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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
look
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief look
▪ He gave her a brief look.
a lived-in look/feel
▪ The most fashionable jeans this winter have a lived-in look.
a look of contempt
▪ He gave her a look of contempt that made her want to hit him.
a look of disappointment
▪ She didn't attempt to hide the look of disappointment on her face.
a look of hate
▪ He gave me a look of pure hate as I entered the room.
a look of joy
▪ There was a look of joy on their faces.
a look/expression on sb’s face
▪ She had a rather surprised look on her face.
▪ I could tell by the look on Dan’s face that he was disappointed.
a nervous look/glance
▪ Lucy swallowed as she sent him a nervous glance.
a nod/smile/glance/look of approval
▪ ‘You’ve thought of everything,’ she said with a smile of approval.
a quizzical look/expression/smile
▪ He sat and watched her, a quizzical look on his face.
a smile/sigh/look of satisfaction
▪ He allowed himself a little smile of satisfaction.
a warning look/glance
▪ She gave me a warning look, but I carried on.
a worried expression/look
▪ John came in with a worried look on his face.
absent look
▪ The dull, absent look on her face implied boredom.
an amused smile/look/expression etc
black look
▪ Denise gave me a black look.
blank face/look/expression/eyes
▪ Zoe looked at me with a blank expression.
cast a look/glance at sb/sth
▪ She cast an anguished look at Guy.
cast sb a glance/look
▪ The young tramp cast him a wary glance.
cool look
▪ Luke gave her a cool look.
curious look/glance
▪ Her shouting attracted some curious glances from other people in the restaurant.
cursory glance/look
▪ Even a cursory glance at the figures will tell you that sales are down.
dazed look/expression etc
▪ Her face was very pale and she wore a dazed expression.
despairing cry/look/sigh etc
▪ She gave me a last despairing look.
earnest expression/look/voice etc
facing/looking/spreading etc outwards
▪ Stand with your elbows pointing outwards.
feel/look/sound offended
▪ Stella was beginning to feel a little offended.
filthy look
▪ She gave him a filthy look.
flinty look/stare
▪ Duvall gave him a flinty stare.
fresh look
▪ Let’s take a fresh look at the problem.
frosty stare/look/tone
▪ He gave me a frosty stare.
furtive glances/looks
▪ Chris kept stealing furtive glances at me.
go through/look through/search through drawers (=try to find something by looking in drawers)
▪ I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
good looks
▪ his natural good looks
have a look/walk/sleep/talk/think etc
▪ We were just having a look around.
▪ Are you going to have a swim?
incredulous look/expression/voice etc
▪ She shot him an incredulous look.
it looks like rain (=rain appears likely because there are dark clouds in the sky)
▪ We ate indoors because it looked like rain.
knowing look
▪ He gave us a knowing look.
look at a map
▪ She stopped the car to look at the map.
look at an option (=consider an option)
▪ You have to look at every option as your business develops.
look at/consider/examine an aspect
▪ Managers were asked to look at every aspect of their work.
look at/examine etc sth in context
▪ Although this does not seem to be a good result, let’s examine it in context.
look at/glance at your watch
▪ I looked at my watch. It was 4.30.
look at/see the menu (=read the menu)
▪ He looked at the menu and decided to have the salad.
look comfortable
▪ That sofa looks wonderfully comfortable.
look cool
▪ You look cool in denim.
look enthusiastic
▪ Your husband doesn’t look too enthusiastic about the idea.
look expensive
▪ All of her clothes look very expensive.
look for an excuse
▪ I began to look for excuses to avoid seeing him.
look for employment (also seek employmentformal)
▪ My son had to leave the farm and seek employment elsewhere.
look for information (also seek informationformal)
▪ Journalists going to the building to seek information were denied entry.
look for inspiration (also seek inspirationformal)
▪ I sought inspiration in medieval carvings.
look for work (also seek workformal)
▪ Young people come to town looking for work.
look for/hunt for clues
▪ Investigators descended on the crime scene hunting for clues.
look for/search for a bargain
▪ She began looking for bargains at car boot sales.
look for/search for evidence
▪ The investigation will look for evidence of financial mismanagement.
look forward to hearing from you (=hope to receive news from you)
▪ I look forward to hearing from you.
look forward
▪ I felt that at last I could begin to look forward.
look green about/around the gills (=look pale and ill)
look ill
▪ He looked rather ill when I saw him.
look inconspicuous
▪ She stood by the wall, trying to look inconspicuous.
look lovely
▪ You look lovely in that dress.
look of horror
▪ You should have seen the look of horror on his face.
look sb up and down (=look at someone in order to judge their appearance or character)
▪ Maisie looked her rival up and down with a critical eye.
look scared
▪ What’s the matter? You look scared.
look sth up in a dictionary
▪ If you don’t understand the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
look through a book (=look at the pages quickly)
▪ I looked through the book until I found the right section.
look to sb for approval
▪ They all admired Gordon and looked to him for approval.
look to the future (=think about or plan for the future)
▪ She could now look to the future with confidence.
look unhappy
▪ Both his parents looked very unhappy.
look up a word (=try to find it in a book)
▪ I looked the word up in my dictionary.
look up at the stars
▪ I had spent a lot of time looking up at the stars as a kid.
look worried
▪ Don’t look so worried! It’ll be fine.
looked doubtful
▪ ‘Everything’s going to be all right, you’ll see.’ Jenny looked doubtful.
looked enchanting
▪ The child looked enchanting in a pale blue dress.
looked glum
▪ Anna looked glum.
looked in...mirror
▪ When I looked in the mirror I couldn’t believe it. I looked fantastic!
looked troubled
▪ Benson looked troubled when he heard the news.
looked upon with disfavour
▪ The job creation programme is looked upon with disfavour by the local community.
looked...sheepish
▪ Sam looked a bit sheepish.
look/feel foolish
▪ He’d been made to look foolish.
look/feel your age (=look or feel as old as you really are)
▪ The singer is 46, but she doesn’t look her age at all.
▪ I keep getting aches in my legs and I’m starting to feel my age.
look/gaze longingly at sb/sth
▪ He looked longingly at the tray of cakes.
look/gaze/stare out of the window
▪ Mom stared out of the window at the road.
look/glance at the clock
▪ She looked at the clock. It was eight thirty.
look/glance in a direction
▪ She looked in the direction that Jeremy was pointing.
look/glance over your shoulder (=look behind you)
▪ He glanced over his shoulder and grinned at me.
look/go/read through your notes
▪ I read through my notes before the exam.
looking crestfallen
▪ He came back looking crestfallen.
looking dubious
▪ ‘Are you sure you know what you are doing?’ Andy said, looking dubious.
looking glass
looking...peaked
▪ You’re looking a little peaked this morning.
looking...peaky
▪ He’s looking a bit peaky today.
looking...smart
▪ You’re looking very smart.
looking...well
▪ You’re looking very well.
look/listen/think etc carefully
▪ You need to think very carefully about which course you want to do.
looks every inch
▪ With her designer clothes and elegant hair, she looks every inch the celebrity.
looks...fetching
▪ Your sister looks very fetching in that dress.
looks...miserable
▪ Jan looks really miserable.
look/sound apologetic
▪ Dan came in looking very apologetic.
look/sound depressed
▪ Is Jo all right? She sounded a bit depressed.
look/sound familiar
▪ The voice on the phone sounded familiar.
look/sound nervous
▪ He sounded nervous and uncertain.
look/sound/feel bored
▪ Some of the students were starting to look bored.
look/sound/feel/taste/seem like
▪ The garden looked like a jungle.
▪ At last he felt like a real soldier.
Look...square in the eye
▪ Look him square in the eye and say no.
looks/seems/sounds fine
▪ In theory, the scheme sounds fine.
looks...shifty
▪ He looks a bit shifty to me.
look/taste/smell nice
▪ You look nice in that suit.
▪ Mm, something smells nice!
make...look small
▪ She jumped at any opportunity to make me look small.
malevolent look/stare/smile etc
▪ He gave her a dark, malevolent look.
mischievous smile/look etc
▪ Gabby looked at him with a mischievous grin.
nostalgic look
▪ a nostalgic look back at the 1950s
not be much to look at (=it does not look good)
▪ The car may not be much to look at but it’s very reliable.
piercing look
▪ He gave her a piercing look.
puzzled look/expression/frown etc
▪ Alice read the letter with a puzzled expression on her face.
sb seems/looks/appears certain to do sth
▪ For a while the whole project looked certain to fail.
seek/look for a solution
