look

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To turn your eyes toward something in order to see it.

   They kept looking at me across the room.

2. 2
   verb

   To appear or seem a certain way.

   It looks as if it's going to rain soon.

3. 3
   verb

   To try to find something.

   We looked all day and finally found the lost child.

4. 4
   noun

   An act of looking at something.

   They went outside to have a look at the eclipse.

5. 5
   noun

   The appearance of someone or something.

   I don't like the look of those dark clouds.

Common collocations

• look critically Verb + adverb
• look after Verb + preposition/particle
• look ahead Verb + adverb
• look across Verb + preposition/particle
• look around Verb + adverb
• look here Verb + adverb
• look like Verb + preposition/particle
• sultry look Adjective + noun

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).

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