look at (third-person singular simple present looks at, present participle looking at, simple past and past participle looked at)

1. (transitive) To observe or watch.
   • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:

     Oh my good gracious me, look at that. Whoa! Quick!
     What is it?
     I can't explain it. You're just going to have to come over here and look out this window for a while.
     Whatever it is, we're not interested.
     Well. I have to say you're missing out.

2. (transitive) To study visually.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:

     The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.

3. (transitive) To consider.

   I looked at the possibility of buying a new car, but my current one still runs great and it's paid off.

4. (transitive) To face; to be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.

   He is looking at jail time.

• French: regarder
• German: schauen
• Italian: guardare
• Portuguese: observar, ver
• Spanish: mirar

• French: regarder
• Portuguese: ver

• French: fixer, regarder
• Portuguese: ver

• Russian: свети́ть