▪ The company is still seeking a solution to its financial problems.
seek/search for/look for a cure
▪ $3 billion a year is spent searching for a cure for cancer.
see/look into the future (=know what will happen in the future)
▪ I wish I could see into the future.
seem/appear/look likely
▪ Which candidate seems likely to win?
seem/look/appear shocked
▪ He glanced at his mother, who looked shocked.
seem/look/sound embarrassed
▪ The judge seemed embarrassed to be asking her such personal questions.
shoot sb a quick/sharp/warning etc look/glance
▪ ‘You’re welcome to stay as long as you like.’ Michelle shot him a furious glance.
▪ Jack shot an anxious look at his mother.
smug expression/look/face/smile etc
▪ ‘I knew I’d win,’ she said with a smug smile.
sound/look relieved
▪ Jen looked relieved to see me.
sour look/face/smile etc
▪ Eliza was tall and thin, with a rather sour face.
stare/gaze/look fixedly at sth
▪ Ann stared fixedly at the screen.
stern look/voice/expression etc
▪ ‘Wait!’ I shouted in my sternest voice.
Take a good look
▪ Take a good look at it.
take/get a close look
▪ She moved forward to take a close look at the painting.
the future looks good/bright etc
▪ The future looks good for the company.
thoughtful look
▪ a thoughtful look
triumphant look/smile/expression etc
▪ a triumphant grin
troubled face/eyes/look
wild look (=she seemed a little crazy)
▪ There was a wild look about her .
youthful appearance/looks/complexion
▪ She has managed to maintain her youthful appearance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ She was already by his side before she thought of how her face and hair must look.
▪ How vivid and alive their faces looked.
▪ He was still breathing hard from his few minutes of play, but his face looked like stone.
▪ Light suit, short hair, spotty face, but looking in charge.
▪ Each time a man looked away and refused to back him up, and the panic on his face doubled.
▪ Her face looked big in the papers.
mirror
▪ It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror.
▪ I looked into the mirror, my green eyes looking back out at me showing no emotion, no excitement at all.
▪ I looked into the little mirror for just a moment.
▪ I looked into the mirror, searching once again into the riddle of my face.
▪ I kept looking in the mirror but not, you understand, for traffic.
▪ He looked in the gilt mirror.
▪ When he had finished looking in the mirror to put in his buttonhole rose, it was time to go.
▪ He looks in the mirror three, no, four, no, five times.
shoulder
▪ Arthur looked over some one's shoulder but said nothing.
▪ With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
▪ You never know what's out there, they said, looking fearfully over their shoulders.
▪ Ahead, Ember turned into the tunnel-mouth, not even looking over his shoulder.
▪ Then the Texas native looked over his shoulder.
▪ Somehow, with the glasses on, she felt compelled to look back over her shoulder all the time.
▪ I looked over his shoulder while he consulted a little list.
window
▪ Thee buses were photographed with a few surprised giraffes looking in the windows.
▪ They were the ones standing on packing crates outside the post hospital, looking proudly through the windows into the nursery.
▪ One was turning the pages of an old copy of Hotel &038; Caterer, the other was looking out of the window.
▪ When I took my children to bed at night they would pause to look through a little knee-high window which lit the stairs.
▪ I whispered, looking out the window.
▪ It gave me the foothold I needed to pull myself up and look in at the window.
▪ Whenever I look out of the window, they are crouched innocently in seemingly random positions.
■ VERB
stand
▪ He stepped back a pace, smiling broadly as he saw the young woman who stood before him, looking slightly surprised.
▪ He walked Stanley to the door and stood looking into the street with a worried expression.
▪ Slowly, step by step, she crept along the terrace until she stood there, looking in.
▪ They stood there looking at each other.
▪ I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room.
▪ The people standing around us looked embarrassed.
▪ He walked slowly over to the door, and stood looking down at her.
▪ Instead I stood up and looked around.
turn
▪ They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed.
▪ Even a very good marriage is not one where everyone turns and looks when you walk into the room.
▪ She turns to look at him.
▪ Gao Yang turned to look at him.
▪ They passed the hill, but she did not turn to look at the graveyard.
▪ Suddenly she turned and looked at him.
▪ Karr turned, looking for further assassins, then, satisfied there were none, looked down at Tolonen.
▪ When I reached the crest of the hill I turned to look back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Look lively!
a faraway look
a funny look
▪ Billie had a funny look on her face.
▪ I thought, in my anxious state, that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there.
▪ Robbie gave her a funny look, as though she were a little peculiar for jumping into his illogical fragment of thought.
a martyred look/expression/air etc
▪ He did not reply, but got into the car glumly, with a martyred air.
a pointed question/look/remark
▪ As he left the office he locked it behind him, with a pointed look at Bob.
a withering look/remark etc
▪ Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair.
▪ The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look.
appealing look/expression/voice etc
be looking over your shoulder
▪ I am looking over my shoulder.
▪ So, reading through this book, you feel as thought Alwyn is looking over your shoulder, egging you on.
▪ Two snub-nosed bristle-headed boys were looking over my shoulder in bright-eyed interest.
▪ You were looking over your shoulder waiting for the knock on the door.
be/feel/look like your old self
▪ After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/feel/look/get cold
▪ Aren't you cold?
▪ Come inside before you get cold.
▪ But no, he decided, the boss was getting colder and colder and his voice quieter.
▪ He was getting cold, too.
▪ It was getting cold in the room.
▪ My chips will be cold by now.
▪ She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
▪ She was afraid his skin would be cold.
▪ Since we were making plans to camp at Mammoth, we expected it to be cold.
▪ Unfortunately he, the lover, had got cold feet at the last minute.
be/look a picture
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
▪ Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
▪ It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
▪ Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
▪ She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
▪ She looked nothing like her photograph.
▪ The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
▪ He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
▪ In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
▪ I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
▪ And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
▪ Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit.
▪ Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit.
▪ The school made you feel like shit.
▪ We really do look like shit.
▪ You looked like shit the other night.
give sb a dirty look
▪ Amy kept crying, and everybody was giving us dirty looks.
▪ Frank turned round and gave me a really dirty look.
▪ My aunt's friends always used to give me dirty looks when I brought my kids over, because they knew I wasn't married.
glazed look/eyes/expression etc
▪ But he still remembered the hidden yawns, the glazed looks and drooping eyelids.
▪ Has anyone noticed that Nicolas Cage has gotten a sort of stoned-out, glazed look to him of late?
▪ He did not acknowledge Conroy, but hurried on down with that glazed look of some one already encased in their next entrance.
▪ Instead, you held your head high and let a glazed look mask your eyes.
▪ The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes.
▪ They had the distended bellies and glazed eyes of famine.
▪ With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance.
hangdog expression/look
▪ He has his father's long face, hangdog expression and lank fair hair.
▪ Ross was still sporting his hangdog look.
haunted expression/look
▪ A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
▪ It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
injured look/expression etc
just think/imagine/look
▪ Anyway, I just thought I'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point.
▪ I just think an organization like this should be hearing how the board thinks.
▪ I just thought something that was see through maybe on that wall would.
▪ I get a headache just looking at a cookbook.
▪ I promised myself I was just looking.
▪ I will spend that day in a field of black smokers, just looking.
▪ Similarly, you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here.
▪ We just thought - obviously very stupidly - that you might be working on something together.
level voice/look/gaze
