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Definition: Looking For |
Looking ForNoun1. The act of searching visually. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Looking ForSynonym: looking (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Looking For |
| English words defined with "looking for": always, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee ♦ buttoned-up ♦ Christopher Colombus, Columbus, constabulary, Cristobal Colon, Cristoforo Colombo ♦ demoralised, demoralized, discouraged, disheartened, dive ♦ employ, employment ♦ feisty, fine-toothed comb, forever ♦ ghost dance, go ♦ law, leave no stone unturned, locomote, look, looking, looking at ♦ move ♦ police, police force ♦ reference ♦ serendipitous, serendipity, source, station ♦ touchy, Toynbee, travel, treasure trove ♦ underseller ♦ way, work. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "looking for": address harvester, Appetitive Behavior, ascending triangle ♦ Carriage, cough and die ♦ Duration of unemployment ♦ egosurfing, external link ♦ GORDON, grep ♦ Job leavers ♦ Map, mouse around ♦ Not in labor force ♦ Oracle, the ♦ Permanent job losers, Picking Peaches ♦ shopbot ♦ targeted bannerspace, tracing float, TROUBLE ♦ Unemployed persons ♦ VINCI. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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.) Actually I'm looking for Alfred (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) 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.) They're looking for us, James (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) You're looking for problem (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) | |
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 reason to stand (Looking For A Place To Land; performing artist: Dakota Moon) And you're looking for the answer in her eyes (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC) All that you're looking for (Ready Or Not; performing artist: After 7) And it's looking for a rhythm like you. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) | |
Clever | The church is looking for better methods. God is looking for better men. (references; author: unknown) You may pass violets looking for roses and contentment looking for victory. (references; author: unknown) Optometrist's office: If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place. (references; author: unknown) Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Looking for Me (1970) This Is It! If You're Looking for a Sign From God (2000) Lecher 2: Looking for Strays (1998) Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat (1995) Looking for Dubinsky (1995) | |
Song Titles | Looking For A New Love (performing artist: Jody Watley) 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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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 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. |  | Robert Williams with first Fessenden oscillator on the tug Susie D First successful test of sonic system Looking for icebergs but also found bottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Station NIU during reobservation of World Longitude stations Looking for evidence of continental drift Instruments too crude to measure small earth movements Astro party of Joseph Lushene. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Looking for critters at Kukulula. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Strolling along the beach looking for the random treasure. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Killer whale cruising the pack ice looking for seals. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Sea gulls looking for scraps of food off stern of the ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Fishermen on the bridge using acoustic instruments to locate tuna. Lookouts also scour the water surface looking for signs of surfacing tuna suggesting the presence of a school. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Spotters looking for signs of tuna such as logs on surface or agitated water. Tuna tend to congregate around floating logs or other floating objects on the surface. Credit: Fisheries. |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Egrets looking for their dinners at the Bear Island impoundments. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| Author | Quotation |
Adam Clayton Powell | Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and whites who "understand the Negro." |
Cierva | In aeronautics one finds new things only by looking for them. |
Diogenes The Cynic | I am looking for an honest man. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. |
| You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. | |
Richard Whately | Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. |
Sydney Smith | Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. |
Tupper | Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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 | The evening is closing in, and grandmama will be looking for us. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | The three soldiers wandered about for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched off after the others |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | Listen, bud, said Ford, "if I had one Altairan dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say `That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Like the animal hunted from his den, he was looking for a hole to hide in until he could find one to remain in. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The driver glanced quickly at him, looking for satire |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They aren’t looking for just one cause for all cases of autism. (references) | |
Followup studies are now looking for such markers in larger groups of people. (references) | ||
Scientists are looking for genes that may be involved in type 1 or type 2 diabetes. (references) | ||
Business | Delta reported it was looking for similar gains. (references) | |
They are looking for the best and and will buy well known brand names. (references) | ||
Thailand is looking for affordable solutions to its environmental problems. (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) |
Economic History | 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) |
Travel | Belgium | Americans looking for jobs in Belgium are almost never issued working permits. (references) |
Women | 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) |
