective, picture, prospect, view). (various references)

Catalan

veure (consider, deem, regard, see, to see, view, watch), mirar (consider, deem, regard, view, watch). (various references)

Cebuano

mosud-ong (to look at). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma atan (to look at). (various references)

Chinese 

神色 (expression). (various references)

Czech

pohled (greeting card, postcard, regard, sight, slant, spectacle, view), dívat se (regard). (various references)

Danish

se ud (appear), se på (consider, deem, look at, regard, view, watch), blik (sheet metal, tin, tin plate), betragte (consider, deem, look at, regard, view, watch). (various references)

Dutch

er uitzien (appear). (various references)

Esperanto

rigardo, rigardi (consider, deem, look at, regard, view, watch), jen (behold, here are, here is, there), aspekti (appear). (various references)

Faeroese

leita eftir (seek), líta at (consider, deem, regard, view, watch), síggja út (appear), sært tú (behold, here are, here is, here you are), hyggja at (consider, deem, regard, view, watch), hetta var (behold, here are, here is, here you are), hetta er (behold, here are, here is, here you are), her er (behold, here are, here is, here you are), eygfara (consider, contemplate, deem, envisage, look at, regard, view, watch). (various references)

Farsi 

نگاه کردن (Eye, Regard, See), نگاه (Glance, Regard), نگریستن (Regard), نظر (Advice, Discretion, Esteem, Opinion, Regard, Shim, Sight, Slant, Thought, Verdict, View, Viewpoint), چشم رابکاربردن , قیافه (Countenance, Expression, Gesture, Leer, Mien, Semblance, Sight), وانمودکردن (Affect, Assume, Dissemble, Fake, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Sham, Simulate), جستجوکردن (Attempt, Comb, Fish, Grub, Mouse, Quest, Ransack, Scour, Search, Seek, Sick), ظاهرشدن (Out, Seem, Spring), ظاهر (Apparent, Appearance, Aspect, External, Face, Garb, Guise, Habit, Hue, Mien, Ostensible, Outside, Rind, Surface), دیدن (Behold, Coneive, Distinguish, Eye, Notice, Observe, Perceive, See, Seeing, Sight, Twig, View, Vision), بنظرامدن مراقب بودن . (various references)

Finnish

katsella (be looking on, consider, deem, look on, regard, view, watch). (various references)

French

regarder (look at), regard (to look), aspect, allure. (various references)

Frisian

oansjen (appearance, aspect, exterior, sight, to look at, view), gesicht (appearance, aspect, exterior, face, sight, view), besjen (consider, deem, regard, to sightsee, view, watch), aspekt (appearance, aspect, sight, view), achtsje (account, consider, deem, opine, regard, think, view, watch), achtenearje (account, consider, deem, opine, regard, think, view, watch). (various references)

German

schauen (behold, consider, deem, glance, peer, regard, see, see about, view, watch), Blick (eyes, gaze, glance, glimpse, outlook, sight, squint, stare, view, vista), sehen</