{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "lʊk" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (Southern England)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic.1 The English word, however, is cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken, Alemannic German luege (“to look”), German lugen (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn). Possibly related to Sanskrit लोक् (lok, “to see, behold”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of \"illuminating\" (cf. related word रुच् (ruc) \"to shine, illuminate\")).2" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:look", "submean": [ "(intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with \"at\".\nTroponyms: glance; see also Thesaurus:stare\nThey kept looking at me.\nDon’t look in the closet.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.\n1968, Ray Thomas (lyrics and music), “Legend of a Mind”, in In Search of the Lost Chord, performed by The Moody Blues:Timothy Leary's dead. No, no no no, he's outside, looking in.", "(transitive, colloquial) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.\n1972, The Godfather:Look how they massacred my boy.\nLook what you did to him!\nLook who's back!" ] }, { "mean": "To appear, to seem.\nIt looks as if it’s going to rain soon.\nOur new boss looks to be a lot more friendly.\nc. 1701–03, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication:\nTHERE is a pleaſure in owning obligations which it is a pleaſure to have received; but ſhould I publiſh any favours done me by your Lordſhip, I am afraid it would look more like vanity, than gratitude.\n1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:\nSo this was my future home, I thought! Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.\n1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess‎:Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.\n2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves\nChelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home." }, { "mean": "(copulative) To give an appearance of being.\nThat painting looks nice.\n1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter 6, Monk Samson:Once, slipping the money clandestinely, just in the act of taking leave, he slipt it not into her hand but on the floor, and another had it; whereupon the poor Monk, coming to know it, looked mere despair for some days ." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, often with \"for\") To search for, to try to find." }, { "mean": "To face or present a view.\nThe hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush.\n1769, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text, Ezekiel, xi, 1,\nMoreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:" }, { "mean": "To expect or anticipate.\nI look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book VI, Canto XI, 1750, The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 139,\nLooking each Hour into Death's Mouth to fall,\n1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Gloster, what ere we like,thou art Protector,And lookest to command the Prince and Realme." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To express or manifest by a look.\nc. 1815, Lord Byron, Waterloo,\nSoft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again," }, { "mean": "(transitive, often with \"to\") To make sure of, to see to.\n1898, Samuel Butler (translator), Homer, The Odyssey,\n\"Look to it yourself, father,\" answered Telemachus, \"for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you." }, { "mean": "(dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking.\nLook out of the window while I speak to you.\nc. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I have more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.\n1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, ." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.\nc. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet,\nLooking my love, I go from place to place, Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind; And seek each where, where last I saw her face, Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.\nto look down opposition\n1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy, Act 3, Scene 1, 1701, The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas Written by John Dryden, Esq, Volume 2, page 464,\nA Spirit fit to start into an Empire, And look the World to Law.\n1882, Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science\nOvid might have evaded her entreaties by means of an excuse. But her eyes were irresistible: they looked him into submission in an instant." }, { "mean": "(baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.\nThe fastball caught him looking.\nClem Labine struck Mays out looking at his last at bat.\nIt's unusual for Mays to strike out looking. He usually takes a cut at it." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Pay attention.\nLook, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The action of looking; an attempt to see.\nLet’s have a look under the hood of the car." }, { "mean": "(often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.\nShe got her mother’s looks.\nI don’t like the look of the new design.\n1909, Archibald Marshall , chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:\nHe tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. 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