(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.
Peephole
Definition:
(n.) A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(2) David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy Read more Armed police were called to the central London attraction and visitors were evacuated when the alarm was raised following the ape’s bid for freedom on 13 October.
(3) Did he spy on patrons and watch their reactions through a peephole?
(4) Women were forced to wear the burqa, their vision restricted to a small, mesh-covered peephole, and were forbidden to go out to work or indeed to leave the house without being accompanied by a male relative.
(5) The light entering the peephole reaches a maximum when the far-point of the eye is co-incident with the retinoscope and drops when the far-point moves behind or in front of the retinoscope.
(6) In retinoscopy it is either the entrance pupil of the examiner or the peephole of the instrument that plays the role of the knife edge.
(7) He said he was able to get the videos of her by manipulating the hotel door peephole in such a way that he could pull the peephole out and use his mobile phone to shoot videos of her.
(8) Barrett testified on Monday , in videotaped deposition, that he removed the hotel door peepholes and altered them so he could pull them out easily to place his cellphone up to the empty hole and shoot videos.
(9) Yvette Seay said she talked to Thompson through her closed front door and she could see the bloodied woman through the peephole.
(10) This study determined the subjective refractive error in eight pigtailed monkeys by placing lenses of different powers in front of peepholes in a solid wall cage and recording the amount of time each subject used the holes.
(11) When an attorney asked him how he got the idea to shoot videos through the hotel room peepholes, he said: “I don’t know, just a stupid thought.” He was an executive with a Chicago-area insurance company when he shot the footage of Andrews in the Nashville hotel in September of 2008.
(12) A beam splitter, one-power telescope, and erecting mirror form a displaced aerial image of the retinoscope peephole for the observer.
(13) I feel so embarrassed and I am so ashamed.” Barrett pleaded guilty to stalking Andrews, altering hotel room peepholes and taking nude videos of her.
(14) The amount of light entering the peephole of the retinoscope was monitored while accommodation was varied.
(15) Those on it are kept under observation by officers using the peepholes in cell doors.
(16) Seay said she talked to Thompson through her closed front door and she could see the bloodied woman through the peephole.
(17) David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy Read more The foundation, which wants to see zoos phased out, argues that the £5.3m spent on London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom would have been better devoted to conservation in the wild.
(18) Jurors will have to determine whether the companies share some of the blame after stalker Michael David Barrett altered a peephole in her hotel room in September 2008 to shoot the secret video footage.
(19) March 1, 2016 Barrett was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after he admitted to stalking Andrews in three different cities, altering hotel room peepholes and shooting nude videos of her in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio.
(20) With identical retinoscopic reflexes observed through the actual peephole and its aerial image, the device can be used to teach basic retinoscopy techniques to new refractionists, or to demonstrate subtle reflexes to more experienced observers.