TAKE A LOOK

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does take a look mean? 

• TAKE A LOOK (verb)
  The verb TAKE A LOOK has 1 sense:

1. look at with attention

  Familiarity information: TAKE A LOOK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE A LOOK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look at with attention

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

get a load; have a look; take a look

Context example:

Get a load of this pretty woman!

Hypernyms (to "take a look" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They take a look up the hill

 Context examples 

Bangs, just to take a look at you, dear, and see that we start right.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But if that be so, we may step into the court and take a look at the windows.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Let’s take a look back for a second so that I can show you what you’ve been dealing with in your career.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“I shall probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up.”

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

In what is called a target-of-opportunity observation, NuSTAR was redirected to take a look at high-energy X-rays from this source in the range of 3 to 79 kiloelectron volts.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

It will be a great help to have cool, impartial persons take a look at it, and tell me what they think of it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"That's true. Don't you wish you could take a look forward and see where we shall all be then? I do," returned Laurie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"We'll take a look," he said doubtfully, "just a look."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)