▪ Her eyes were a washed-out blue with a level gaze.
like looking for a needle in a haystack
look a fright
look askance (at sb/sth)
▪ It often looked askance at the mainland.
▪ No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
▪ Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.
▪ The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
▪ Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.
look daggers at sb
▪ The lady behind the counter looked daggers at me.
▪ Their relationship is not free and easy but at least Red is no longer looking daggers at her.
look kindly on sb/sth
▪ But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
▪ No skimping, and I'd look kindly on it if you'd provide her with petticoats.
▪ Penry was unlikely to look kindly on some one who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row.
look like a drowned rat
▪ Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
▪ You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look on the bright side
▪ Always look on the bright side of life.
▪ Another is that they have an in-built bias towards optimism, always looking on the bright side of life.
▪ But look on the bright side: we've finally found a way of getting rid of Liverpool, too.
▪ By the time supper rolls around, he has even begun to look on the bright side.
▪ Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side.
▪ She would look on the bright side.
▪ Still; look on the bright side: they'd have to order another one.
look out for number one
▪ We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
look rough
▪ It looks rough and unfinished: the corpses probably stir underground during the night.
▪ Lightly trim the grass using a sharp mower if the surface is looking rough, but do not cut it short.
▪ She did look ill, and Tippy looked rough at the best of times.
look sharp
▪ Although the costumes look sharp, the set is bare-bones and nondescript.
▪ Come on, boys, look sharp.
▪ He's been training hard and looks sharp.
▪ Hobert looked sharp, completing 10 of 13 passes.
▪ So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come.
▪ They will look sharp for signs of senility and increasing pain-will they perhaps even hope for them?
look the part
▪ Certainly with his long, jet-black, forked beard, he looked the part.
▪ Clarke played four of the five tests this season at inside centre without quite looking the part.
▪ It was, she discovered, easier to look the part than to feel it.
▪ Morris's contribution to this match is unlikely to find much space in Wisden, but he already looks the part.
▪ Not that he looked the part.
▪ The Big Hurt already looks the part of a legendary slugger.
▪ This has recently reached Volume 4 and now really looks the part.
look to your laurels
look/feel awful
▪ You look awful - what's wrong?
▪ Every time we lose, I just feel awful inside.
▪ For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful.
▪ He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful.
▪ I felt awful, ill, all beaten up.
▪ In fact she felt awful, nauseous and light-headed and clammy.
▪ Oh, and did we mention the damn stuff looked awful, stunk and tasted lousy?
▪ The next morning I felt awful.
▪ Tom felt quite confident of his safety, but physically he felt awful.
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel ghastly
▪ Anders was already in his bunk, looking ghastly.
▪ If the old man had looked ill in the train, he looked ghastly now.
▪ Jacqui looked ghastly when she opened the door.
▪ She was sober now but she felt ghastly.
▪ They both looked ghastly white and tense.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
look/feel small
▪ A stream that looked small on the map had grown to be about 15 feet across.
▪ Corrigan felt small beads of sweat run from his armpits down his sides.
▪ Darren, looking small and extremely disgruntled, was slumped in the front left-hand seat.
▪ It makes him feel small and worthless.
▪ No to make me look small, that's her object!
▪ Ruth felt small and insecure, as if she were a child again.
▪ She stood trembling, staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
look/search high and low
▪ We looked high and low for Sandy but couldn't find her.
▪ He had searched high and low for these.
▪ Throughout her letters, Clappe was searching high and low for a room of her own.
▪ You say you have looked high and low for new building sites but let me tell you there are some.
look/stare/gaze into space
▪ He was just gazing into space.
▪ In his study, Bernard Quex stared into space, pen motionless over his notepad.
▪ Mrs Frizzell gazed into space and Mrs Murphy smoothed back errant curls from her damp forehead.
▪ Mrs James caught me staring into space twice even though the girl sitting next to me had nudged me in time.
▪ My companion remained oblivious to the sights, staring into space and frowning.
▪ Rachel screamed and woke up, drenched with sweat, shaking, staring into space.
▪ Sometimes the door was ajar and I would see her sitting absolutely still, staring into space, not reading at all.
▪ Usually, after a performance I come home and stare into space.
look/work a treat
▪ As usual, she looked a treat.
▪ Don't he look a treat!
▪ I bet it works a treat.
▪ I must say, Gwen, your garden looks a treat.
▪ I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
▪ It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
▪ Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
meaningful look/glance/smile etc
▪ All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
▪ Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.
▪ But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance.
▪ Lots of meaningful glances and repressed passion as only the Victorians knew how.
▪ They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time - and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events.
murderous look/expression/glare etc
▪ She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.
▪ She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
never/don't look a gift horse in the mouth
not give sth a second glance/look
pained expression/look/voice etc
▪ As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks.
▪ He assumed a pained expression and averted his eyes.
▪ He finally looked at Cantor, a pained expression on his face.
▪ His mouth was set in a prim, pained expression of disapproval.
▪ Larry, my stepfather, sits stiffly with a pained expression on his face.
▪ Rex made with the crossed eyes and suitably pained expression.
▪ The ubiquitous man with the pained expression vanishes.
▪ You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson's eyes, as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple.
penetrating look/eyes/gaze etc
▪ Although most people would have stared at his nose Adam was more struck by his penetrating eyes.
▪ He was from Fukien province, was missionary-trained, and had bright, penetrating eyes.
▪ Matron was equally dignified, with a towering cap of white linen and a penetrating gaze.
▪ Nomatterwhat she did to distract herself, his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they'd been branded there.
▪ Take a long hard, and penetrating look into the way you handle your life and the pattern of your partnerships in general.
▪ The woman scrutinized me from across the office, holding her penetrating gaze as I walked toward her.
▪ They were the blackest, brightest, most penetrating eyes I ever saw....
pitying look/smile/glance
▪ The other smiled at him a pitying smile.
searching look/glance/gaze
▪ Crouched down beside it, Delaney took another searching glance behind him, at the lifeless, cluttered room.
▪ Guy led Chalon back on to the road, casting another searching glance up at Isabel's closed face.
▪ Soul searching Look no further for a hot new boy band.
▪ The searching gaze was too much for Denis.
sidelong look/glance
▪ Afterwards, in the changing room, everyone shoots sidelong glances at Lil.
▪ But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes.
▪ I cast a sidelong glance, to see if she's noticed.
▪ Pleased faces, sidelong glances seeking agreement.
▪ She cast a sidelong glance at Fen.
take a (long) hard look at sth/sb
▪ After the inevitable posture of being affronted, I took a hard look at what I was doing.
▪ Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
▪ In practice, many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient.
▪ Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
▪ Or you can take a hard look at the feminist agenda.
▪ Some one needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years.
▪ The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance.
vacant expression/look/stare etc
▪ Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
▪ But an oddly vacant look had come over Cinzia's features.
▪ Eyes downcast; baby lips pulled into a frown; dull, vacant stare.
▪ He was a bright-eyed boy, thin and fair, with a vacant expression that often gave way to shrill laughter.
▪ He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened.
▪ However, just behind the vacant expression he offered me, I detected fear.
