look around

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Verb

look around - look about oneself; "look around to see whether you can find the missing document"

look - perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"

Translations

يَتَفَقِّدُ

rozhlédnout se

se sig omkring

umsehen (sich)

κοιτάζω τριγύρω

echar un vistazo

katsella ympärilleen

jeter un œil

razgledavati

guardarsi intorno

あたりを見回す

주변을 둘러보다

rondkijken

se (seg) om

rozejrzeć się

dar uma olhada dar uma olhadela

осматривать

se (sig) omkring

มองไปรอบๆ

düşünüp taşınmak

xem xét

环顾

w>look around

(generally) → sich umsehen

(in shop etc) → sich umsehen; (+prep obj) → sich (dat) → ansehen or angucken (inf); I wanted to look around the exhibition → ich wollte mir die Ausstellung ansehen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

look around

→ يَتَفَقِّدُ rozhlédnout se se sig omkring umsehen (sich) κοιτάζω τριγύρω echar un vistazo katsella ympärilleen jeter un œil razgledavati guardarsi intorno あたりを見回す 주변을 둘러보다 rondkijken se (seg) om rozejrzeć się dar uma olhada, dar uma olhadela осматривать se (sig) omkring มองไปรอบๆ düşünüp taşınmak xem xét 环顾

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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References in classic literature ?

See, I have captured one moment from eternity." Yet it is only in the East that poetry is truly appreciated, by those to whom leisure to look around them is vital as the air they breathe.

View in context

The shaggy man made the little dog let go, and sat up to look around him.

View in context

PAUL GASCOIGNE insists he is looking forward to "having a nice weekend, working hard and having a look around" during his week-long stay with Major League Soccer club DC United.

FOOTBALL: Gazza just 'looking around'

PARENTS are being invited to go back to the classroom and have a look around a Solihull school.

A glimpse into the classroom; EDUCATION

RADIO presenter Ed Doolan was invited to Nuneaton and Bedworth this week to take a look around the borough.

Radio host's guest slot

Lode Heath School and Sports College, in Lode Lane, is inviting people of all ages to take a look around the campus to see what the building has to offer on Tuesday, September 19.

A glimpse behind scenes at school; LODE HEATH

Families are being invited to go along between 1pm and 3pm and have a look around the refurbished building before joining in the fun with face painting and a bouncy castle.

Nursery opening doors to families Antiques; SHIRLEY

The only previous visit to the track for LOOK AROUND led to an easy all-the-way victory.

ICON TO MAKE FRAME; WINNER MACHINE

"We only have 30 days to go until people can come and have a look around and see for themselves the scale and quality of the council's new multi-million-pound venue which is designed to compete on a global scale."

Countdown begins to new arena opening day

Just because something existed from the time you were born, doesn't mean you accept that it continues to be that way: That's how the motor car was invented, the aeroplane, the computer,so look around you and think, what you can change by putting your thinking cap on:

Look around and think..!

Finbar Shirley, who sneaked into the house for a look around

Burglar who lay on couple's bed choked woman unconscious after being discovered so her husband wouldn't hear; Finbar Shirley, 24, from Canterbury, was jailed for six years following the attack that saw him grab the woman's neck and squeeze so hard that she couldn't scream

This man few times to look around. burst in with A second man, a hammer and Hilal Saleh, owner Newsagent friend of the owner, who was in the back having a coffee, raced out to help his friend fight off the hammer raider.