Look

verb looks · looking · looked · look

1. intransitive As an intransitive verb, often with “at”. They kept looking at me.
2. colloquial, transitive As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object. Look what you did to him!
3. To appear, to seem. It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like rain [is coming].
4. copulative To give an appearance of being. What a fright you looked in that hideous outfit.
5. intransitive, often To search for, to try to find.
6. To face or present a view. The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.
7. To expect or anticipate. I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
8. transitive To express or manifest by a look. Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,
9. often, transitive To make sure of, to see to. "Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.[…]
10. dated, figuratively, sometimes To show oneself in looking; to peep out. I have[…]more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.
11. archaic, dialectal, transitive To check, to make sure (of something). Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.
12. obsolete, transitive To look at; to turn the eyes toward. Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now,[…].
13. obsolete, transitive To seek; to search for. c. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet, Looking my love, I go from place to place, Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind; And seek each where, where last I saw her face, Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind.
14. obsolete, transitive To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence. to look down opposition
15. To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it. The fastball caught him looking.

Similar: behold, clock, look, geek, kool, regard, squizz, take a butcher's, take a dekko, take a gander, vada, viddy

interjection

1. Pay attention. Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.

noun looks

1. The action of looking; an attempt to see. Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
2. often, plural Physical appearance, visual impression. She got her mother’s looks.
3. A facial expression. He gave me a dirty look.

proper noun

1. A surname transferred from the given name.

proper noun

1. A surname from Chinese.