▪ The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
you only have to read/look at/listen to etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Come on, it's time to go," he said, looking at his watch.
▪ "You were a hippie?" she asked, looking at her father in disbelief.
▪ Look at me when I'm talking to you.
▪ Look, I'm very serious about this.
▪ Look, there are some swans on the river.
▪ Did you look under the bed?
▪ Do these jeans make me look fat?
▪ Doesn't she look beautiful!
▪ I'm glad you've shaved off that beard. It makes you look ten years younger!
▪ I've looked everywhere, but I can't find my gloves.
▪ I always look through the peephole before I open the door for anyone.
▪ If you look closely, you can see ducks at the edge of the lake.
▪ It looks as if we are going to need more help.
▪ She's really pretty - she looks like a model.
▪ That book looks interesting.
▪ That coat looks nice and warm. Where did you get it?
▪ The burglar was holding what looked like a shotgun.
▪ The cake didn't look very good, but it tasted all right.
▪ The teacher stopped and looked around to see if there were any questions.
▪ Tom looked out the window over the dry, barren landscape.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He sent one of his aides to California to ask Wilson to be chairman of the committee and to look him over.
▪ He took his seat in coach, and after an hour or so began to look for them.
▪ He was also looking for ways to satisfy the recurrent Treasury demands for economy.
▪ It looks dumb now, and it will look a lot dumber later.
▪ New buildings look good, but often money is better spent on people.
▪ Now some of them look unkempt, neglected, despite the fine new houses and gardens which are springing up.
▪ The permed young man and the woman in red exchanged glances, both looking quite abashed.
▪ When she looked back at the road, the red saloon was coming towards her.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ Take a close look at your pension position.
▪ Take a closer look at the warning labels surrounding you on a daily basis.
▪ Let's have a closer look at the factors involved in the blades striking the tailboom.
▪ Instead of razing it, commissioners asked for a closer look at its remodeling cost.
▪ She finally decided that she would go down to the garden and take a closer look.
▪ They passed a hundred yards away and never so much as changed course to take a closer look.
▪ My curiosity had been piqued, so after the service I slipped up to the band area to take a closer look.
fresh
▪ IntelliDraw takes a fresh look at the way people work with images.
▪ It was time to take a fresh look.
▪ You can achieve the freshest look with minimum make-up.
▪ Other revelations came from taking a fresh look at the data.
▪ He'd poked at the soil with a hoe to give it a fresh look.
▪ You can choose from either the graceful resilience of hardwood or the fresh, flawless look of uPVC.
▪ The new Community Care Act should prompt a fresh look at services for carers and those they look after.
good
▪ Step out and have a good look around.
▪ With his dark good looks and meticulous personal style, he made a lasting, if rather forbidding impression on lay people.
▪ If one liked that uncompromisingly masculine type of good looks, she thought, trying to tell herself she did not.
▪ I got a very good look at her, as she did at us.
▪ But then, it was not his good looks that made him famous.
▪ A good look at the bottom end of a drummer tended to lower crowd sympathy.
▪ Have a good look at that remedy and see if your intuitive feelings can be justified.
hard
▪ It was less than a hundred metres away, and gave us a long hard look as we stood there.
▪ Clarisa gave her a hard look.
▪ The hard look that seems wrong on a face so young was suddenly gone.
▪ I gave him a hard look.
▪ The next time you see a personal computer, take a long, hard look.
▪ She wanted some one outside Orkney to take a long, hard look at what was happening within the islands.
▪ I intend to take a real hard and mean look at this deal.
long
▪ Take a good long look at yourself in a mirror, with and without the wrongly-sized items.
▪ The plump girl behind the counter gave him a long look as he paid.
▪ Travis gave her appearance one long look before disappearing upstream the way she had come.
▪ I took a good long look at my chip.
▪ The next stage is to take a long, hard look at yourself.
▪ The next time you see a personal computer, take a long, hard look.
▪ He gave me a long look.
▪ Now she was stubbornly determined to have a good, long look at the Horseshoe.
new
▪ Pepsi says it considered more than 3, 000 designs on the way to its new look.
▪ Observant readers will also notice a new look to the columnists who grace the back end of our editorial pages.
▪ Now and then she mounted a short lived campaign to achieve a new look.
▪ But since the controversy is still very much alive, it seems advisable to take a new look at this issue.
▪ Several fans have complained about the new look.
▪ And do you know, the new look was the culprit?
odd
▪ He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories.
▪ After her outburst, she now remained silent, darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer.
▪ We received some odd looks from customers but most smiled and fussed over Spike &038; Molly.
▪ When I came down the proprietor gave me an odd look and said the gentleman was waiting for me outside.
▪ SHe noticed Tammuz flicking odd looks at the girl.
quick
▪ As he raced up the narrow track he took a quick look over his shoulder.
▪ Here is a quick look at the old and new labels.
▪ They went up on to the platform, and took a quick look into the Porter's room.
▪ Then, have a quick look at the floor area in - and immediately surrounding - the kiosk.
▪ Brian took a quick look at his wife.
■ VERB
cast
▪ She cast a regretful look at the big double bed with its luxurious continental quilt.
▪ As the baby grew older, she cast an envying look at pink.
▪ All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
▪ A few days after my gift was discovered, Milagros cast me a worried look at dinner.
▪ Snyde came closer, reached out a paw and touched Whillan's flank strangely, casting a lingering look at it.
▪ Hattie Johnson cast an unthinking look at Ezra, her nine-year-old boy.
▪ He automatically steps into the room, casting a melodramatic look over his shoulder.
exchange
▪ The patients loved it and several laughed out loud at her antics, while Martha and Yvonne exchanged looks of glee.
▪ They exchanged looks full of sadness, as if they had both lost something.
▪ He watched as Gilbert exchanged a look with an equally shell-shocked Frye ... and then hurried quickly towards the reception door.
▪ Papi exchanged a helpless look with Mami.
▪ Riven and Ratagan exchanged a look, and Riven realised that the big man knew everything.
▪ As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks.
▪ The two men exchange a look and put their revolvers back into their holsters.
▪ Jess and Red exchange another look.
get
▪ You got to go look for work tomorrow.
▪ I got a very good look at her, as she did at us.
▪ But we didn't have a record player, so every night we'd get it out and look at it.
▪ Because of his persistence, he got a look.
▪ Nobody else gets much of a look in.
▪ She stopped and glanced up to get a good look at him.
give
▪ And he gives me a look of a kind that I don't altogether like.
▪ She gave him a startled look and walked on.
▪ I gave him a surprised look.
▪ My brother gave me a questioning look.
▪ As he strolled towards the flat a girl who passed gave him a second look: he didn't notice.
▪ She had given him a spiteful look as she left, taking little catlike steps.
▪ Nanny gave her a piercing look. ` Really?
shoot
▪ He shot me a look brimful of amusement, then drained his cup and sat back in the chair.
▪ The navigator, Jack, came in with some more weather reports, and shot a peculiar look at Eddie.
▪ Mandy shot her a look of pure astonishment.
▪ He shot me a worried look.
▪ Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road.
▪ Rob shot a look at Loulse, who smiled.
▪ Muriel shot a look at Lily's downcast profile.
▪ His wife shot him a look.
take
▪ On arriving at the Imaginary Universes Laboratory, Gedanken immediately took a look into the experimental box.
▪ The uproar prompted Barwood to take a broader look at the museum.
▪ Of course I can't repeat Gene's formulae here, visit your library and take a look if you're interested.
▪ Just take a look at this outrageous mutual-fund portfolio.
▪ In this, part two of the series, we take a look at some of the music software which is available.
▪ He simply folded his hands and took a good look at Mel.
▪ Let us take a closer look at each.
▪ Using eight criteria that help define the risk-reward equation, Bloomberg takes a look at Albers and his fund.
throw
▪ When they reached the door she hesitated and threw him a pleading look.
▪ He ignored her and threw a hard look at me: I better not tell.
