Look On

Definition: Look On

Look On

Verb

1. Observe with attention; "They watched as the murderer was executed".

2. Look on as or consider: "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician".

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

Synonyms: Look On

Hope

Be hopeful; Adjective: look on the bright side of, view on the sunny side, voir en couleur de rose, make the best of it, hope for the best; put a good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face upon; keep one's spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of good heart, be of good cheer; flatter oneself, "lay the flattering unction to one's soul"

Presence

Verb: exist in space, be present; Adjective: assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there.

Crosswords: Look On

Look on the bright side. (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin)

You should have seen the look on her face when she thought I was a lesbian. (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Don McGuire)

A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

From the look on your face, Joy, I'd say Sally's house just burned down. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

Well honey, look on the bright side. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

He had a strange look on his face. (Lucille; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

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Books

• Look on the Breit Side 2003 Block Calendar (reference)

• We So Seldom Look on Love (reference)

  (more book 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.

Blue marlin being brought to gaff as judges of the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament look on. Credit: Fisheries.

Gen. Ed Eberhart, Air Force Space Command commander, speaks during the Buckley Air Force Base activation ceremony Oct. 2, as Colorado Gov. Bill Owens (left) and Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters look on. (P.; photo by Lynn Gonzales)..

"Solid South" tiger standing over "the spoils" dead deer while "mugwump" donkey, "labor vote" ox, and "prohibitionist" bird look on. Credit: Library of Congress.

New television star Jimmie Dodd sings and plays the gee-tar while a group of the already-fabulous "Mouseketeers" look on [...]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lobby card promoting The Jackie Robinson Story, showing umpire arguing with Dodgers manager, while Jackie Robinson and another Dodger look on. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cowboy riding bronco while other cowboys look on. Credit: Library of Congress.

In a scene from the movie, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", Jimmy Stewart examines numerous lettes from baskets as well as those littered on the floor of the Senate, as Claude Raines (left) and others look on. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. J. Webster ironing while her sons look on. Tehama County, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grading muskrats while fur buyers and Spanish trappers look on during auction sale on porch of community store in Saint Bernard, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But, it is plain, governments themselves understand it otherwise; they claim no power over the son, because of that they had over the father; nor look on children as being their subjects, by their fathers being so. (Second Treatise of Government)

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

Look on, a few years, into a life where disease has no existence.

A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.

Why do you look on us, and shake your head, And call us orphans, wretches, castaways, If that our noble father were alive?

Its broad pinnate tropical leaf was pleasant though strange to look on.

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Health

If you are not sure you have Part A, look on your red, white, and blue Medicare card. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "look on": look on the bright side of ♦ look on the dark side of things ♦ look on to ♦ To look on ♦ to look on the bright side. Additional references.

Albanian

vështroj (eye, gaze round, look, regard, see, sight, survey, take a look at, trace, watch), konsideroj (account for, call, consider, hold, presume, rate, regard, view). (various references)

Arabic 

‏راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, mind, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

считам (conceive, deem, esteem, guess, hold, make, reckon, regard, repute, see, suppose, think, vote), гледам на (see, view), гледам (eye, gape, lamp, look, look at, look out, look through, manage, mind, nurse, open, overlook, point, regard, see, see into, tend, view, watch), наблюдател съм, наблюдавам (eye, inspect, keep an eye on, note, observe, oversee, regard, stag, watch). (various references)

Czech

přihlížet (look at, stand by), dívat se na (watch). (various references)

Finnish

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

French

surveiller (look, look after). (various references)

German

zusehen (advert, consider, deem, look, make sure, observe, pay attention, pay attention to, regard, see, view, watch, watch out for), zugucken, betrachten (account, behold, consider, contemplate, count, esteem, eye, keep, look at, look upon, lookup, mind, observe, regard, take into account, to contemplate, to eye, to regard, to treat, view, viewed, viewing), ansehen (appearance, consider, count, credit, deem, esteem, eye, kudos, look, look at, look upon, prestige, regard, renown, reputation, repute, respect, respectability, see, standing, standung, status, tell by looking, view, watch). (various references)

Greek 

παρακολουθώ ως απλό θεατή, θεωρώ ως (regard as). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שקיף (contemplate, observe, review, view). (various references)

Hungarian

valamit valamilyennek tekint, végignéz valamit, kibicel (to kibitz). (various references)

Italian

guardare (be careful, behold, consider, deem, defend, eye, face, gaze at, glance at, have a look at, look, look after, look at, look at oneself, look out on, observe, regard, see, to look, view, watch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

馬鹿面 (foolish face, stupid look on one's face). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばかづら (foolish face, stupid look on one's face). (various references)

Manx

jeeaghyn er (look at, look upon). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooklay onay

Portuguese

ver como espectador, contemplar (contemplate, eye, look). (various references)

Romanian

privi (appertain to, behold, concern, consider, gaze, give a look at, glance, have a look at, look, regard, see, touch, view), avea vedere spre. (various references)

Russian 

считать (account, be of the opinion, consider, consider [], count, date, deem, deeming, esteem, guess, number, rate, reckon, regard, regarded, think, think of as, think to be), смотреть (behold, consider, deem, eye, look, look at, looked, looking, regard, see, view, watch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smatrati (consider, deem, regard, take, think, ween), osmatrati (observe, scan, watch), gledati (look, look out, see, view, watch). (various references)

Spanish

mirar (consider, deem, eye, glance, look, look about, look after, look around, look at, look to, peer, regard, see, survey, touch on, view, watch), estar de mirón, considerar (account, behold, consider, contemplate, deem, define, esteem, judge, look at, look upon, perpend, ponder, reckon, regard, set down, take into account, take into consideration, think, think over, view, weigh). (various references)

Swedish

vara åskådare, titta på (look at, look upon, see about, see over, survey, tour), se på (look at, look upon, watch), betrakta (account, consider, contemplate, envisage, esteem, eye, look at, look upon, observe, regard, take into account, treat, view, watch), anse (account, allow, consider, deem, feel, find, hold, opine, reckon, repute, think). (various references)

Turkish

olarak görmek (look upon, rate, regard as, treat as), katılmadan seyretmek, gözüyle bakmak (account, look at with the eye of, look upon), birlikte kitap okumak, bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch). (various references)

Ukrainian

спостерігати (invigilate, observe, oversee, see, sight, twig, watch). (various references)

inspector. (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: kolo, look, loon, nolo, nook.

-3 letters: loo, noo.

-4 letters: lo, no, on.

+2 letters: lookdown, onlooker.

+3 letters: lookdowns, onlookers, onlooking.

+5 letters: overlooking, zooplankton.