Look For

Definition: Look For

Look For

Verb

1. Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county".

2. Be excited or anxious about.

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

Synonyms: Look For

Expectation

Verb: expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder; at, not wonder if.

Impossibility

Phrase: the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere lites; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; il a le mer _ boire.

Inquiry

Look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul.

Crosswords: Look For

It's like what Lenin said you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

But now at least I know its not some place you can look for, cause its not where you go. Its how you feel for a moment in your life when your apart of something, and if you find that moment it lasts forever (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge)

Spread out and look for Mary Clarence. (Sister Act; writing credit: Joseph Howard)

What do you look for in a woman you date? (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.)

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

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

Oh, baby when you look for me (Circle In The Sand; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

But if you look for truthfulness (Honesty; performing artist: Billy Joel)

When you're in love with a beautiful woman you look for lies (When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman; performing artist: Dr Hook)

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

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

If you have lost something, it will be in the last place you look for it. (references; author: unknown)

Learn from the past; live for today; look for tomorrow; take a nap this afternoon. (references; author: unknown)

Don't Look for Me at Places Where I Can't Be Found (1970)

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001)

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

Books

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

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

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

Family look for rocks on the beach at the Furnace Bay area on the shores of Lake Superior in the Hiawatha National Forest, MI. Credit: USDA.

Three-sixteenths-inch-long Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (14-spot) lady beetles look for aphids on a fava bean leaf. Scientists think the beetles might be helpful in controlling Russian wheat aphids that now infest 17 Great Plains and Western states. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Wildlife biologists look for Marble Murlets. Credit: D. Huntington.

Friends and relatives look for their dead FFI fighters. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Celebrate Labor Day every day : look for the union label : if union families don't, who will?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

If union families don't look for the union label, 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.

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

The people, who do not look for unworthy motives in holy works, admired and were softened.

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

Look for products labeled low sodium. (references)

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

Look for their number in the blue pages of the phone book. (references)

Business

Local end-users look for suppliers who can assure good after-sales service. (references)

Hospitals now receive few subsidies, and look for niche services to boost revenues. (references)

These are often qualities end-users look for when making their procurement decisions. (references)

Economic History

Czech Rep

On large projects, companies often look for a supplier loan. (references)

Israel

Israeli customers look for quality whenever possible and will shop around to find the best buy. (references)

Guatemala

They look for recognizable trademarks because consumers consider these to be a sign of quality. (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

Following the indiscriminate arrests, the police regularly detain individuals for up to 20 days or more while they look for a reason to charge them with a crime, even though the law permits prosecutors only to order detentions for up to 48 hours without a judge's order. (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)

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)

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)

Women

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)

Zimbabwe

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

Expressions using "look for": look for a job ♦ look for a needle in a bottle of hay ♦ look for a needle in a haystack ♦ look for a needle in a haystrack ♦ look for a needle in haystack ♦ look for a while ♦ look for finance ♦ look for work ♦ To look for. Additional references.

Afrikaans

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

Albanian

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), kërkoj të gjej (Hunt), 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, 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). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقب عن (grub), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, 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)

Aymara

thaqaña (to look for). (various references)

Basque

bilatu (look for to). (various references)

Breton

klask (to look for). (various references)

Bulgarian 

търся (ask for, go after, grope, hunt, hunt up, look about, look up, nose, prospect, quest, root about, scavenge, scratch around, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, skirmish), потърсвам (ask for, look out, look up, seek, seek out, try to find). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�尋 (to look for, to search for), 搗亂 (cause a disturbance, look for trouble; intentionally bother sb), 找 (to call on, to find, to look for, to return, to seek, to try to find), 求得 (ask for and receive, look for and obtain, try to obtain), 求 (to beseech, to demand, to look for, to request, to seek), 尋訪 (to inquire after, to look for), 尋�" (to look for), 尋事�"�非 (to look for trouble), 尋找 (to look for, to seek), 尋機 (to look for an opportunity), 尋求 (to look for, to seek), 尋 (to look for, to search, to seek). (various references)

Czech

vybrat (choose, clear, cull, scoop, select, shell out, single out, tell off, withdraw), hledat (prospect, quaere, scour about, search, search for, seek), říkat si o. (various references)

