look
Part of speech: verb
intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn
Old English lōcian
Middle English loken
English look
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn).
Inflected forms:
form: looks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: looking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: look
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: look
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: look
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: lookest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: lookedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: looks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: looketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: look
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: look
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: look
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: looking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: looked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: looks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They kept looking at me.
Don’t look in the closet.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.[…]She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid[…]Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
Timothy Leary's dead.
 No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.
gloss: To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Look what you did to him!
Look who's back!
Look how they massacred my boy.
gloss: To appear, to seem.
pos: verb
examples: It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like rain [is coming].
Our new boss looks to be friendly.
It looks as if [or like] I'm stuck with you.
You didn't use to look so dismal, but now you look/are looking positively unhappy.
(UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.
THERE is a pleaſure in owning obligations which it is a pleaſure to have received; but ſhould I publiſh any favours done me by your Lordſhip, I am afraid it would look more like vanity, than gratitude.
So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.
He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy.
Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.
Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
gloss: To give an appearance of being.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: That painting looks nice.
You’re looking worried. Whaddya thinking about?
You looked a fool when you slipped on a banana peel.
Once, slipping the money clandestinely, just in the act of taking leave, he slipt it not into her hand but on the floor, and another had it; whereupon the poor Monk, coming to know it, looked mere despair for some days[…].
gloss: To search for, to try to find.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
gloss: To face or present a view.
pos: verb
examples: The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.
1769, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text, Ezekiel, xi, 1,
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:
Wornath-Mavai lieth in a valley and looketh towards the south, and on the slopes of it Sish rested among the flowers when Sish was young.
gloss: To expect or anticipate.
pos: verb
examples: I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book VI, Canto XI, 1750, The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 139,
"Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."
Looking each Hour into Death's Mouth to fall,
Gloster, what ere we like, thou art Protector,
And lookest to command the Prince and Realme.
gloss: To express or manifest by a look.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,
For a few seconds Mr Carlyle looked his unutterable feelings. When he did speak it was with crushing deliberation.
gloss: To make sure of, to see to.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: "Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.[…]
gloss: To show oneself in looking; to peep out.
pos: verb
tags: dated
figuratively
sometimes
examples: I have[…]more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.
gloss: To check, to make sure (of something).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
dialectal
transitive
examples: Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.
gloss: To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now,[…].
gloss: To seek; to search for.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: c. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet,
Looking my love, I go from place to place,
Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind;
And seek each where, where last I saw her face,
Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind.
gloss: To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to look down opposition
1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy, Act 3, Scene 1, 1701, The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas Written by John Dryden, Esq, Volume 2, page 464,
A Spirit fit to start into an Empire,
And look the World to Law.
Ovid might have evaded her entreaties by means of an excuse. But her eyes were irresistible: they looked him into submission in an instant.
gloss: To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
pos: verb
examples: The fastball caught him looking.
Clem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.
It's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it.
gloss: Pay attention.
pos: intj
examples: Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
‘Look,’ he began, and she flapped a hand to stop him. ‘For God’s sake don’t say anything that starts with “look”. Sentences like that lead anywhere and they’re always fatal.’
gloss: The action of looking; an attempt to see.
pos: noun
examples: Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
gloss: Physical appearance, visual impression.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
examples: She got her mother’s looks.
I don’t like the look of the new design.
He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […]
gloss: A facial expression.
pos: noun
examples: He gave me a dirty look.
If looks could kill ...
Synonyms: behold
clock
look
geek
kool
regard
squizz
take a butcher's
take a dekko
take a gander
vada
viddy
view
Related words: eye
cinéma du look
Derived words: look about
look after
look ahead
look ahead to
look around
look at
look at me
look-at-me
look away
look back
look down
look down on
look down upon
look for
look forward
look forward to
look in on
look into
look it
look on
look out
look out for
look over
look past
look round
look through
look to
look up
look upon
look up to
afterlook
a good look
black look
dirty look
doggy dinner bowl look
forelook
forthlook
freelook
have a look
hindlook
if looks could kill
inlook
look and feel
look-back
lookbook
look dev
look development
lookdown
lookful
look-in
lookism
lookist
lookless
lookoff
looksome
looky-loo
man look
mislook
mouselook
new-look
old-fashioned look
onlook
outlook
overlook
relook
take a look
underlook
wetlook
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kyk
lang: Ainu
word: inkar
lang: Ainu
word: インカㇽ
roman: inkar
lang: Akatek
word: il
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word: shoh
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word: shikoj
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word: شاف
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word: بص
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word: شاف
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word: اتفَرَّج
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word: شاف
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word: شاف
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word: keka
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roman: kan
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word: 看
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word: 看
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word: 視 /视
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lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 見 /见
roman: jiàn
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word: 看
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lang: Georgian
word: ცქერა
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word: 𐌰𐍄𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽
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lang: Ancient Greek
word: σκοπέω
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lang: Ancient Greek
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word: જોવું
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lang: Icelandic
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lang: Icelandic
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lang: Ingush
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roman: ḥʳeža
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lang: Irish
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word: 観る
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word: നോക്കുക
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word: बघणे
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lang: Southern Sierra Miwok
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lang: Khiamniungan Naga
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word: смотре́ть
roman: smotrétʹ
lang: Russian
word: посмотре́ть
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lang: Russian
word: гляде́ть
roman: gljadétʹ
lang: Russian
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lang: Sanskrit
word: चष्टे
roman: caṣṭe
lang: Santali
word: ᱧᱮᱞ
roman: ñel
lang: Scots
word: leuk
lang: Scots
word: luke
lang: Scots
word: luik
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: amhairc
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: coimhead
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: seall
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word: гле̏дати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
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word: බලනවා
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lang: Slovak
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word: catar
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word: lentear
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word: ꠌꠣꠃꠣ
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word: tingnan
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word: нигоҳ кардан
roman: nigoh kardan
lang: Tajik
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lang: Tatar
word: карарга
roman: qararğa
lang: Tatar
word: багарга
roman: bağarğa
lang: Telugu
word: చూచు
roman: cūcu
lang: Thai
word: มอง
roman: mɔɔng
lang: Thai
word: ดู
roman: duu
lang: Tok Pisin
word: luk
lang: Tok Pisin
word: lukim
lang: Turkish
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lang: Turkmen
word: gözlemek
lang: Turkmen
word: bakmak
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word: 𐎈𐎄𐎊
roman: ḥdy
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lang: Ukrainian
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word: xo dıyen