If you look in a particular direction, you direct your eyes in that direction, especially so that you can see what is there or see what something is like.

If you look at a book, newspaper, or magazine, you read it fairly quickly or read part of it.

If someone, especially an expert, looks at something, they examine it, and then deal with it or say how it should be dealt with.

If you look at someone in a particular way, you look at them with your expression showing what you are feeling or thinking.

If you look for something, for example something that you have lost, you try to find it.

If you are looking for something such as the solution to a problem or a new method, you want it and are trying to obtain it or think of it.

If you look at a subject, problem, or situation, you think about it or study it, so that you know all about it and can perhaps consider what should be done in relation to it.

If you look at a person, situation, or subject from a particular point of view, you judge them or consider them from that point of view.

You say look when you want someone to pay attention to you because you are going to say something important.

You can use look to draw attention to a particular situation, person, or thing, for example because you find it very surprising, significant, or annoying.

If something such as a building or window looks somewhere, it has a view of a particular place.

If you are looking to do something, you are aiming to do it.

If you say that someone did something and then never looked back, you mean that they were very successful from that time on.

If you look someone in the eye or look them in the face, you look straight at their eyes in a bold and open way, for example in order to make them realize that you are telling the truth.

If you say that someone looks the other way, you are critical of them because they pay no attention to something unpleasant that is happening, when they should be dealing with it properly.

You say look here when you are going to say something important to someone, especially when you are angry at what they have done or said.

If you say or shout 'look out!' to someone, you are warning them that they are in danger.

If someone looks you up and down, they direct their eyes from your head to your feet, in a rude and superior way and often as though they disapprove of you.