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I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.
Natasha Bedingfield

Meaning of "look through" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOOK THROUGH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOOK THROUGH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Look through is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb look through in English.

WHAT DOES LOOK THROUGH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of look through in the English dictionary

The definition of look through in the dictionary is or tr, adverb to examine, esp cursorily. Other definition of look through is to ignore deliberately.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LOOK THROUGH

PRESENT

Present
I look through
you look through
he/she/it looks through
we look through
you look through
they look through
Present continuous
I am looking through
you are looking through
he/she/it is looking through
we are looking through
you are looking through
they are looking through
Present perfect
I have looked through
you have looked through
he/she/it has looked through
we have looked through
you have looked through
they have looked through
Present perfect continuous
I have been looking through
you have been looking through
he/she/it has been looking through
we have been looking through
you have been looking through
they have been looking through
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I looked through
you looked through
he/she/it looked through
we looked through
you looked through
they looked through
Past continuous
I was looking through
you were looking through
he/she/it was looking through
we were looking through
you were looking through
they were looking through
Past perfect
I had looked through
you had looked through
he/she/it had looked through
we had looked through
you had looked through
they had looked through
Past perfect continuous
I had been looking through
you had been looking through
he/she/it had been looking through
we had been looking through
you had been looking through
they had been looking through
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will look through
you will look through
he/she/it will look through
we will look through
you will look through
they will look through
Future continuous
I will be looking through
you will be looking through
he/she/it will be looking through
we will be looking through
you will be looking through
they will be looking through
Future perfect
I will have looked through
you will have looked through
he/she/it will have looked through
we will have looked through
you will have looked through
they will have looked through
Future perfect continuous
I will have been looking through
you will have been looking through
he/she/it will have been looking through
we will have been looking through
you will have been looking through
they will have been looking through
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would look through
you would look through
he/she/it would look through
we would look through
you would look through
they would look through
Conditional continuous
I would be looking through
you would be looking through
he/she/it would be looking through
we would be looking through
you would be looking through
they would be looking through
Conditional perfect
I would have look through
you would have look through
he/she/it would have look through
we would have look through
you would have look through
they would have look through
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been looking through
you would have been looking through
he/she/it would have been looking through
we would have been looking through
you would have been looking through
they would have been looking through
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you look through
we let´s look through
you look through
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to look through
Past participle
looked through
Present Participle
looking through
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOOK THROUGH

look alive
look alive!
look as if butter wouldn´t melt in one´s mouth
look back
look daggers
look down
look down one´s nose at
look forward to
look here
look like something the cat brought in
look lively
look on
look or feel (like) a million dollars
look over
look sharp
look sick
look someone in the eye
look someone in the face
look to one´s laurels
look up

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOOK THROUGH

although
borough
breakthrough
click through
click-through
get through
go through
Marlborough
pass-through
Peterborough
rough
Scarborough
see through
see-through
the rough
thorough
through
trough
walk through
walk-through
work through

Synonyms and antonyms of look through in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «look through» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOOK THROUGH

Find out the translation of look through to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of look through from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «look through» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

去翻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mirar a través de
570 millions of speakers

English

look through
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

के माध्यम से देखो
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ننظر من خلال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

просматривать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

olhar através
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দেখুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

regarder à travers
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melihat melalui
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Durchblick
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

目を通す
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

를 통해 볼
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Katon liwat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xem xét thông qua
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாருங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पहा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bakmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guardare attraverso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przejrzeć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

переглядати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uita-te prin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοιτάξετε μέσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kyk deur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

titta igenom
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

se gjennom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of look through

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOOK THROUGH»

The term «look through» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOOK THROUGH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «look through» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «look through» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about look through

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10 QUOTES WITH «LOOK THROUGH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word look through.
1
Andre Agassi
I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
2
Brooke Astor
'21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.
3
Natasha Bedingfield
I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.
4
Jackson Browne
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
5
Ken Burns
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
6
Austin Butler
As soon as you start feeling like you can't trust the person and you need to check his phone or have his Facebook password or look through his messages - as soon as that trust barrier is broken - it's hard to keep a relationship going after that.
7
Ellen Goodman
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
8
Barbara Kingsolver
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
9
Chris Kyle
I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
10
Crystal Lowe
What I do love is the traveling... and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera... It's an outlet. It's fun! If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOOK THROUGH»

