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Look

verb
(past & past part. looked; pres. part. looking)
1.
Perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards.  "Look at your child!" , "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
2.
Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.  Synonyms: appear, seem.  "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.  "The child looks unhappy" , "She looked pale after the surgery"
4.
Search or seek.  Synonym: search.  "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
5.
Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.  Synonyms: face, front.  "My backyard look onto the pond" , "The building faces the park"
6.
Take charge of or deal with.  Synonyms: attend, see, take care.  "I must attend to this matter" , "She took care of this business"
7.
Convey by one's expression.
8.
Look forward to the probable occurrence of.  Synonyms: await, expect, wait.  "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"
9.
Accord in appearance with.
10.
Have faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon.  "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
noun
1.
The feelings expressed on a person's face.  Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression.  "A look of triumph" , "An angry face"
2.
The act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually.  Synonyms: looking, looking at.  "His look was fixed on her eyes" , "He gave it a good looking at" , "His camera does his looking for him"
3.
Physical appearance.
4.
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.  Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone.  "A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" , "It had the smell of treason"



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"Look" Quotes from Famous Books



... am digging you out of the mountain, and shall soon get down to you: be patient; I'm a coming! Very soon now you'll send up your nose to look for me, and then we'll kiss like ...
— Lilith • George MacDonald

... The captain, an enormous brawny Celt, with superhuman whiskers and a shock of the fieriest hair, had figged himself out, more majorum, in the full Highland costume. I never saw Rob Roy on the stage look half so dignified or ferocious. He glittered from head to foot with dirk, pistol, and skean-dhu; and at least a hundredweight of cairngorms cast a prismatic glory around his person. I felt quite ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various

... and grave—sterner and graver and sadder even than when she had first seen it that day the horse had flung him at her feet. It had grown brighter and happier while he had stayed at Shorne Mills—it had been transformed, indeed, for the few short weeks he had been her lover; but the look of content, of joy in life which it wore in her remembrance, had gone again. Had he been ill? she wondered. Where had he been; ...
— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... will,' she replied. 'And you will look at them, not caring at first, and then you will look and be interested, and after a while you will think, "Ah, they know all about city life, and assemblies, and coteries, and the manners of the titled, and poor little Elfie, with all the fuss that's made about her having me, doesn't know about ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

... Look, the loose brick was still in the corner. If you took it out, you would find a hole three times as big as was necessary for hiding the little box ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig


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