"look to" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "looks to",
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    {
      "form": "looking to",
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      "form": "looked to",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, to."
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        {
          "text": "Whenever I'm upset, I look to Mary to cheer me up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:",
          "text": "But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ \"He's there, I tell you,\" he persisted. \"And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone."
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          "reward",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 96 3 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "polagatʹsja",
          "sense": "to seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone",
          "word": "полагаться"
        }
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          "ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back;[…].",
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      "glosses": [
        "To take care of."
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        "(idiomatic) To take care of."
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          "roman": "griža se",
          "sense": "to take care of",
          "word": "грижа се"
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          "roman": "prismatrivatʹ",
          "sense": "to take care of",
          "word": "присматривать"
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        {
          "text": "I think that cat was looking to bite me if I hadn't run away!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "A storm looks to be on the way.",
          "type": "example"
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      "glosses": [
        "To intend to; to prepare to; to seem likely to."
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        "(idiomatic) To intend to; to prepare to; to seem likely to."
      ],
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  "word": "look to"
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    {
      "form": "looking to",
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    {
      "form": "looked to",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, to."
      ],
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        },
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          "ref": "1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:",
          "text": "But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ \"He's there, I tell you,\" he persisted. \"And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone."
      ],
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          "inspiration",
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        ],
        [
          "advice",
          "advice"
        ],
        [
          "reward",
          "reward"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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          "text": "He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back;[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take care of."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To take care of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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          "text": "I think that cat was looking to bite me if I hadn't run away!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "A storm looks to be on the way.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To intend to; to prepare to; to seem likely to."
      ],
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        [
          "prepare",
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        "(idiomatic) To intend to; to prepare to; to seem likely to."
      ],
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polagatʹsja",
      "sense": "to seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone",
      "word": "полагаться"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "griža se",
      "sense": "to take care of",
      "word": "грижа се"
    },
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      "roman": "prismatrivatʹ",
      "sense": "to take care of",
      "word": "присматривать"
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