LOOK ON

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I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "look on" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Observe with attention

Example:

They watched as the murderer was executed

Synonyms:

look on; watch

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

"Look on" entails doing...:

see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "look on"):

sit back; sit by (be inactive or indifferent while something is happening)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

Context examples:

Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We sat down and we drank and we yarned about old times, but the more he drank the less I liked the look on his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hump, if you will look on the west coast of the map of Norway you will see an indentation called Romsdal Fiord.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Can I say of her face—altered as I have reason to remember it, perished as I know it is—that it is gone, when here it comes before me at this instant, as distinct as any face that I may choose to look on in a crowded street?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The kindness, the earnestness of Eleanor's manner in pressing her to stay, and Henry's gratified look on being told that her stay was determined, were such sweet proofs of her importance with them, as left her only just so much solicitude as the human mind can never do comfortably without.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Look on the bright side.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He then began to find fault with other parts of my body: the flatness of my face, the prominence of my nose, mine eyes placed directly in front, so that I could not look on either side without turning my head: that I was not able to feed myself, without lifting one of my fore-feet to my mouth: and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that necessity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She started when spoken to, blushed when looked at, was very quiet, and sat over her sewing, with a timid, troubled look on her face.