look-through

[ look-throo ]

/ ˈlʊkˌθru /

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noun

the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.

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Also called see-through.

Compare look-down.

Origin of look-through

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby look-through

look-see, look sharp, look sideways at, look someone in the face, look the other way, look-through, look through rose-colored glasses, look to, look to one's laurels, lookup, look up and down

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How to use look-through in a sentence

The more we try to look through the gauze, the more it all begins to look like gauze.
A Novel Nearly Impossible to Review|Nicholas Mancusi|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What if, say, the FBI wants to look through video of political protests?
Your Arrest Video Is Going Online. Who Will See It?|Jacob Siegel|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Look through that PDF I just linked to and feast on the meager amounts earmarked for democracy and assistance programs.
Is It Just Me or Is the World Exploding? So Why Isn’t Obama Doing More?|Michael Tomasky|July 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One look through the Yelp reviews will tell you all you need to know.
Where to Celebrate the Olympics by Drinking Russian Style|William O’Connor|February 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Still, she wanted me to look through her iTunes receipts and tell her what I saw.
Woman Finds Mysterious Charges on Her iTunes Bill: A Modern Whodunit!|Nancy Neufeld Callaway|January 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He almost slew me with his eyes; I cant see why such naughty hearts should look through such eyes!
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
The orange door was closed but Frey managed to get in a look through the side windows of the studio.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
It will be an advantage now to look through “Conciliation with the Colonies” and note its general plan of structure.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Mademoiselle had far better look through the little window than trust such a man.
The Light That Lures|Percy Brebner
Leam looked at him with those wonderful eyes of hers, that seemed somehow to look through him.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various

British Dictionary definitions for look-through

look through

verb

(intr, preposition or tr, adverb) to examine, esp cursorilyhe looked through his notes before the lecture

(intr, preposition) to ignore (a person) deliberatelywhenever he meets his ex-girlfriend, she looks straight through him

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