Danish

søge (look, seek). (various references)

Dutch

zoek. (various references)

Esperanto

serĉi (seek). (various references)

French

chercher (look, look out, look up). (various references)

German

suchen (find, hunt, look, look out for, lookup, probe, quest, quests, search, search about, search around, seek, seek after, sought, strive, to hunt, to look for, to search, try, woo), erwarten (abide, abode, anticipate, await, bargain for, expect, to anticipate, to await, to bide, to estimate, to expect, visualize, wait, wait for). (various references)

Greek 

αναζητώ (be after, delve, search out, seek). (various references)

Guarani

aheka (I look for). (various references)

Haitian Creole

chache. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחפש (examine, hunt for, quest, search, seek). (various references)

Hungarian

nyomoz (investigate, sleuth, to enquire, to get evidence, to gumshoe, to hunt a thief, to inquire, to investigate, to nose about, to sleuth), keres (ask after, ask for, feel, got, hunt for, look out, quest, search, seek after, to addle, to earn, to get, to look for, to mouse, to pick up, to take five hundred dollars a week). (various references)

Indonesian

mencari (go after, hunt for, quest, seek), geratak (scarch), cari, bercari-carian. (various references)

Inuktitut

qiniqtuq (to look for). (various references)

Italian

cercare (ask for, attempt, dig, endeavor, endeavour, Hunt, look, look up, pick, prospect, scavenge, search, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, to search for, want). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

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

Japanese Katakana 

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

Luxembourgish

siche. (various references)

Manx

shirrey son. (various references)

Occitan

cercar. (various references)

Pig Latin

ooklay orfay

Portuguese

procurar (browse, come after, court, dub, ensue, find out, fish, fossick, get, hunt up, look after, look up, nose, obtrude, pursue, quest, rake, rake up, search, search after, search for, seek), buscar (collect, court, examine, explore, fetch, find, fish, investigate, nose, pursue, quest, rake, rake up, research, search, seek, strive for, to seek). (various references)

Romanian

umbla dupã, se uita dupã (cast), se aştepta la (apprehend, bargain for, expect), prevedea (anticipate, envisage, forecast, foreknow, foresee, gauge, provide, provide that, stipulate), cãuta (covet, ferret, forage, fossick, Hunt, look about for, look out, look out for, look up, make a search, nose, quest, search after, search for, seek, seek for, want), anticipa (antedate, anticipate, forestall, prefigure, prophesy). (various references)

Russian 

искать (ferret about, fossick, grope, look about, pick, ransack, search, searched, seek). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tražiti (ask for, demand, grope, hunt, inquire into, pursue, request, require, search, search for, seek, solicit, sue, track), očekivati (anticipate, await, expect, watch). (various references)

Somali

fiirsado. (various references)

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 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, to look for, turn up). (various references)

Swedish

söka efter (feel for, fish for, quest for, seek for). (various references)

Tahitian

ma'imi (to look for). (various references)

Turkish

ummak (anticipate, bargain for, expect, have smth. in prospect, hope, look, promise oneself smth., trust), bulmaya çalışmak (search for, try to find), beklemek (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, expect, hang about, hang around, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look forward to, mark time, stand by, stay, Tarry, wait, wait for, watch), aramak (be on the look-out for, be spoiling for, call, comb, comb out, gun for, have a look-see, Hunt, hunt after, hunt for, hunt out, look, Miss, poke, prospect, quest, rout, rummage, scout about, scout around, search, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, try to find, woo). (various references)

Turkmen 

selpemek (trot), eklemek (contain, hold), agtarmak (search). (various references)

Ukrainian

сподіватися (anticipate, expect, hope, rely, trust), шукати (hunt for, pick, quest, search, seek). (various references)

Welsh

chwilio (examine, search). (various references)

Wolof

wut. (various references)

requiro. (various references)

isa. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: floor, kloof.

-3 letters: folk, fool, fork, kolo, loof, look, rolf, roof, rook.

-4 letters: for, fro, kor, loo.

-5 letters: lo, of, or.

+3 letters: footlocker.

+4 letters: footlockers.

+5 letters: cuckooflower.