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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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... brave men. I must retreat and wait for a better time.'" He had learned a lesson. "Late in the evening," says the medical director of the Valley army, "we withdrew from Winchester. I rode with the general as we left the place, and as we reached a high point overlooking the town we both turned to look at Winchester, now left to the mercy of the Federal soldiers. I think that a man may sometimes yield to overwhelming emotion, and I was utterly overcome by the fact that I was leaving all that I held dear on earth; but my emotion was arrested ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... audibly and glanced at his wife. "I never meant to be hard on them," he said, putting down his cup. "Never. The trouble blew up suddenly. One can't be all over a big business everywhere all at once, more particularly if one is worried about other things. As soon as I had time to look into it I put things right. There ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... you will not encourage them, nor will white mechanics work in the same shop with them. And with all these disabilities, like a mill-stone about us, because we cannot point to our statesmen, bankers and lawyers, we are called an inferior race. Look at the glaring injustice towards us. (A foreigner, before he knows one of our streets from another, mounts a cart under the license of another man, or is a public porter, a lamp-lighter, a ...

— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison

... leading him to a clear pool that lay beside the road, bade him look in. He looked, and saw two white-clad figures bending over the water, and round the head of each the ...

— The Silver Crown - Another Book of Fables • Laura E. Richards

... her nature. The blank monotony of life and work had given back that childish eagerness for fun, no matter whence it came. She did not care whose ice-cream and strawberries she was going to eat, provided she got them and they were good. Besides, it would be like finding an old lost friend to look into her mirror (it was cracked and turned one's complexion pale green, with iridescent spots; but that was a detail) and see a bare-necked, white-armed girl in ...

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