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Looking

Definition: Looking

Looking

Adjective

1. Appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk".

Noun

1. 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".

2. The act of searching visually.

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

Date "looking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Looking

DomainDefinition

Satire

LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms: Looking

Synonyms: sounding (adj), look (n), looking at (n), looking for (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Looking

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dearness

Phrase: prices looking up; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; le cout en ote le gout; vel prece vel pretio; too high a price to pay, not worth it.

Expectation

Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to.

Hope

Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored.

The Past

Retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory. -- originally - preterition; priority; --

Looking back; Verb: retrospective, retroactive; archaeological; n.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Looking

English words defined with "looking": looking at, looking for. (references)
Specialty definitions using "looking": Devil looking Over LincolnLOOKING AS IF ONE COULD NOT HELP IT, Looking Back. (references)
Etymologies containing "looking": look. (references)

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Modern Usage: Looking

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If you're looking for female companionship, we can make arrangements that'll insure total privacy and-- (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Looking forward to it. (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Do you just want to lose weight, or are you looking to increase strength and flexibility as well (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

How could you be looking over your documents, if they're in your briefcase (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.)

Lyrics

I'm looking for a thug that'll kill for Brat (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Looking for a brand new day (Looking For A Place To Land; performing artist: Dakota Moon)

What I'm looking for ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"; performing artist: U2)

And you're looking for the answer in her eyes (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC)

Your beautiful eyes looking deep into mine (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

Clever

Never do wrong when people are looking. (references; author: Mark Twain)

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track. (references; author: unknown)

The church is looking for better methods. God is looking for better men. (references; author: unknown)

No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown)

No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1974)

Looking for Me (1970)

The Looking Glass War (1969)

Looking for Mushrooms (1967)

Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)

Song Titles

Looking For A New Love (performing artist: Jody Watley)

Looking Through Patient Eyes (performing artist: P.M. Dawn)

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (performing artist: U2)

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

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Commercial Usage: Looking

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Best of Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass/the Hunting of the Snark/a Tangled Tale/Phantasmagoria/Nonsense from Letter (reference)

  • The Collected Stories of Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass/Phantasmagoria (reference)

  • Looking at Totem Poles (reference)

  • Looking Forward: Life in the Twentieth Century As Predicted in the Pages of American Magazines from 1895 to 1905. (reference)

  • Your Best Face: Looking Your Best Without Plastic Surgery (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Edward Burns Box Set - The Brothers McMullen, She's The One, No Looking Back (reference)

  • Farscape Season 1, Vol. 9 - Through the Looking Glass / A Bug's Life (reference)

  • Looking for Richard (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Looking

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Photo Album: Looking

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Shows poster with an artistically rendered profile of a woman looking toward small sword with slogans: "Cancer In Its Early Stages Is Curable" and "American Society For The Control Of Cancer.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The breast of a black woman is exposed and highlighted. Some scoring is visible on the breast below the nipple marking the tumor area. Surgeons are visible looking over the patient examining the patient. They will mark and place tubes for later implantation of radioactive iridium seeds. Wider view is also available. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

People looking at AIDS quilt. Credit: CDC.

In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States. This field technician is looking for larvae in standing water containers. Credit: CDC.

Looking far away and far back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has found some ... Credit: NASA.

Looking like a colorful holiday card, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a ... Credit: NASA.

Kassa Inlet looking to the north. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking into the crater of Mt. Erebus The view from a helicopter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from a small boat at mid-span looking to the north. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Alcatraz Island, the Oakland Bay Bridge, and the San Francisco skyline as seen from a small boat looking south. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Looking
 

"Looking into the glass" by Yew Leong
Commentary: "A wine glass taken at the beach near E&O, penang."
"Looking Beagle" by Justin Waskovich
Commentary: "Beagle stares into the sunset."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Looking

AuthorQuotation

Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Cierva

In aeronautics one finds new things only by looking for them.

Diogenes The Cynic

I am looking for an honest man.

