Look for vs. look at

When you look for something, you search for it trying to locate or find it. When you look at something you know where it is and you see it.

As you know, ‘look at’ and ‘look for’ are phrasal verbs which there are a lot of in the English language while in most other languages there are no phrasal verbs at all. In German ‘to look for’ means ‘suchen’ and in Russian ‘искать’.

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How about “look up”? This means to consult a reference source, like a dictionary or encyclopedia, to determine the meaning of a word or to verify a fact. Though this has rapidly been replaced by the verb “Google” - let me Google it!

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You will find more phrasal verbs with ‘look’ in the phrasal verb with look test.

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