Meaning of Looking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of one who looks; a glance.
2. To take care of: looked after his younger brother.
3. To inquire into; investigate: The police looked into the disturbance.
4. To regard in a certain way: looked on them as incompetents.
5. To be watchful or careful; take care: If you don't look out, you may fall on the ice. We looked out for each other on the trip.
6. To examine or inspect, often in hasty fashion: looked over the proposal before the meeting.
7. To be critical or suspicious of something one has received without expense.
8. To act or respond quickly: Look alive! We leave in five minutes.
9. To regard with contempt or condescension.
10. To think of (a future event) with pleasurable, eager anticipation: looking forward to graduation.
11. To visit: I look in on my grandparents each weekend.

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Examples

“A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play⟳. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]”

CEFR level