Hitopadesa

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Plato

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Richard Whately

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Robert Browning

'Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Looking

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Had but this one thing been well considered, without looking any deeper into the matter, it might perhaps have kept men from running into those gross mistakes, they have made, about this power of parents; which, however it might, without any great harshness, bear the name of absolute dominion, and regal authority, when under the title of paternal power it seemed appropriated to the father, would yet have founded but oddly, and in the very name shewn the absurdity, if this supposed absolute power over children had been called parental; and thereby have discovered, that it belonged to the mother too: for it will but very ill serve the turn of those men, who contend so much for the absolute power and authority of the fatherhood, as they call it, that the mother should have any share in it; and it would have but ill supported the monarchy they contend for, when by the very name it appeared, that that fundamental authority, from whence they would derive their government of a single person only, was not placed in one, but two persons jointly. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Looking

TitleAuthorQuote

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The proof that the little prince existed is that he laughed, and tha the was looking for a sheep

Emma

Austen, Jane

She was still looking at him with the most speaking amazement

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

I returned the book, looking, I suppose, a little blank, as the lady laughed merrily at my discomfiture

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, who had a book before him.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

All this time, Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He was dressed in a blouse which was in part a capote, was restless and daring, looking behind and before as he went

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Simon Moonan told him not to because the prefect was looking.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma walked to the door and stood looking out.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Whereupon the huge creature trod short, and looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the ground

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Looking

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

It involves looking directly at the larynx. (references)

It may seem as though they are looking through a tunnel. (references)

They aren’t looking for just one cause for all cases of autism. (references)

Business

Delta reported it was looking for similar gains. (references)

They must be looking at local partnership and representation. (references)

Tricon will be looking to develop KFC over the next few years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

Police claimed that they were looking for criminals and illegal weapons, but legal rights groups asserted that it was a measure designed to discourage or limit opposition campaigning in the electoral areas. (references)

South Africa

The investigation examined selected publications over a limited period, looking at the problem of subliminal racism and the disproportionate representation of whites in media ownership and newsroom staffing. (references)

Slovak Republic

The STV news program promised to hire a Roma reporter and claimed that they had been looking actively for members of the Roma minority to work as newscasters; however, they had not hired a Roma by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Norway

It is looking, however to get more for its money. (references)

Turkey

Several Turkish companies are already looking for partners. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi businessmen are still looking for good U.S. franchisers. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

Police sources later said they had been looking for weapons. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Newspapers frequently published the appeals of families looking for their children or relatives. (references)

Ghana

Security forces conducted a number of searches of the homes of opposition party members, ostensibly looking for illegal arms caches or evidence of corrupt activities. (references)

Political Economy

Panama

With over 100,000 adherents, the Arnulfistas have attracted people looking for jobs or favors from the government. (references)

ALGERIA

Algeria offers significant opportunities to U.S. firms with a long-term perspective looking to export, to invest, or to form joint ventures. (references)

BOLIVIA

Unions are not free from influence by political parties, but organized labor is increasingly looking outside the established party structure to represent its interests. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

The textile manufacturers association is currently looking into the possibility of applying ISO 14000 standards to its industry. (references)

Argentina

The program was designed for companies looking to improve competitiveness by either opening a new manufacturing plant or expanding an existing one. (references)

Czech Rep

The Czech government is looking to improve the sector's performance through further bank privatization, stricter bank oversight and simplified bankruptcy laws. (references)

Travel

Belgium

Americans looking for jobs in Belgium are almost never issued working permits. (references)

Spain

The thieves typically divert the driver's attention by pointing out a mechanical problem then steal items from the vehicle while the driver is looking away. (references)

Spain

The weather in the northern coastal regions (looking onto the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay) is temperate and generally rainy throughout the year, and temperatures are neither very low in winter nor very high in summer. (references)

Women

Peru

The victims also have accused judges of looking more favorably on rape victims who were virgins prior to the rape and of believing that a woman who was raped must have enticed her attacker. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

In March Henriette Lagou, Yai's replacement as Minister of Family, Women, and Children's Affairs, reported that women looking for help with family problems, such as forced marriage and domestic violence, approached the committee every day; a few committee members visited the families to mediate. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue.

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

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Spoken Usage: Looking

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

If you're looking for empirical truth on TV, you're watching the wrong kinescope.

House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner

Absolutely, and there's a bipartisan commission that's looking into that. Give them until January, and then the heads can start rolling.

Jack Hanna

Right. Right. Right. They look like that, but the tegu is an animal that again, lives a lot of its life looking for eggs and birds.

