What does Looking mean?
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Princeton's WordNet
look, looking, looking at(noun)
the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually
"he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him"
looking, looking for(adj)
the act of searching visually
looking, sounding(adj)
appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
"left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"
Wikipedia
Looking
Looking is the act of intentionally focusing visual perception on someone or something, for the purpose of obtaining information, and possibly to convey interest or another sentiment. A large number of troponyms exist to describe variations of looking at things, with prominent examples including the verbs "stare, gaze, gape, gawp, gawk, goggle, glare, glimpse, glance, peek, peep, peer, squint, leer, gloat, and ogle". Additional terms with nuanced meanings include viewing, watching, eyeing, observing, beholding, and scanning. Looking is both a physical act of directing the focus of the eyes, and a psychological act of interpreting what is seen and choosing whether to continue looking at it, or to look elsewhere. Where more than one person is involved, looking may lead to eye contact between those doing the looking, which raises further implications for the relationship established through that act.
Webster Dictionary
Looking
of Look
Looking(adj)
having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc
Looking(noun)
the act of one who looks; a glance
Looking(noun)
the manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face
Editors Contribution
looking
Verb form of the word look.
Looking at the gentleman on the street the respect shared is such a joy to see for us all and our common humanity.
Submitted by MaryC on August 13, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Looking' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #377
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Looking' in Written Corpus Frequency: #258
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Looking in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Looking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Looking in a Sentence
The rain location may be a blessing in disguise because there is such symbolic power in that building and you can see in it the past, the present and the future, i talk so much about how we're not looking to turn back the clock and it's not about retrieving some impossible again. That building is kind of a living symbol of all of that.
I think what we’re looking at in Massachusetts is where the rest of the country will be in a few years.
Before we put a deal in place with the city, morale was eroding and really terrible, long-time sworn officers were looking for jobs in other cities.
They (the police) were going around pretty much looking for anyone they could grab. ... They really weren't looking for violent guys.
They're looking into whether she used her relationship to cause him to take actions that would benefit her private consulting clients.
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