Worker Rights | Mauritius | According to the Ministry of Women's Rights, Child Development, and Family Welfare, 2,000 children between the ages of 12 and 14 were employed or looking for work in 1998. Child labor in homes, on farms, and in shops is common on the island of Rodrigues. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | If you're looking for empirical truth on TV, you're watching the wrong kinescope. |
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. |
Liza Minnelli | Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish. |
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. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Too many unemployed are still looking for the blessings of prosperity. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | When 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. | ||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "looking for". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Halhul | N/A | Biblical | Looking for grief |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "looking for": i am looking for a room ♦ looking for advice. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "looking for"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | soek (am looking for, look, look for, seek). (various references) | |
Albanian | shpresë (expectance, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, looking forward, prospect, resort), 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, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), dëshirë (aim, appetite, craving, desire, hunger, liking, love, notion, penchant, pleasure, prayer, want, wish). (various references) | |
Arabic | بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look 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) | |
Bulgarian | търсене (demand, hunting, market, quest, request, requisition, research, run, scanning, search, seeking, solicitation), очакване с нетърпение (looking forward). (various references) | |
Catalan | buscant. (various references) | |
Czech | neutažený. (various references) | |
Danish | 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). (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). (various references) | |
Finnish | olla työn haussa (be in search of work, be looking for work), ketä etsit? (who are you looking for), etsin (I am looking for, view-finder). (various references) | |
French | la recherche des fissures de la cémentite permet également de retrouver de très faibles traces d'écrouissage (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite). (various references) | |
Galician | buscando. (various references) | |
German | das Suchen nach Rissen im Zementit ermoeglicht es auch, sehr schwache Kaltverformungsspuren aufzufinden (very weak traces of cold working may also be found by looking for cracks in the cementite). (various references) | |
Greek | γυρεύω δωμάτιο (I am looking for a room), 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). (various references) | |
Hebrew | טכוס עצ" (consulting, looking for advice). (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresem (I am looking for). (various references) | |
Italian | cercando. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 物色 (looking for a particular person or thing), 桜狩り (looking for or at cherry blossoms). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さくらがり (looking for or at cherry blossoms), ぶっしょく (looking for a particular person or thing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookinglay orfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | procurando. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | procurando. (various references) | |
Romanian | speranţe, cãutãri. (various references) | |
Russian | ожидания, поиски (quest, questing, quests, search). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | traženje (hunt, hunting, pursuit, quest, request, requirement, search, solicitation, tracer). (various references) | |
Slovene | iscem. (various references) | |
Somali | raadinayaa. (various references) | |
Spanish | buscando, búsqueda (Hunt, pursuit, quest, rummage, search, searching). (various references) | |
Swahili | ninatafuta (I am looking for). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очікування (expectance, expectancy, hover, wait), пошуки (hunting, nose, prospect, prospecting, prospection, search). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou twn egcronizontwn en oinoiV ou twn icneuontwn pou potoi ginontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nonne his qui morantur in vino et student calicibus epotandis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whether not to them, that dwellen in win, and studien to chalices to ben drunken vp? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Mao kadtong magapabilin sa pag-inum-inum ug vino; Kadtong magapanggula aron sa pagpangita sa sinakot nga vino. |
| Croatian | Onima što kasno sjede kod vina, koji su došli kušati vino zaèinjeno. |
| Danish | De, som sidder sent over Vinen, som kommer for at smage den stærke Drik. |
| Dutch | Bij degenen, die bij den wijn vertoeven; bij degenen, die komen om gemengden drank na te zoeken. |
| Finnish | Niillä, jotka viinin ääressä viipyvät, jotka tulevat makujuomaa maistelemaan. |
| French | Pour ceux qui s`attardent auprès du vin, Pour ceux qui vont déguster du vin mêlé. |
| German | Wo man beim Wein liegt und kommt, auszusaufen, was eingeschenkt ist. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada orang yang leka dalam minum air anggur, dan yang berhimpun bersama-sama hendak mengecap-ngecap minuman yang keras. |
| Italian | Per quelli che si perdono dietro al vino e vanno a gustare vino puro. |
| Maori | Ko te hunga e noho roa ana ki te waina; ko te hunga e haere ana ki te rapu i te waina whakaranu. |
| Norwegian | De som sitter lenge oppe ved vinen, de som kommer for å prøve den krydrede drikk. |
| Portuguese | Para os que se demoram perto do vinho, para os que andam buscando bebida misturada. |
| Rumanian | Ale celor ce kntkrzie la vin, wi se duc sq goleascq paharul cu vin amestecat. |
| Spanish | Para los que se detienen mucho sobre el vino; para los que se lo pasan probando el vino mezclado. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-k-l-n-o-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: flooring. | |
-3 letters: fooling, forking, looking, rolfing, roofing, rooking. | |
-4 letters: florin, krooni, logion, looing, oolong. | |
-5 letters: fling, flong, floor, folio, forgo, giron, gonif, gonof, groin, igloo, iroko, klong, kloof, kroon, lingo, logoi. | |
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