Discover the use of look through in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to look through and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Look Through My Window
When Emily's parents move to an eighteen-room house so that her four unpredictable cousins can live with them, life for Emily, an only child, is never again the same.
Jean Little, 1995
2
A Look Through My Eyes
The book tells the story about a family and the fears that we encountered as we lived in silence to avoid shame and the possibility of financial destitution through our silent journeys through three different countries.
Everard Knights, 2011
3
Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of The Great ...
The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages.
Maria Kurpaska, 2010
4
Look Through God-Colored Glasses
John Ortberg. Go on from one scene to the next through your day. As I review what happened when I greeted my family, ate breakfast, and went through meetings at work, I see patterns emerging—the ongoing presence of anxiety or ...
John Ortberg, 2009
5
A Look Through Our Eyes
A Look Through Our Eyes is an enchanting journey through the minds of students who share their particular views of life in heartfelt poetry.
Cajon Valley Home School, 2010
6
U.S. Regulation of Hedge Funds
The SEC and its staff have established standards for determining whether to look through an Investing Entity. Those statutory provisions, rules and other standards and their applications are described below. a. The Ten Percent Look-Through ...
‎2005
7
A Look Through My Eyes
A Look Through my Eyes unravels through honest documentation much more than the beginning of one life or an individual's experience in the world. It talks of the journey of a family, a religion, and a culture of pride which, to many, perhaps  ...
Dawn Vandenberg, 2012
8
Murdered innocence Look through the eyes of serial killer ...
Kelley Hunter. Murdered Innocence Look Through the Mind of Serial Killer Keith jesperson ma?“ %% Murdered innocence Look Through the Mind of Serial Killer KeithJesperson. Front Cover.
Kelley Hunter
9
Schizopherenia : A Look Through Indian Culture
1. C. HAPTER History of the evolution of the concept of schizophrenia is usually traced to Benedict Augustin Morel (1809-1873), a Belgian Psychiatrist, who in the 1850s called it Dementia (Démence Précoce) Praecox, a type of stupidité ...
Prabal K. Chattopadhyay, Barna Chattopadhyay, 2009
10
"A Look Through Granny's Window 1"
Marylee Smithwick . A Look Through Granny's Window By Marylee Smithwick 1.
Marylee Smithwick

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOOK THROUGH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term look through is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Baby seal becomes stranded in field of cows - Telegraph
The pup was spotted by a walker who noticed the herd behaving strangely and one look through his telescope revealed they had surrounded ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Johnson County Storm Victims Continue to Recover, Face New …
One man even approached Howard and asked if he could look through the debris for lawn tools. Howard said he told the man to leave, that ... «WSAZ-TV, Jul 15»
3
Montgomery officials wants to dim that urban glow - Houston Chronicle
Eleven year-old Max O'Brien takes a look through a telescope with members ... «Houston Chronicle, Jul 15»
4
Craigslist scam targets homeowner wanting to sell | KXAN.com
It also instructs the potential renter to “look through the windows to see the interiors of the house.” “I'm a little concerned that more people could ... «KXAN.com, Jul 15»
5
More resources write-downs expected as commodities slump
Mr Lawcock said investors "look through" write-downs most of the time and often add them back in to calculate true capital returns. "The market ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
6
Louisville FD experiments with drone technology
At the Old Louisville Fire, the department sent a drone up to look through windows on the second floor. They had received reports that people ... «The Courier-Journal, Jul 15»
7
Aloha toddler survives 3-story fall from window, lands on dad | News …
... community of Aloha, when the two-year-old boy tried to get a look through the window at his father, who was walking the family dog below. «KTVZ, Jul 15»
8
FOX 11 Investigates growing prison staffing shortage - FOX 11 Online
We were offered a look through DOC recruitment videos, the same videos it uses to attract more applicants for correctional officers. Those working on the inside ... «Fox11online.com, Jul 15»
9
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner gives $100M to UC Berkeley to …
“Now we have completely different software and hardware to look through the enormous amounts of data that these telescopes will be ... «Santa Cruz Sentinel, Jul 15»
10
Astronauts' skin gets thinner in space, scientists say - Yahoo News …
So now you get the information without taking biopsies; normally you slice them, you stain them, and then a pathologist would look through ... «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jul 15»

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