look at
Verb

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.
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