▪ Shiona threw him a harsh look as, shrugging off his hand, she climbed into the passenger seat.
▪ And that made Hanson throw a mean look.
▪ The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness.
▪ The clerk throws me a contemptuous look, then does the search.
▪ She threw him a suspicious look.
▪ He clears his throat, throws one more protesting look at David and prepares to begin.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Look lively!
a faraway look
a funny look
▪ Billie had a funny look on her face.
▪ I thought, in my anxious state, that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there.
▪ Robbie gave her a funny look, as though she were a little peculiar for jumping into his illogical fragment of thought.
a martyred look/expression/air etc
▪ He did not reply, but got into the car glumly, with a martyred air.
a pointed question/look/remark
▪ As he left the office he locked it behind him, with a pointed look at Bob.
a withering look/remark etc
▪ Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair.
▪ The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look.
appealing look/expression/voice etc
be/feel/look like your old self
▪ After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/feel/look/get cold
▪ Aren't you cold?
▪ Come inside before you get cold.
▪ But no, he decided, the boss was getting colder and colder and his voice quieter.
▪ He was getting cold, too.
▪ It was getting cold in the room.
▪ My chips will be cold by now.
▪ She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
▪ She was afraid his skin would be cold.
▪ Since we were making plans to camp at Mammoth, we expected it to be cold.
▪ Unfortunately he, the lover, had got cold feet at the last minute.
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
▪ Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
▪ It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
▪ Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
▪ She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
▪ She looked nothing like her photograph.
▪ The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
▪ The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
▪ This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
exchange words/looks etc (with sb)
▪ He and Kemp pound down the stairway, exchanging words.
▪ Hughes exchanged words with umpire Steve Randell after a confident appeal against Richie Richardson was turned down when he was on 47.
▪ I would hear the women exchange words with Miss Fingerstop.
▪ Linda buried herself in the crowd, exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar.
▪ Nurses busily went up and down, sometimes pausing to exchange words and careless laughter.
▪ The patients loved it and several laughed out loud at her antics, while Martha and Yvonne exchanged looks of glee.
▪ They exchanged looks full of sadness, as if they had both lost something.
▪ They exchanged words, not all of which appeared to be in jest.
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
▪ He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
▪ In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
▪ I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
▪ And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
▪ Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit.
▪ Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
▪ I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit.
▪ It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit.
▪ The school made you feel like shit.
▪ We really do look like shit.
▪ You looked like shit the other night.
fix sb with a stare/glare/look etc
flash a smile/glance/look etc (at sb)
▪ But spirited Patsy flashed a look of encouragement at him.
▪ Zak flashed a glance at the crew, saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign.
flick a glance/look at sb/sth
▪ Baptiste flicked a look at Léonie.
▪ She flicked a glance at her watch.
give sb a dirty look
▪ Amy kept crying, and everybody was giving us dirty looks.
▪ Frank turned round and gave me a really dirty look.
▪ My aunt's friends always used to give me dirty looks when I brought my kids over, because they knew I wasn't married.
glazed look/eyes/expression etc
▪ But he still remembered the hidden yawns, the glazed looks and drooping eyelids.
▪ Has anyone noticed that Nicolas Cage has gotten a sort of stoned-out, glazed look to him of late?
▪ He did not acknowledge Conroy, but hurried on down with that glazed look of some one already encased in their next entrance.
▪ Instead, you held your head high and let a glazed look mask your eyes.
▪ The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes.
▪ They had the distended bellies and glazed eyes of famine.
▪ With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance.
hangdog expression/look
▪ He has his father's long face, hangdog expression and lank fair hair.
▪ Ross was still sporting his hangdog look.
haunted expression/look
▪ A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
▪ It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
injured look/expression etc
just think/imagine/look
▪ Anyway, I just thought I'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point.
▪ I just think an organization like this should be hearing how the board thinks.
▪ I just thought something that was see through maybe on that wall would.
▪ I get a headache just looking at a cookbook.
▪ I promised myself I was just looking.
▪ I will spend that day in a field of black smokers, just looking.
▪ Similarly, you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here.
▪ We just thought - obviously very stupidly - that you might be working on something together.
level voice/look/gaze
▪ Her eyes were a washed-out blue with a level gaze.
look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
look askance (at sb/sth)
▪ It often looked askance at the mainland.
▪ No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
▪ Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.
▪ The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
▪ Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.
look daggers at sb
▪ The lady behind the counter looked daggers at me.
▪ Their relationship is not free and easy but at least Red is no longer looking daggers at her.
look kindly on sb/sth
▪ But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
▪ No skimping, and I'd look kindly on it if you'd provide her with petticoats.
▪ Penry was unlikely to look kindly on some one who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row.
look like a drowned rat
▪ Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
▪ You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look on the bright side
▪ Always look on the bright side of life.
▪ Another is that they have an in-built bias towards optimism, always looking on the bright side of life.
▪ But look on the bright side: we've finally found a way of getting rid of Liverpool, too.
▪ By the time supper rolls around, he has even begun to look on the bright side.
▪ Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side.
▪ She would look on the bright side.
▪ Still; look on the bright side: they'd have to order another one.
look out for number one
▪ We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
look rough
▪ It looks rough and unfinished: the corpses probably stir underground during the night.
▪ Lightly trim the grass using a sharp mower if the surface is looking rough, but do not cut it short.
▪ She did look ill, and Tippy looked rough at the best of times.
look sharp
▪ Although the costumes look sharp, the set is bare-bones and nondescript.
▪ Come on, boys, look sharp.
▪ He's been training hard and looks sharp.
▪ Hobert looked sharp, completing 10 of 13 passes.
▪ So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come.
▪ They will look sharp for signs of senility and increasing pain-will they perhaps even hope for them?
look to your laurels
look who's talking,
▪ "You need to get more exercise." "Look who's talking!"
look/feel awful
▪ You look awful - what's wrong?
▪ Every time we lose, I just feel awful inside.
▪ For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful.
▪ He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful.
▪ I felt awful, ill, all beaten up.
▪ In fact she felt awful, nauseous and light-headed and clammy.
▪ Oh, and did we mention the damn stuff looked awful, stunk and tasted lousy?
▪ The next morning I felt awful.
▪ Tom felt quite confident of his safety, but physically he felt awful.
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel ghastly
▪ Anders was already in his bunk, looking ghastly.
▪ If the old man had looked ill in the train, he looked ghastly now.
▪ Jacqui looked ghastly when she opened the door.
▪ She was sober now but she felt ghastly.
▪ They both looked ghastly white and tense.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
▪ I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
look/feel small
▪ A stream that looked small on the map had grown to be about 15 feet across.
▪ Corrigan felt small beads of sweat run from his armpits down his sides.