Joe Viterelli

Oh, well, I had a couple of beer joints that I sold in New York and I came out here and I was looking around.

Phyllis Diller

Short of breathness. Short breath. I am short of breath. But right now, I'm fine because I'm looking at you.

Rush Limbaugh

Now we're looking for new ways of being corrupted thanks to the Democrats on the left side of the aisle.

Tim McGraw

My mother used to keep Christmas presents in her closet. I was going through the closet looking for Christmas presents. I ran across my birth certificate. That's how I found out.

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

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Speeches: Looking

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Madison

1809-1817I find, from looking into the amendments proposed by the state conventions, that several are particularly anxious that it should be declared in the constitution, that the powers not therein delegated, should be reserved to the several states.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829Standing at this point of time, looking back to that generation which has gone by and forward to that which is advancing, we may at once indulge in grateful exultation and in cheering hope.

Martin van Buren

1837-1841But to me, my fellow-citizens, looking forward to the far-distant future with ardent prayers and confiding hopes, this retrospect presents a ground for still deeper delight.

Ulysses S. Grant

1869-1877In future, while I hold my present office, the subject of acquisition of territory must have the support of the people before I will recommend any proposition looking to such acquisition.

William H. Taft

1909-1913On the other hand, the administration is pledged to legislation looking to a proper federal supervision and restriction to prevent excessive issues of bonds and stock by companies owning and operating interstate commerce railroads.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953We shall also continue negotiations looking to the full and equitable development of facilities for transportation and communications among nations.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Too many unemployed are still looking for the blessings of prosperity.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989America is back, standing tall, looking to the eighties with courage, confidence, and hope.

George Bush

1989-1993If anyone tells you America's best days are behind her, they're looking the wrong way.

George W. Bush

2001-2005When I was looking for somebody to run the Department of Education, I wasn't interested in anybody who was good on the theory.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Looking

"Looking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.60% of the time. "Looking" is used about 25,811 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)98.6%25,450328
Adjective (general or positive)1.4%36114,936
                    Total100.00%25,811N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Looking

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "looking".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
HalhulN/ABiblical

Looking for grief

MiklothN/ABiblical

Looking downward

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Looking

Expressions using "looking": be looking forward be never tired of looking be never tired of looking at best looking girl common looking forward looking infra red good looking he is looking homicidal i am looking for a room last looking Lewis Carroll's looking glass looking after looking at looking at it as a whole looking back looking for looking for advice looking forward looking forward to looking glass looking glass tree looking through looking up poor looking savage looking seedy looking shabby looking shady looking customer side looking airborne radar tell by looking vertical looking radar way of looking at things you are looking very well!. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "looking": looking-after, looking-at-the-pictures, looking-back, looking-elsewhere, Looking-glass, looking-glass plant, looking-glasses, looking-tired.

Ending with "looking": amiable-looking, anxious-looking, archaic-looking, aristocratic-looking, athletic-looking, attractive-looking, awkward-looking, battered-looking, benign-looking, best-looking, capable-looking, cheap-looking, clear-looking, comfortable-looking, dangerous-looking, dead-looking, decent-looking, delicate-looking, delicious-looking, depressed-looking, devastating-looking, different-looking, dirty-looking, distinguished-looking, dubious-looking, dull-looking, dusty-looking, efficient-looking, elderly-looking, english-looking, exhausted-looking, expensive-looking, fabulous-looking, familiar-looking, fearsome-looking, ferocious-looking, fierce-looking, fit-looking, foreign-looking, fragile-looking, frail-looking, great-looking, grim-looking, guilty-looking, harassed-looking, hard-looking, harmless-looking, healthy-looking, heavy-looking, impressive-looking, innocent-looking, innocuous-looking, intelligent-looking, interesting-looking, inward-looking, jolly-looking, kindly-looking, likely-looking, lugubrious-looking, mean-looking, modern-looking, mournful-looking, nasty-looking, natural-looking, nervous-looking, new-looking, nice-looking, normal-looking, odd-looking, official-looking, old-looking, ordinary-looking, outward-looking, over-looking, plain-looking, pleasant-looking, powerful-looking, professional-looking, promising-looking, prosperous-looking, realistic-looking, re-looking, respectable-looking, rough-looking, sad-looking, serious-looking, severe-looking, similar-looking, sinister-looking, slick-looking, soft-looking, solid-looking, sophisticated-looking, stern-looking, strange-looking, strong-looking, studious-looking, substantial-looking, suspicious-looking, tired-looking, tough-looking, traditional-looking, ugly-looking, uncomfortable-looking, unusual-looking, venerable-looking, vicious-looking, villainous-looking, weary-looking, weird-looking, wicked-looking, wild-looking, worried-looking, young-looking, youthful-looking.

