looking

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Otherwise you'll have to start looking around for a real job in a couple of weeks.

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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

the act of searching visually

adjective

appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for looking.

noun

the act of searching visually

adjective

Example sentences

Otherwise you'll have to start looking around for a real job in a couple of weeks.

We're looking at a few key metrics to see if this change is a net positive for Chrome users.

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

I'm looking forward to Aaron's lawyers' response to this statement.

I guess we were looking for some sign that someone somewhere is pulling for us. During the first hour this post was up I hovered over the delete more than once.

Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras?

Here is a new CEO that appears to be looking to change things for the positive, yet everyone wants to be cynical and doubting.

HTP broke into the mole's computer and turned on their webcam, and saw an FBI employee looking over the shoulder of the mole.

I learned that most startups fail, and that when they fail, the people who end up doing well are the ones who were looking out for their own interests all along.

They then asked me to get in the car and we drove around looking for the guy, found him, and they arrested him, and returned the car owners stuff.

Craning her neck to stare at that stupid dim little screen instead of just looking around at the beautiful neighborhood I lived in.

Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras.

A group of people will go out, and unanimously decide to prick and pinch and swipe their glass worship stones instead of having a fucking conversation or looking around them.

Why would he keep using something like that for 20 years?He told me that as computers modernized, it became a bit of a status symbol to have an older-looking system spewing out reams of reports.

When I finally did get back on the grid, I had found that my brother, girlfriend, and work colleagues had all been desperately looking for me when I hadn't shown up to work, and had been calling hospitals and police stations.

"I was offered the chance to make a phone call, but the only number I even have memorized anymore is my mother's, and despite knowing that my friends were probably scared to death looking for me, I wasn't at the point of calling her.

But hopefully after actually peeking in to see what it's about rather than making flawed generalizations based on traditional views of an emerging way of seeing the world, you would have learned a new way of looking at the world.