▪ Darren, looking small and extremely disgruntled, was slumped in the front left-hand seat.
▪ It makes him feel small and worthless.
▪ No to make me look small, that's her object!
▪ Ruth felt small and insecure, as if she were a child again.
▪ She stood trembling, staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
look/search high and low
▪ We looked high and low for Sandy but couldn't find her.
▪ He had searched high and low for these.
▪ Throughout her letters, Clappe was searching high and low for a room of her own.
▪ You say you have looked high and low for new building sites but let me tell you there are some.
look/stare/gaze into space
▪ He was just gazing into space.
▪ In his study, Bernard Quex stared into space, pen motionless over his notepad.
▪ Mrs Frizzell gazed into space and Mrs Murphy smoothed back errant curls from her damp forehead.
▪ Mrs James caught me staring into space twice even though the girl sitting next to me had nudged me in time.
▪ My companion remained oblivious to the sights, staring into space and frowning.
▪ Rachel screamed and woke up, drenched with sweat, shaking, staring into space.
▪ Sometimes the door was ajar and I would see her sitting absolutely still, staring into space, not reading at all.
▪ Usually, after a performance I come home and stare into space.
look/work a treat
▪ As usual, she looked a treat.
▪ Don't he look a treat!
▪ I bet it works a treat.
▪ I must say, Gwen, your garden looks a treat.
▪ I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
▪ It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
▪ Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
meaningful look/glance/smile etc
▪ All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
▪ Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.
▪ But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance.
▪ Lots of meaningful glances and repressed passion as only the Victorians knew how.
▪ They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time - and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events.
murderous look/expression/glare etc
▪ She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.
▪ She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
not give sth a second glance/look
pained expression/look/voice etc
▪ As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks.
▪ He assumed a pained expression and averted his eyes.
▪ He finally looked at Cantor, a pained expression on his face.
▪ His mouth was set in a prim, pained expression of disapproval.
▪ Larry, my stepfather, sits stiffly with a pained expression on his face.
▪ Rex made with the crossed eyes and suitably pained expression.
▪ The ubiquitous man with the pained expression vanishes.
▪ You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson's eyes, as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple.
penetrating look/eyes/gaze etc
▪ Although most people would have stared at his nose Adam was more struck by his penetrating eyes.
▪ He was from Fukien province, was missionary-trained, and had bright, penetrating eyes.
▪ Matron was equally dignified, with a towering cap of white linen and a penetrating gaze.
▪ Nomatterwhat she did to distract herself, his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they'd been branded there.
▪ Take a long hard, and penetrating look into the way you handle your life and the pattern of your partnerships in general.
▪ The woman scrutinized me from across the office, holding her penetrating gaze as I walked toward her.
▪ They were the blackest, brightest, most penetrating eyes I ever saw....
pitying look/smile/glance
▪ The other smiled at him a pitying smile.
searching look/glance/gaze
▪ Crouched down beside it, Delaney took another searching glance behind him, at the lifeless, cluttered room.
▪ Guy led Chalon back on to the road, casting another searching glance up at Isabel's closed face.
▪ Soul searching Look no further for a hot new boy band.
▪ The searching gaze was too much for Denis.
shoot sb a look/glance
▪ He shot me a look brimful of amusement, then drained his cup and sat back in the chair.
▪ Joyce shot her a look in which surprise and indignation were nicely fused.
▪ Mandy shot her a look of pure astonishment.
▪ Nick and I shot a conspiratorial look at each other: this time we would refuse to fight.
▪ She shot a worried glance down to the bottom of the yard.
▪ The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
sidelong look/glance
▪ Afterwards, in the changing room, everyone shoots sidelong glances at Lil.
▪ But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes.
▪ I cast a sidelong glance, to see if she's noticed.
▪ Pleased faces, sidelong glances seeking agreement.
▪ She cast a sidelong glance at Fen.
sneak a look/glance/peek
▪ Babur sneaks a look at the policewoman.
▪ I sneaked a look at my medical report; slow heartbeat, low metabolism.
▪ I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust.
▪ Just before we left, I raised up to straighten my coat and sneaked a look at the McLaren girl.
▪ Men sneak looks all the time!
▪ Occasionally they sneak glances at the businessmen -- who look back at them in mutual amazement and fear.
▪ Only the men would sneak glances at her, admiring the shapely figure showing in the plain uniform.
▪ The chairman sneaks a look at some of the messages on Doreen's card.
steal a look/glance etc
▪ He stole a glance at her.
▪ Jenna stole a look at him and he was watching her intently, in every way intent.
▪ She stole a glance at him; his features matched the ice in his tone and his eyes surpassed it.
▪ She stole a glance from her future and turned her head.
take a (long) hard look at sth/sb
▪ After the inevitable posture of being affronted, I took a hard look at what I was doing.
▪ Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
▪ In practice, many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient.
▪ Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
▪ Or you can take a hard look at the feminist agenda.
▪ Some one needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years.
▪ The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance.
throw sb a look/glance/smile etc
▪ And that made Hanson throw a mean look.
▪ Ezra threw Morrill a look of utter disbelief and shook his head.
▪ He dropped his hand, he threw a look right, then left.
▪ He ignored her and threw a hard look at me: I better not tell.
▪ He sensed more than heard the scuffle of trainer shoes on concrete behind him and threw a casual glance over his shoulder.
▪ I gasped at her beauty and, like the rest, threw envious glances at her most fortunate husband.
▪ Mark, too, could be thrown a second glance every now and then.
▪ The nurse was aware of her humiliation and kept throwing sympathetic glances.
vacant expression/look/stare etc
▪ Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
▪ But an oddly vacant look had come over Cinzia's features.
▪ Eyes downcast; baby lips pulled into a frown; dull, vacant stare.
▪ He was a bright-eyed boy, thin and fair, with a vacant expression that often gave way to shrill laughter.
▪ He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened.
▪ However, just behind the vacant expression he offered me, I detected fear.
▪ The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
you only have to read/look at/listen to etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A look of relief crossed his face.
▪ After winning, she had a look of pure joy on her face.
▪ Computer graphics gave the creature a watery look.
▪ From the look of it, I'd say the chair was about 100 years old, maybe 150.
▪ He's trying for a '70s disco look.
▪ He normally wore a slightly amused look on his round face.
▪ Her long straight hair and dark eye make-up give her a sort of late-'60s look.
▪ Here's a brief look at some of the problems we'll be facing in the coming year.
▪ I was getting disapproving looks from the people around me.
▪ Mrs. Moody had it in for me - I could tell by the look in her eyes.
▪ Sapporo, Japan, has the look of a Wisconsin city in winter.
▪ Sarah needed only one look at her daughter's face to know something was wrong.
▪ She's been giving me dirty looks all morning. What have I done wrong?
▪ She has a pensive, almost sad look about her.
▪ Sheila nodded and gave him a sympathetic look.
▪ The text is fine but the look of the page is all wrong.
▪ You should have seen the look on his face when I told him I was leaving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A look passed between the two men as George took the loafers.
▪ A kiss-and-tell look behind the scenes of a sport always turns heads with book publishers.
▪ As he passed the window, he saw Percy standing at the cash register with a hurt look.
▪ Oh, well ... You will have a look at the lines over the weekend, won't you?
▪ She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village.
▪ When the shrieks of his gang became too much, he lifted his hand and his face took on a furious look.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Look