Containing "looking": be good-looking in a slick way, good-looking girl, good-looking woman, good-looking-the, nice-looking girl, nice-looking young man, through-the-looking-glass.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Looking

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

married but looking

332

body jewelry looking our piercing

55

looking

279

black woman looking for white man

52

looking glass

239

older woman looking for younger man

48

front in looking porch

236

buyer database dream home looking our search their

44

woman looking for man

225

always customer looking our we

44

married and looking

149

carpet cleaning i in looking m seattle service

41

good looking

138

married woman looking for man

40

woman looking for sex

134

carpet cleaning denver i in looking m service

39

through the looking glass

95

front in lone looking porch star

39

good looking girl

80

married woman looking

39

funny looking people

77

atlanta carpet cleaning i in looking m service

38

good looking woman

74

front in lone looking lyrics porch star

37

front in looking lyrics porch

69

alice through looking glass

33

good looking man

67

looking your best

33

glass looking theater

67

church looking pastor

29

looking younger

64

front in lone looking lyrics porch single star version

29

looking up

63

currently difficulty experiencing looking may might nee page site technical unavailable web

28

good looking guy

60

the looking glass self

25

married woman looking for sex

59

aloha great looking scrub top

25

looking up skirt

56

single looking

24
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Looking

Language Translations for "looking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

soek (am looking for, look, look for, seek). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shpresë (expectance, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, looking for, looking forward, prospect, resort), pasqyrë (digest, glass, looking glass, mirror, reflector, review, revue), nuk lodhem të shikoj (be never tired of looking), 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, 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), interesant (curiously, entertaining, enthralling, good looking, interesting, interestingly, juicy, living, nutty, picturesque, sapid), i pashëm (dashing, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable, proper, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), i nurshëm (charming, good looking), i bukur (airy fairy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, bonny, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, pinup, pleasant, pretty), dëshirë (aim, appetite, craving, desire, hunger, liking, looking for, love, notion, penchant, pleasure, prayer, want, wish). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرآة (glass, looking glass, mirror), ‏وسيمة (beautiful, good looking), ‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, comely, cunning, dainty, dapper, encore, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, pretty), ‏ترقب (await, carry on, expect, expectancy, expectation, looking forward, wait), ‏تشوق (look forward, looking forward), ‏جميل المظهر (good looking), ‏جميل الهيئة (good looking), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet), ‏أنيق الملابس (good looking), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, 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), ‏بائس المظهر (shabby looking). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), търсене (demand, hunting, looking for, market, quest, request, requisition, research, run, scanning, search, seeking, solicitation), красив (beauteous, beautiful, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, personable, well favored, well-favoured), очакване с нетърпение (looking for, looking forward), огледало (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass, mirror), не мога да се нагледам (be never tired of looking). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

mirall (looking-glass, mirror), buscant (looking for). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Looked). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zrcadlo (looking glass, mirror), tváří se jako vrah (he is looking homicidal), pohledný (comely, good looking, personable), pìkný (fine, good looking, handsome, nice, nice-looking, pretty, specious), neutažený (looking for), nepřesný (impressionistic, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, looking forward, unfaithful, untrue, vague, woolly), nebýt unavený pozorovat co (be never tired of looking at), krásný (beautiful, fair, fine, good looking, neat), hezký (attractive, considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, gorgeous, handsome, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty). (various references)

   

