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# look

«look» in Mova's school dictionary: **to turn your eyes to see something: look at the board** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (look, looks, looked, looking); noun (a look)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To look is to turn your eyes to see something: look at the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#m1)

2) To look is to seem: You look happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#m2)

3) To look for something is to try to find it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#m3)

4) To look after someone is to take care of them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#m4)

5) A look is the act of looking: take a look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

pointing to the cue word («Look at the word «lost»: it tells us to subtract»); in class «look at the board», «look carefully»; in safety «look both ways», «stop, look and listen»; in everyday life «look for», «look after», «look out!» (be careful), «look forward to»

### examples

- Not quite. Look at the word «lost»: it tells us to subtract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x1)
- Look at the word «each». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x2)
- Look at the picture and count the birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x3)
- Look both ways before you cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x4)
- You look tired today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x5)
- I'm looking for my keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x6)
- Can you look after my hamster? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x7)
- Look out! A car is coming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x8)
- Take a look at this shell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x9)
- He stooped to look at it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/#x10)

### note

The teacher points at the deciding word. Trap: one word can mislead; read the whole sentence. We «look at» something; «see» is what reaches your eyes; «watch» is looking for a while at something that moves.

### In the corpora

- [Lenders make borrowing look easy: "Cash in minutes!", "Buy now, pay later!".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/4/)
- [Hard times are also when scammers strike, with messages that look urgent and real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/4/)
- [An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/9/)
- [One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/13/)
- ["Your room looks like a bomb's hit it" is an exaggeration meaning the room is very messy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «look» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/look/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.