What's the difference between leer and look?

Leer


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To learn.
  • (a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
  • (a.) Empty of contents.
  • (a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
  • (a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
  • (n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
  • (n.) The cheek.
  • (n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
  • (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
  • (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
  • (v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
  • (2) They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
  • (3) He would think nothing of driving around in his van, leering at girls in school uniforms and shouting abuse after them, said one former partner.
  • (4) There it’s much less clear who is actually in charge.” NGOs that attempted to stay in Leer despite the fighting could do little for the population.
  • (5) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
  • (6) Zevon gives a ferocious leer, flashing two rows of evenly spaced, impossibly white teeth.
  • (7) [The war has] taken a different turn this year.” During April-September government offensives, “at least 1,000 civilians were killed, 1,300 women and girls were raped, and 1,600 women and children were abducted in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties”, according to estimates in a recent circular to charities working on civilian protection.
  • (8) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
  • (9) As we see from the secret cameras, this isn't so much seduction as leering at intoxicated women until they finally relent and reel off a phone number, something that happens with depressing frequency.
  • (10) As ugly as its stupid sponsored name, this thing's going to leer over the Olympic Park and get in the way of the fine views from this side of the river.
  • (11) In the latest flare-up of fighting, government forces are pushing towards Machar’s hometown of Leer, in Unity state, which is held by his supporters.
  • (12) My portfolio was basically the trade-off we made for keeping Wilders quiet,” Leers said.
  • (13) As frontlines swept through Leer, NGO compounds were looted.
  • (14) Plenty of women watch sport, plenty of men want to watch women's sport and not just because they want to leer at women in bikinis.
  • (15) Fears of an attack on Leer led the UN and all the NGOs working in the area to withdraw their staff last week.
  • (16) At the height of Savilegate, the news became a sort of Imax ghost-train ride in which a bleached gargoyle repeatedly leered at you, a rolling news ticker scrolling under his chin like police incident tape stretched hastily into position.
  • (17) Much of the task of keeping Wilders onside fell to the experienced Christian Democrat Gerd Leers, a fellow Limburger, in the newly created post of minister for immigration.
  • (18) A scientific study of the success rate indicates that through IVT, reductions of the probability of relapse are achievable, which far exceed even the effectiveness of re-education carried out with fewer problematical cases (e. g. Leer model).
  • (19) (It features my floating disembodied head as a leering demon).
  • (20) I came here from the swamp when I heard they were giving out food,” said Leer resident Thomas Riek Makuei.

Look


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.
  • (v. i.) To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.
  • (v. i.) To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.
  • (v. i.) To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.
  • (v. i.) In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.
  • (v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.
  • (v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.
  • (v. t.) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
  • (v. t.) To seek; to search for.
  • (v. t.) To expect.
  • (v. t.) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
  • (v. t.) To express or manifest by a look.
  • (n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.
  • (n.) Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.
  • (n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (2) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (4) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (5) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
  • (6) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
  • (7) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (8) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (9) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (10) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (11) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
  • (12) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
  • (13) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
  • (14) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (15) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (16) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (17) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (18) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (20) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.

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