Danish

  

undersøgelse af børns visuelle diskriminering (preferential looking), spejl (looking-glass, mirror), SLAR (side looking radar, side-looking airborne radar, side-looking radar, SLAR), side looking radar (side looking radar), med redskaber ophaengt under traktoren kan en mand goere arbejdet alene (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work), hvis man soeger efter revner i cementitten,kan man finde selv meget svage spor af kolddeformation (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), fremadrettet infrarødt udstyr (FLIR, forward looking infra red), forventet langsigtet gennemsnitlig differensomkostning (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), FLIR (FLIR, forward looking infra red). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zeer vage sporen van koudvervormen kunnen ook worden gevonden door te zoeken naar scheuren in het cementiet (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), vooruitkijkend infra-roodsysteem (FLIR, forward looking infra red), spiegel (looking-glass, mirror, poop, poopdeck, stern), slar,side looking radar (side looking radar), op lange termijn verwachte gemiddelde incrementele kosten (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), methode van de voorkeursblik (preferential looking), de grote vrije hoogte en de wespentaille van der rijenteelttrekker is van belang voor de montage van verzorgingswerktuigen en het werken in de rijrichting (the very high clearance and wasp waist of the rowcrop tractor are important for mounting crop cultivation implements and for working while looking ahead), bij het aanbouwen van werktuigen onder de trekker kan de trekkerbestuurder het werk alleen af (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vide. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

spegil (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

peili (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

   

French

  

regardant. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

spegel (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

   

Galician

  

buscando (looking for). (various references)

   

German

  

sehend (seeing, sighted, viewing), schaünd, aussehend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθρέπτησ (looking glass, mirror), όμορφοσ (beautiful, buxom, good looking, handsome), ραντάρ πλευρικής κάλυψης (side looking radar), γυρεύω δωμάτιο (I am looking for a room), ξεπεσμένοσ (impoverished, ruined, seedy looking), μέθοδος του προτιμησιακού βλέμματος (preferential looking), μελλοντοστραφές μακροπρόθεσμο μέσο οριακό κόστος (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), μελλοντοστραφής μακροπρόθεσμη μέση οριακή δαπάνη (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), που φαίνεται κακός (mean looking), που φαίνεται άγριος (mean looking), η κοιλιακή ζεύξη των εργαλείων επιτρέπει την εργασία,εν κινήσει προς τα εμπρός,από έναν μόνο άνθρωπο (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work), εύμορφοσ (bonny, good looking, pretty, pulchritudinous, shapely, sightly, well favored), ασθενή ίχνη ψυχρηλασίας μπορούν ν'αποκαλυφθούν κατά την έρευνα των ρωγμών ενός σεμεντίτη (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), το μεγάλο διάκενο από το έδαφος και το μικρό μέγεθος των ελκυστήρων που δύνανται να φέρουν εργαλεία ευνοούν την κοιλιακή συναρμολόγηση των (the very high clearance and wasp waist of the rowcrop tractor are important for mounting crop cultivation implements and for working while looking ahead). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

הצצה (glancing, glimpse, peeping), הסתכלות (contemplation, gazing, observation), ראיה (evidence, seeing, sight, testimony, vision, visualization, witnesses). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szép (beautiful, fair, fine, good, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

spegill (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pelirikan (glancing). (various references)

   

Irish

  

féachaint. (various references)

   

Italian

  

l'attacco in basso degli attrezzi consente il lavoro in marcia avanti,con un solo uomo (while looking forward, with underslung implements one man can do the work), l'altezza libera sul suolo e la carenatura a vespa della trattrice porta-attrezzi è importante per l'attacco inferiore degli attrezzi di coltivazione e per lavorare a visuale libera anteriore (the very high clearance and wasp waist of the rowcrop tractor are important for mounting crop cultivation implements and for working while looking ahead), La ricerca delle fessurazioni nella cementite permette di ritrovare tracce anche molto deboli di deformazione a freddo (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite), specchio di Lewis Carroll (Lewis Carroll's looking glass), specchio (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, mirror, speculum), prestante (good looking, handsome, stately), intravvedente (looking through), infrarosso a visione in avanti (FLIR, forward looking infra red), costo incrementato medio prospettivo di lungo periodo (forward-looking long-run average incremental cost), cerco (I am looking for, look for, look for something, lookup, search, seek), cercando (looking for), bello (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, kind, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty, sheen, sightly, smart, well), aspettare (abide, advert, await, be looking forward, bide, expect, pay, pay attention, pay attention to, wait, wait for, watch out for). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

私淑 (adoring, looking up to), 介抱 (looking after, nursing), 傍観 (looking on, remaining a spectator). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

