look like

From Middle English loken like, equivalent to look + like (conjunction and preposition).

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look like (third-person singular simple present looks like, present participle looking like, simple past and past participle looked like)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look,‎ like (to seem, to appear).

   It looks like rain later today.

   It looks like it will rain later today.

   It looks like I'm stuck with you.

   Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.

   You wake up on what looks like Salisbury Plain, but in Africa.

   The port does not look like much from the ground.

   (UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.

• if it looks like a duck

• look alike

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