Meaning Of The Word Look

Real Dictionary

What's the definition of Look? Find Look meanings, definitions and more at the Real Dictionary online.

Look Meaning

Look Definition
Look Definition

What's The Definition Of Look?

look appearance
link verb: You use look when describing the appearance of a person or thing or the impression that they give.
link verb: You use look when indicating what you think will happen in the future or how a situation seems to you.
plural noun: When you refer to someone's looks, you are referring to how beautiful or ugly they are, especially how beautiful they are.
singular noun: If someone or something has a particular look, they have a particular appearance or expression.

look in American English
to make use of the sense of sight; see
intransitive verb: to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see
transitive verb: to give (someone) a look

look in British English
to direct the eyes (towards)

look using your eyes or your mind
convention: You say look when you want someone to pay attention to you because you are going to say something important.
verb: If someone, especially an expert, looks at something, they examine it, and then deal with it or say how it should be dealt with.
verb: If something such as a building or window looks somewhere, it has a view of a particular place.
verb: If you are looking for something such as the solution to a problem or a new method, you want it and are trying to obtain it or think of it.
verb: If you are looking to do something, you are aiming to do it.
verb: If you look at a book, newspaper, or magazine, you read it fairly quickly or read part of it.
verb: If you look at a person, situation, or subject from a particular point of view, you judge them or consider them from that point of view.
verb: If you look at a subject, problem, or situation, you think about it or study it, so that you know all about it and can perhaps consider what should be done in relation to it.
verb: If you look at someone in a particular way, you look at them with your expression showing what you are feeling or thinking.
verb: If you look for something, for example something that you have lost, you try to find it.
verb: If you look in a particular direction, you direct your eyes in that direction, especially so that you can see what is there or see what something is like.
verb: You can use look to draw attention to a particular situation, person, or thing, for example because you find it very surprising, significant, or annoying.

More Definitions

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Definitions Of The Day

  • Musicology ‐ the systematized study of the science, history…
  • Glans ‐ the head, or end, of the penis; noun: any small…
  • Nonpolice ‐ adjective: not related to…
  • Stellarator ‐ a device shaped like the figure 8 used to investigate…
  • Dispersoid ‐ a colloidal system, as an emulsion, in which the…
  • SFC ‐ abbreviation: Sergeant…
  • Aposiopeses ‐ noun: the device of suddenly breaking off in the…
  • Dining kitchen ‐ noun: a room where meals are eaten…
  • Ship's boat ‐ noun: a boat for communication between ship and…
  • Amygdale ‐ noun: a vesicle in a volcanic rock, formed from…