use eyes
1 [V] ~ (at sb/sth) to turn your eyes in a particular direction:
If you look carefully you can just see our house from here. * She looked at me and smiled. * 'Has the mail come yet?' 'I'll look and see. * Look! I'm sure that's Brad Pitt! * Don't look now, but there's someone staring at you!
seealsoFORWARD-LOOKING
search
2 [V] ~ (for sb/sth) to try to find sb/sth:
I can't find my book-I've looked everywhere. * Where have you been? We've been looking for you. * Are you still looking for a job? * We're looking for someone with experience for this post.
pay attention
3 ~ (at sth) to pay attention to sth:
[V] Look at the time! We're going to be late. * [Vwh-] Can't you look where you're going?
appear / seem
4 linking verb ~ (to sb) like sb/sth to seem; to appear:
[V-ADJ] to look pale / puzzled / sad / tired * That book looks interesting. * [V] That looks like an interesting book. * [V-N] That looks an interesting book. * You made me look a complete fool!
seealsoGOOD-LOOKING
5 [V] ~ (to sb) like sb/sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for look is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is look a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, look is tagged as verb.
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