Wiktionary
vb. To search; to seek.
WordNet
v. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" [syn: search, seek]
be excited or anxious about [syn: anticipate, look to]
Usage examples of "look for".
He felt as might have felt that wanderer in the enchanted mountains, who, returning in the morning to look for his companions, found them turned to stone.
Another strong reason for skepticism is that an additional experiment to look for organic molecules in the Martian soil gave uniformly negative results, even though the instruments could detect such molecules at a sensitivity of around one part per billion.
We look for beshdellamare [beche-de-la-mer], and take a turn at harpooning sometimes.
If you live near a computer swap meet, Fry's, Microcenter, or other such place, look for Linux CD's there.
The threat of blackmail in exchange for the last place anyone would think to look for Jessie.
People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause.
The only thing I can think of is to look for Carmen Sanchez and the guy Morelli said was in the apartment with Ziggy.
I wasn't finding anything, but the list of items to look for was getting longer, so maybe I was making progress.
You knew just where you'd put it and you were sure it was there and then, when you went to look for it, it had disappeared.
And wondering, too, about what kind of world he came from and why he might have left it and what happened to him out in the long dark that forced him to look for asylum on Earth.
I look for the headlight, but I didn't see it and I thought probably 1 trees had hidden it from me.