Look vs Apple - What's the difference?
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To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
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*170? , (Joseph Addison),
*:but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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*:Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
(lb) To give an appearance of being.
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To search for, to try to find.
To face or present a view.
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*Bible, (w) xi. 1
*:the east gatewhich looketh eastward
To expect or anticipate.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:looking each hour into death's mouth to fall
(lb) To express or manifest by a look.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
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To make sure of, to see to.
*1898 , (Homer), (Samuel Butler) (translator),
*:"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.
To show oneself in looking.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:My toes look through the overleather.
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..
To seek; to search for.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Looking my love, I go from place to place.
To expect.
:(Shakespeare)
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A spirit fit to start into an empire, / And look the world to law.
(senseid)(lb) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
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The action of looking, an attempt to see.
(label) Physical appearance, visual impression.
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A facial expression.
A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica , cultivated in temperate climates.
* c. 1378 , (William Langland), Piers Plowman :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2013 , John Vallins, The Guardian , 28 Oct 2013:
Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as (custard apple), (thorn apple) etc.
* 1658 , trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick , I.16:
* 1784 , (James Cook), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean , II:
* 1825 , Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence , 2nd edition, p. 565:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:
* 1985 , (Barry Reckord), The White Witch :
A tree of the genus Malus , especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
* 1913 , John Weathers, Commercial Gardening , p. 38:
* 2000 PA Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History , p. 227:
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* 2012 , Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid , p. 77:
The wood of the apple tree.
(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears , slang for stairs.
(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
1000 English basic words
As nouns the difference between look and apple
is that look is the action of looking, an attempt to see while apple is a common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.As proper nouns the difference between look and apple
is that look is {{surname|from=given names} while Apple is a nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.As a verb look
is to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.look
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Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
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Hyponyms
* stare * gazeDerived terms
* look about * look after * look around * look at * look away * look back * look down on * look down upon * look for * look forward * look forward to * look in on * look into * look on * look out * look out for * look over * look through * look to * look up * look up to * look upon * forelook * lookalike, look-alike * look alive * lookee * looker * lookit * look lively * lookout, look-out * look-see * look before you leap * look down one's nose * look daggers at * look here * look oneself * look sharp * look somebody in the eye * look the other way * look what the cat's brought in * mislook * onlooker * overlook * relook * underlookNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* have a look * if looks could kill * lookist * outlook * relookStatistics
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(wikipedia apple)Alternative forms
* apl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple .
- Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple .
- Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
- In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
- Otaheite […] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples , which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
- Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
- Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple […].
- Woman ate the apple , and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
- If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple ) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
- Other fruit trees, like apples , need well-drained soil.