Look \Look\ (l[oo^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Looked; p. pr. & vb. n. Looking.] [OE. loken, AS. l[=o]cian; akin to G. lugen, OHG. luog[=e]n.]

  1. 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.

  2. To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.

  3. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.

    It would look more like vanity than gratitude.
    --Addison.

    Observe how such a practice looks in another person.
    --I. Watts.

  4. To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.

    The inner gate that looketh to north.
    --Ezek. viii. 3.

    The east gate . . . which looketh eastward.
    --Ezek. xi. 1.

  5. In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.

    Look, how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue.
    --Milton.

    Note: Look, in the imperative, may be followed by a dependent sentence, but see is oftener so used.

    Look that ye bind them fast.
    --Shak.

    Look if it be my daughter.
    --Talfourd.

  6. 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.

    My toes look through the overleather.
    --Shak.

  7. To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate. Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall. --Spenser. To look about, to look on all sides, or in different directions. To look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded. To look after. (a) To attend to; to take care of; as, to look after children. (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. --Luke xxi. 26. (c) To seek; to search. My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. --Woodward. To look at, to direct the eyes toward so that one sees, or as if to see; as, to look at a star; hence, to observe, examine, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. --Holinshed. To look down on or To look down upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. To look for. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. ``Look now for no enchanting voice.'' --Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle. To look forth. (a) To look out of something, as from a window. (b) To threaten to come out. --Jer. vi.

    1. (Rev. Ver.). To look forward to. To anticipate with an expectation of pleasure; to be eager for; as, I am looking forward to your visit. To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into one's conduct or affairs. To look on.

      1. To regard; to esteem.

        Her friends would look on her the worse.
        --Prior.

      2. To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think of.

        I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer.
        --Dryden.

      3. To be a mere spectator. I'll be a candleholder, and look on. --Shak. To look out, to be on the watch; to be careful; as, the seaman looks out for breakers. To look through.

        1. To see through.

        2. To search; to examine with the eyes. To look to or To look unto.

          1. To watch; to take care of. ``Look well to thy herds.''
            --Prov. xxvii. 23.

          2. To resort to with expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to surety for payment. ``Look unto me, and be ye saved.''
            --Is. xlv. 2

    2. To look up, to search for or find out by looking; as, to look up the items of an account.

      To look up to, to respect; to regard with deference.

