look through

[look-throo]

look-through

[look-throo]
noun
the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
Also called see-through.
Compare look-down.


Origin:
1935–40
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Look through is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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look through
 
vb (or tr, adverb)
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

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