"take a look" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-us-take a look.ogg [Mid-Atlantic] Forms: takes a look [present, singular, third-person], taking a look [participle, present], took a look [past], taken a look [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> a look}} take a look (third-person singular simple present takes a look, present participle taking a look, simple past took a look, past participle taken a look)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To examine or observe. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: have a look, take a gander Translations (to examine or observe): поглеждам (pogleždam) (Bulgarian), donar un cop d'ull (Catalan), (kàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 看看 (kànkàn) (Chinese Mandarin), [slang] (Chinese Mandarin), (lōu) (Chinese Mandarin), 瞜瞜 (Chinese Mandarin), 䁖䁖 (lōulōu) (Chinese Mandarin), katsoa (Finnish), vilkaista (Finnish), jeter un œil (French), jeter un coup d’œil (French), angucken (German), einen Blick werfen (German), megnéz (Hungarian), dare un'occhiata [idiomatic] (Italian), esaminare (Italian), woglědaś se [perfective] (Lower Sorbian), rzucać okiem [imperfective] (Polish), rzucić okiem [perfective] (Polish), dar uma olhada (Portuguese), dar uma vista de olhos (Portuguese), arunca o privire (Romanian), посмотре́ть (posmotrétʹ) (Russian), взгляну́ть (vzgljanútʹ) (Russian), dari n'ucchiata (Sicilian), echar un vistazo (Spanish), echar una mirada (Spanish), echar una ojeada (Spanish), göz atmak (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
          "word": "katsoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
          "word": "vilkaista"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
          "word": "jeter un œil"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
          "word": "jeter un coup d’œil"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to examine or observe",
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        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
          "word": "einen Blick werfen"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
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          "sense": "to examine or observe",
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          "sense": "to examine or observe",
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          "sense": "to examine or observe",
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          "sense": "to examine or observe",
          "word": "echar una ojeada"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to examine or observe",
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      "sense": "to examine or observe",
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      "roman": "kàn",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "看"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "看看"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
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      ],
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    },
    {
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lōu",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "䁖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "瞜瞜"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lōulōu",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "䁖䁖"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "katsoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "vilkaista"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "jeter un œil"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "jeter un coup d’œil"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "angucken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "einen Blick werfen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "megnéz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "word": "dare un'occhiata"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "esaminare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "rzucać okiem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "rzucić okiem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "dar uma olhada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "dar uma vista de olhos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "arunca o privire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "posmotrétʹ",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "посмотре́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vzgljanútʹ",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "взгляну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "dari n'ucchiata"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "woglědaś se"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "echar un vistazo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "echar una mirada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "echar una ojeada"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to examine or observe",
      "word": "göz atmak"
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  "word": "take a look"
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