look
noun · verb · interjectionA1- Tiếng Việt:
- nhìn
nhìn. Họ từ LOOK — danh từ: look; động từ: look.
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Động từ
verb- 1.
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- 2.
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].
Our new boss looks to be friendly.
It looks as if [or like] I'm stuck with you.
You didn't use to look so dismal, but now you look/are looking positively unhappy.
(UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.
- 3.
(copulative)To give an appearance of being.
That painting looks nice.
You’re looking worried. Whaddya thinking about?
You looked a fool when you slipped on a banana peel.
- 4.
(intransitive, often)(intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
- 5.
To face or present a view.
The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.
1769, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text, Ezekiel, xi, 1, Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:
- 6.
To expect or anticipate.
I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book VI, Canto XI, 1750, The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 139,
- 7.
(transitive)To express or manifest by a look.
- 8.
(often, transitive)(transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
- 9.
(dated, figuratively, sometimes)(dated, sometimes figurative) To show oneself in looking; to peep out.
- 10.
(archaic, dialectal, transitive)(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To check, to make sure (of something).
- 11.
(obsolete, transitive)To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
- 12.
(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.
interjection
interjection- 1.
Pay attention.
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
- 2.
(often, plural)(often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
She got her mother’s looks.
I don’t like the look of the new design.
- 3.
A facial expression.
He gave me a dirty look.
If looks could kill ...
Cụm từ thường dùng
look at
giới từ đi kèm
look good
cụm thông dụng
take a look
cụm thông dụng
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from *lōkōn. Further origin, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with luke, luik, leuk (to look, see), lôkje, loaitsje (to look), loeken, löken. Likely also related to lugen, luege, לוגן.