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LOOK TO
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn one's interests or expectations towards
Example:
this method looks to significant wavings
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "look to" is one way to...):
await; expect; look; wait (look forward to the probable occurrence of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be excited or anxious about
Synonyms:
anticipate; look for; look to
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "look to" is one way to...):
await; expect; look; wait (look forward to the probable occurrence of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "look to"):
apprehend; quail at (anticipate with dread or anxiety)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
I must look to this other wound in the arm: she has had her teeth here too, I think.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Both seemed to look to her for directions.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I often feel as if I needed teaching more than ever since these babies look to me for everything.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And since he had not taken him with him before, so, now, he could look to be left behind.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A rough crowd had assembled in the street to see the fighting-men go in, and my uncle warned me to look to my pockets as we pushed our way through it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Instead, researchers look to see if factors linked to cancer change when chocolate is consumed.
(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
To explore this uncharted area of gravitational wave science, researchers look to a natural experiment in the sky called a pulsar timing array.
(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)
No, said the other, that is not an honest calling, and what can one look to earn by it in the end but the gallows?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The brightest eruption features, which appear to be discrete jets, look to them to be superimposed intermittently upon this background structure.
(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)
Having no children of my own, who should I look to in any little matter I may ever have to bestow, but the children of my sisters? —and I am sure Mr. Norris is too just—but you know I am a woman of few words and professions.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
