different between look vs stamp

English

Etymology

From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English l?cian, from Proto-West Germanic *l?k?n. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. The English word, however, is cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Middle Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken and Alemannic German luege. Possibly related to Sanskrit ???? (lok, “to see, behold”) *lewk- (“light”) in the sense of "illuminating" (cf. related word ???? (ruc) "to shine, illuminate")

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k/
  • Rhymes: -?k
  • Homophone: luck (most of Northern England)
• (some Northern En?lish dialects, esp. Bolton) IPA^(key): /lu?k/
  • Rhymes: -u?k
  • Homophone: Luke
• (Liverpool usually) IPA^(key): /lu?x/
  • Rhymes: -u?x

Verb

look (third-person singular simple present looks, present participle looking, simple past and past participle looked)

1. To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:look

   1. (intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with "at".

      Troponyms: glance; see also Thesaurus:stare
   2. (transitive, colloquial) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.

2. To appear, to seem.
   • c. 1701–03, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication:

     THERE is a plea?ure in owning obligations which it is a plea?ure to have received; but ?hould I publi?h any favours done me by your Lord?hip, I am afraid it would look more like vanity, than gratitude.

   • 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.

   • 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves

     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.

3. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
4. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
5. To face or present a view.
   • 1769, Benjamin Blayney (editor), King James Bible, Oxford standard text, Ezekiel, xi, 1,

     Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward:

6. To expect or anticipate.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book VI, Canto XI, 1750, The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 139,

     Looking each Hour into Death's Mouth to fall,
7. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
   • c. 1815, Lord Byron, Waterloo,

     Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,

8. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
   • 1898, Samuel Butler (translator), Homer, The Odyssey,

     "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. […]

9. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Scene 2, 1831, George Steevens (editor), The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, [Publication of the copy annotated by Steevens], Volume 1, page 254,

     I have […] more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.

10. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.

    • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].

11. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
    • c. 1552–1599, Edmund Spenser, unidentified sonnet,

      Looking my love, I go from place to place, / Like a young fawn that late hath lost the hind; / And seek each where, where last I saw her face, / Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind.

12. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
    • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy, Act 3, Scene 1, 1701, The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas Written by John Dryden, Esq, Volume 2, page 464,

      A Spirit fit to start into an Empire, / And look the World to Law.

    • 1882, Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science

      Ovid might have evaded her entreaties by means of an excuse. But her eyes were irresistible: they looked him into submission in an instant.

14. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.

Usage notes

Though the use of the pronunciation /lu?k/ is now restricted to northern English dialects, it was formerly more widespread. For example, it is mentioned without comment in Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

look

1. Pay attention.

Translations

Synonyms

• see, so, well, hey

Noun

look (plural looks)

1. The action of looking; an attempt to see.

2. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.

   • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […]

3. A facial expression.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• kolo, kool

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch look, from Old Dutch *l?k, from Proto-Germanic *laukaz. Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, English leek, Danish løg, Swedish lök. More at leek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?k/
• Hyphenation: look
• Rhymes: -o?k

Noun

look n or m (uncountable)

1. Plants of the genus Allium, especially garlic.
2. Several related herbs, like chive, garlic, shallot and leek.

Derived terms

• lookachtig
• lookallergie
• lookbed
• lookgeur
• looksaus
• looksmaak
• looksoep
• lookstank
• lookworst

-plant species:

• bieslook (“chives”)
• berglook (“keeled garlic”)
• daslook (“bear leek”)
• eslook (“shallot”)
• knoflook (“garlic”)
• kraailook (“crow garlic”)
• lookprei
• look-zonder-look
• moeslook (“field garlic”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?k/
• Hyphenation: look
• Rhymes: -o?k

Verb

look

1. singular past indicative of luiken

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English look.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luk/
• Hyphenation: look
• Rhymes: -uk

Noun

look m (plural looks)

1. A look, (clothing) style, appearance.

Derived terms

• horrorlook

Etymology 4

Related to luiken, cognate with English lock.

Noun

look m (plural loken, diminutive [please provide])

1. A gap, space between barrels or between the strings in rope.
2. A section, division (archaic).

Anagrams

• kool

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English look.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luk/

Noun

look m (plural looks)

1. A style; appearance; look.

Derived terms

• relooker
• relooking

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English look.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?luk/, [?luk]

Noun

look m (plural looks)

1. (informal) a look; style, appearance

References

• “look” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?lo?ok/

Noun

look

1. A bay.

English

Etymology

From Middle English stampen (“to pound, crush”), from assumed Old English *stampian, variant of Old English stempan (“to crush, pound, pound in mortar, stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *stamp?n, *stampijan, from Proto-Germanic *stamp?n?, *stampijan? (“to trample, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *stemb- (“to trample down”). Cognate with Dutch stampen (“to stamp, pitch”), German stampfen (“to stamp”), Danish stampe (“to stamp”), Swedish stampa (“to stomp”), Occitan estampar, Polish st?pa? (“to step, treat”). See also stomp, step.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

stamp (plural stamps)

1. An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.

2. An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.

3. A device for stamping designs.

4. A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.

5. A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other costs such as tax or licence fees.

6. (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
7. (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
8. A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
9. Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
   • 1863, Sporting Magazine (volume 42, page 290)

     At a short distance from her were a pair of bathers of a very different stamp, if their operations deserved the name of bathing at all, viz., two girls on the confines of womanhood, presenting strong contrast to each other […]

Synonyms

• (paper used to indicate payment has been paid): postage stamp, revenue stamp, tax stamp

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stamp (third-person singular simple present stamps, present participle stamping, simple past and past participle stamped)

1. (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

2. (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

3. (transitive) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

   • He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
4. (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.

5. (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.

6. (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.

7. (transitive, figuratively) To mark; to impress.
   • , Book IV, Chapter X

     God […] has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.

Synonyms

• (mark by pressing quickly and heavily): emboss, dent
• (give an official marking to): impress, imprint

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• tamps

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

stamp

1. first-person singular present indicative of stampen
2. imperative of stampen

Anagrams

• spamt

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am?p

Noun

stamp

1. indefinite accusative singular of stampur

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stamp

1. imperative of stampa

Welsh

Etymology

From English stamp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stamp/

Noun

stamp m or f (plural stampiau or stamps, not mutable)

1. stamp (for postage, validation on a document, evidence of payment, etc.)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “stamp”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies