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单词 look-over
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look-overn.

Brit. /ˈlʊkəʊvə/, U.S. /ˈlʊkˌoʊvər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: look v., over adv.
Etymology: < look v. + over adv., after to look over at look v. Phrasal verbs 1. Compare earlier looking over n. at looking n. Compounds 3.
colloquial.
A (quick) inspection or examination. Frequently in to give (a person or thing) a look-over.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun]
surveyancec1386
surveying1467
survey1548
view1569
reviewing1573
review1604
traverse1658
retrospection1661
surveyala1677
reconnaissance1815
reconnoissance1824
look-see1876
look-over1883
reconnoitre1891
poke round1901
traversal1903
recce1941
tour d'horizon1952
1883 ‘Whitebelt’ Kelvington xxvii. 229 Give me a look over, Fred, and see whether I am properly groomed.
1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 183 Then I..took a stroll around to see that no one had been givin' us the look-over.
1952 Irish Digest Feb. 8/2 I have myself treated one farmer..who was sent to me for a general ‘look over’. This disclosed a malunited fracture of the ulna.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 7 July 8 b/1 Most other Montana cities had burned themselves out by Monday, but one permanent fixture from the Bicentennial was still getting a look-over in the hamlet of White Sulphur Springs.
2007 A. Moore Swap (2008) v. 32 The boys gave Harvey a look-over and passed some inaudible but apparently hilarious remark.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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