look

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I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find.

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Quick take

the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of look gathered in one view.

noun

the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"

noun

the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him"

noun

physical appearance; "I don't like the looks of this place"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for look.

noun

the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"

noun

physical appearance; "I don't like the looks of this place"

noun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"

See also: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell

verb

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"

verb

give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "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"

verb

have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery"

verb

search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

verb

be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park"

verb

take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business"

verb

convey by one's expression; "She looked her devotion to me"

verb

look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"

verb

accord in appearance with; "You don't look your age!"

verb

have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"

See also: count, bet, depend, calculate, reckon

Example sentences

I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find.

Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box.

Note that this isn't even by choice -- if we don't take action, then we look like we are tacitly encouraging it.

It's for developers without a designer to make their site look half-decent in half an hour.

But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production!

That will not always be the case, and I do not look forward to the day when our own brutality is visited upon us.

And definitely dealt with it in a less public matter, it just screams "look at me i'ml so awesome give me some attention".

I am a bad ass writer and have a crazy resume, but more importantly I know how to craft resumes and I'll look at yours and help you fix it up.\n3.

A decent amount of history looks like people trying to force their culture, their nationality, and their genes forward through history.

The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.

She's demonstrating a skill which I think a lot of developers could use: taking Bootstrap, which is a good start for a front end these days, and making it not look like Bootstrap.

I look forward to following your pending class-action lawsuit for violation of US federal wiretapping laws.

There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street.

Paypal decisionmakers might at this point give Indiegogo the sort of look a school psychologist gives a C student with a drug habit who has just announced that they're taking a semester off to find themselves, man.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy hell, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

But in a Europe coming out of feudalism where they were trying to define national loyalties and borders, worried about losing territory to the neighboring country, worried about all sorts of things that look foolish from a modern perspective, well, if Jews weren't going to care if they were Polish or Russian, that was a huge problem.