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  • look-through
    look-through
    noun
    the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • look through
    look through
    verb
    to examine, esp cursorily
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look-through

American  
[look-throo] / ˈlʊkˌθru /

noun

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

look through British  

verb

  1. to examine, esp cursorily

    he looked through his notes before the lecture

  2. (intr, preposition) to ignore (a person) deliberately

    whenever he meets his ex-girlfriend, she looks straight through him
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of look-through

First recorded in 1935–40

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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