LOOK INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look into mean? 

• LOOK INTO (verb)
  The verb LOOK INTO has 2 senses:

1. investigate scientifically

2. examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition

  Familiarity information: LOOK INTO used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK INTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Investigate scientifically

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

investigate; look into

Context example:

Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese

Hypernyms (to "look into" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "look into"):

explore; research; search (inquire into)

explore (travel to or penetrate into)

examine; probe (question or examine thoroughly and closely)

research (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner)

experiment (to conduct a test or investigation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

check; check into; check out; check over; check up on; go over; look into; suss out

Context example:

Check out the engine

Hypernyms (to "look into" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Verb group:

check; check off; mark; mark off; tick; tick off (put a check mark on or near or next to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "look into"):

follow; keep an eye on; observe; watch; watch over (follow with the eyes or the mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't look into the story

 Context examples 

“Well, well, I have a clear day, and I shall be happy to look into the matter,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“With your permission,” said he at last, “I should like to go upstairs and look into the matter.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After walking two or three times along that part of the lane, she was tempted, by the pleasantness of the morning, to stop at the gates and look into the park.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If you need money from a government program, look into that too, on March 27.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I will look into them to-morrow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the power of ALMA, which allowed a detailed look into the star-forming region AFGL 5142, astronomers could pinpoint where phosphorus-bearing molecules, like phosphorus monoxide, form.

(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)

I shall look into the matter between this and then.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will look into it—cost me what it may, I will look into it—and directly too—by daylight.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Based on these findings, researchers have started to look into the specific gene variants involved.

(Can't Sleep? Could Be Down to Genetics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Miss Mowcher continuing all the time to shake her head (which was very much on one side), and to look into the air with one eye, and to wink with the other.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)