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Look can be a noun or a verb.

look used as a noun:

  1. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
    "Let’s have a look under the hood of the car."
  2. Physical appearance, visual impression.
    "She got her mother’s looks."
  3. A facial expression.
    "He gave me a dirty look."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

look used as a verb:

  1. To try to see, to pay attention to with one's eyes.
    "Look at my new car!"
  2. To appear, to seem.
    "It looks as if it’s going to rain soon."
  3. To give an appearance of being.
    "That painting looks nice."
  4. To search for, to try to find.
  5. To face or present a view.
    "The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush."
  6. To expect or anticipate.
    "I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival."
  7. To express or manifest by a look.
  8. To make sure of, to see to.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is look?

As detailed above, 'look' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
  2. Noun usage: She got her mother’s looks.
  3. Noun usage: I don’t like the look of the new design.
  4. Noun usage: He gave me a dirty look.
  5. Noun usage: If looks could kill...
  6. Verb usage: Look at my new car!
  7. Verb usage: Don’t look in the closet.
  8. Verb usage: It looks as if it’s going to rain soon.
  9. Verb usage: That painting looks nice.
  10. Verb usage: The hotel looks over the valleys of the HinduKush.
  11. Verb usage: I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of look are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of look, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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