Meaning of look at sth In English

• 0 to think about a subject carefully so that you can make a decision about it:

  • Management is looking at ways of cutting costs.

• 1 to consider something in a particular way:

  • If I'd had children I might have looked at things differently.

• 2 to read something in order to check it or form an opinion about it:

  • Can you look at my essay sometime?

• 3 If someone, usually an expert, looks at something, they examine it:

  • Did you get the doctor to look at your knee?

• 4 to think about something carefully so that you can make a decision about it:

  • Management is looking at ways of cutting costs.