"take a look" meaning in English

See take a look in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: en-us-take a look.ogg 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), چاوێک دان (çawêk dan) (Central Kurdish), (kàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 看看 (kànkàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 瞜 /䁖 (lōu) [slang] (Chinese Mandarin), 瞜瞜 /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), çehv'ek dan (Northern Kurdish), 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), cymryd golwg (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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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",
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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",
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      "sense": "to examine or observe",
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