こうこ (anxiety, excellent, finance corporation, fine, for ever, from ancient times, historic, looking back, love of antiquities, pertinent, the public, the world, unprecedented, worry), うえむき (looking upward, upturn, upward tendency), ぶっしょく (looking for a particular person or thing), ふぎょう (actions, being obliging, looking up and down), つうらん (glancing through, looking over), にらめっこ (game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first, staring-outgame), せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, filature, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, repose, restraint, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, spinning, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath), せわしげ (looking restless), せわ (aid, assistance, help, looking after), かくしゅ (all sorts, beheading, dismissal, every kind, looking forward to, loyalty to, nuclide), かかん (between equipment, bold, coming of age ceremony, corolla, determined, garland, getting a bird's eye view, looking down on, Milky Way, resolute, wreath), かいほう (breakwater, bulletin, circular, circulating letter, coast battery, convalescence, emancipation, evolution, extraction of roots, good news, idea borne in mind, liberalization, liberation, looking after, nursing, open, release, reply, report, solution, throw open), えんけん (distant view, looking into distance, watchtower), こしょくそうぜん (antique-looking, looking hoary with patina), うこさべん (hesitation, looking to the right and left), れきらん (looking around), わがものがお (like one's own, looking or acting as if one owned the place), わきめ (eyes of an onlooker, looking aside), わきみ (looking aside, looking from the side), むしもころさぬ (innocent-looking, looking as though butter would not melt in the mouth), よそみ (looking aside, looking away), じきらん (respectfully looking at), みあきる (to be tired of looking at), はため (looking on by an outsider), とおみ (distant view, looking into distance, watchtower), てきし (looking onas hostile), ちょくし (imperial messenger, imperial order, imperial will, looking someone in the eyes, taking a straight look at something), かんし (a watch, article, being on the lookout, Chinese astrology, Chinese poetry, dissuasion, forceps, guarding, inspection, looking around or about, observation, prepared to die in an effort to dissuade one's lord, ring finger, sexagenary cycle, surveillance), しじ (apprentice oneself, dead or stillborn child, directions, indication, instruction, looking up, maintenance, personal affairs, study under, support, the four seasons), ぎょうし (fixation, gaze, looking up to, revering, solidified oil, stare), おかめ (bystander, looking on by an outsider, onlooker, plain-looking woman), おかみ (authorities, Emperor, government, hostess, landlady, looking on by an outsider, madam, mistress, proprietress, wife), おんびき (looking up a word or kanji by its reading), おとこぶり (good looking, manliness), ししゅく (adoring, lodging, looking up to, putting up), くびをながくして (eagerly, expectantly, looking forward), きぼう (16th night of the month, aspiration, hope, hoping for, looking forward to, ruse, trick, wish), くさいものにふた (hushing up a problem, looking the other way), しりめ (looking down upon or askance at), しゅうしゅぼうかん (looking on with folded arms, remaining a passive onlooker), しゅうらん (grasping, looking all around, winning over), うろん (fishy, suspicious looking), きやせ (looking slender in clothing), うわむき (looking upward, upturn, upward tendency), ざし (looking on unconcernedly, remaining an idle spectator), ひやかし (browsing, chaffing, jeering, just looking at goods, merely asking the price, raillery, window-shopping), まちどおしい (looking forward to), ぼうかん (all over town, hoodlum, looking on, protection against cold, remaining a spectator, ruffian), ぼうし (a certain publication, cap worn by masked dancer, certain person, check, dead child, eye, hat, looking aside, looking from the side, one's late elder sister, prevention, pupil, spinning, spun cotton, unnamed person), さくらがり (looking for or at cherry blossoms), さいてん (changing directions, festival, grading, looking over, marking, turning around). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(seeing, sighting, spring, Springs, Vernal, Watching). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

specc (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jeeaghyn (behold, eye, good looks, look, look forward, manifest, seeing, watch). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

speil (glass, looking-glass, mirror), ser (am looking, see). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

spil (looking-glass, mirror). (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

look. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ookinglay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

olhando. (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

olhando. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tip suspect (shady looking customer), speranţe (looking for), privindu-l ca un tot (looking at it as a whole), oglindã (glass, image, looking glass, mirror, speculum), individ suspect (shady looking customer), frumuşel (comely, dinky, gently, good looking, pretty, simply, slowly, tidy), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), drãguţ (attractive, beloved, charming, comely, cute,