Look

Look \Look\, v. t.

  1. To look at; to turn the eyes toward.

  2. To seek; to search for. [Obs.]

    Looking my love, I go from place to place.
    --Spenser.

  3. To expect. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  4. To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.

    A spirit fit to start into an empire, And look the world to law.
    --Dryden.

  5. To express or manifest by a look.

    Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
    --Byron.

    To look daggers. See under Dagger.

    To look in the face, to face or meet with boldness or confidence; hence, sometimes, to meet for combat.

    To look out, to seek for; to search out; as, prudent persons look out associates of good reputation.

Look

Look \Look\, n.

  1. The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.

    Threw many a northward look to see his father Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
    --Shak.

  2. Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look. ``Gentle looks.''
    --Shak.

    Up ! up! my friends, and clear your looks.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.

    Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frighted looks.
    --Locke.

    There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this.
    --Carlyle.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
look

c.1200, "act or action of looking," from look (v.). Meaning "appearance of a person" is from late 14c. Expression if looks could kill ... attested by 1827 (if looks could bite is attested from 1747).

look

Old English locian "use the eyes for seeing, gaze, look, behold, spy," from West Germanic *lokjan (cognates: Old Saxon lokon "see, look, spy," Middle Dutch loeken "to look," Old High German luogen, German dialectal lugen "to look out"), of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Breton lagud "eye." In Old English, usually with on; the use of at began 14c. Meaning "seek, search out" is c.1300; meaning "to have a certain appearance" is from c.1400. Of objects, "to face in a certain direction," late 14c.\n

\nLook after "take care of" is from late 14c., earlier "to seek" (c.1300), "to look toward" (c.1200). Look into "investigate" is from 1580s; look up "research in books or papers" is from 1690s. To look down upon in the figurative sense is from 1711; to look down one's nose is from 1921. To look forward "anticipate" is c.1600; meaning "anticipate with pleasure" is mid-19c. To not look back "make no pauses" is colloquial, first attested 1893. In look sharp (1711) sharp originally was an adverb, "sharply."

Wiktionary
look

n. 1 The action of looking, an attempt to see. 2 (label en often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression. 3 A facial expression. vb. (lb en intransitive often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

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WordNet
look

  1. n. the expression on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face" [syn: expression, aspect, facial expression, face]

  2. 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" [syn: looking, looking at]

  3. physical appearance; "I don't like the looks of this place"

  4. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell]

look

  1. v. perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"

  2. give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" [syn: appear, seem]

  3. have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery"

  4. search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" [syn: search]

  5. be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" [syn: front, face] [ant: back]

  6. take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business" [syn: attend, take care, see]

  7. convey by one's expression; "She looked her devotion to me"

  8. look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, await, wait]

  9. accord in appearance with; "You don't look your age!"

  10. have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, calculate, reckon]

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Wikipedia
Look

Look or The Look may refer to:

Look (company)

Look is a French manufacturer of high-end ski bindings, bicycle frames, equipment, and apparel.

Look (Beth Nielsen Chapman album)

Look is a 2005 album by Beth Nielsen Chapman. It reached number 63 in the UK Albums Chart.

Look (American magazine)

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. A large-size magazine of , it was generally considered a competitor to Life magazine, which began publication months earlier and ended in 1972.

It is known for helping launch the career of film director Stanley Kubrick, who was a staff photographer.

Look (UK magazine)

Look is a glossy high street fashion and celebrity weekly magazine for young women. It is published by Time Inc. UK, and edited by Ali Hall. The magazine focuses on fashion, high street shopping advice, celebrity style and news, and real-life stories.

Look (2007 film)

Look is a 2007 American found footage film directed by Adam Rifkin. The film is composed entirely of material shot from the perspective of surveillance cameras; though shot using CineAlta movie cameras, all were placed in locations where actual surveillance cameras were mounted. The scenes are staged, though, with actors playing a given script. The film's score was provided by electronic music producer BT.

Look (modeling agency)

Look ( Luk) is an modeling agency founded in 1988. Since 2005, it has been owned by Amelia Hayes. Every year the winner of Miss Israel is given a contract, together with the weekly magazine La'Isha.

Look (2009 film)

Look is a 2009 short film written and directed by filmmaker Ryan Pickett.

Look (Song for Children)

"Look" (labelled on session tapes as "I Ran") is a composition written by Brian Wilson for American rock band the Beach Boys, intended as a potential track for the band's aborted Smile concept album. Due to lost tapes and scarce information, the recording of "Look" exists today only as an instrumental piece.

In 2004, "Look" was rewritten with Van Dyke Parks as "Song for Children", and released on Wilson's solo rerecording of Smile.

Look (surname)

Look is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bruce Look (born 1943), American baseball player
  • Dean Look (born 1937), American football and baseball player
  • Simon Look (born 1958), Israeli footballer
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Usage examples of "look".

Now he thought that he would abide their coming and see if he might join their company, since if he crossed the water he would be on the backward way: and it was but a little while ere the head of them came up over the hill, and were presently going past Ralph, who rose up to look on them, and be seen of them, but they took little heed of him.

But this knight hath no affairs to look to: so if he will abide with us for a little, it will be our pleasure.

For a fraction of an instant Abie caught herself wondering what he might look like with no shirt.

For a split second Abie was certain he was looking directly into her eyes as the volume of the chanting increased.

Moira had simply joined them uninvited, though where either of the MacInnes men were concerned, Abigail looked upon Moira as a welcome interloper.

Leaving the cripple ablaze, settling, and pouring volcanic black smoke from the flammable cargo, he swung around in a long approach to what looked like a big troop Carrier, by far the fattest target in sight.

Kingsley looked out over the flower beds that, still abloom in spite of the lateness of the season, lay before Aylesberg Hall.

It was to have been a glorious rebirth--but not all souls were approved, nor were all tombs inviolate, so that certain grotesque mistakes and fiendish abnormalities were to be looked for.

Once in a while, though, there would be glimpses of the sun--which looked abnormally large--and of the moon, whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that I could never quite fathom.

And when I asked him how an abo could possibly have known what copper looked like in the ground, he said the man had been employed at one of the mines near Nullagine.

Tuck looked to Abo, who seemed satisfied that the chief was backing him up.

Malink was hurling a string of native curses at Abo, who looked as if he would burst into tears any second.

Even so dressed, James Ludlow managed to look slightly out of place, very like a man who was too refined for life aboard a ship.

And aboard this ship a bold look, one that even hints at a challenge to authority, counts as insolence.

So there they abode a space looking down on the square and its throng, and the bells, which had been ringing when they came up, now ceased a while.