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動詞

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

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.

   Synonyms: take care, watch out

   While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To find by looking: to hunt out.
   • 1891, Henry James, The Pupil‎, page 144:

     Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.

   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, published 2006, page 14:

     Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book.

3. To be facing.

   A spacious room that looks out on the sea.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look,‎ out.
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 159:

     On the morning of the eighth day, he found himself looking out across the river.

5. (informal, intransitive) Clipping of look out for (someone)

   Hey man, I know it costs four dollars but I only have three. Can you please look out?

6. (African-American Vernacular) To be supportive or protective of someone.

   You better look out for your little brother.

派生語

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語源

Deverbal from look out.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlʊkaʊt/

名詞

lookout (plural lookouts)

1. A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area.
   • 1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post‎, sourced from XIAMEN (Amoy), China, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017, Politics‎:

     Gulangyu island has a spectacular crows-nest lookout reached by winding stone staircases. From so high, the Nationalist islands look like lumps of cookie batter dropped onto the smooth harbor, with picturesque sailing junks not far away.

2. A session of watching for an approaching enemy, police, etc.

   We kept a lookout all night, but nobody came.

3. A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, danger, etc.

   Synonyms: lookout man, watchout

   Coordinate term: watchman

   The raid failed when the lookout noticed the enemy group.

   • 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Absence of lookouts contributed to Margam deaths”, in Rail, page 20:

     A lack of lookouts was partially responsible for the deaths of two track workers at Margam East Junction in south Wales on July 3, according to an interim report published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch on December 5. [...] "The absence of a lookout with no involvement in the work activity removed a vital safety barrier," says the report.

4. A subject for observation; a prospect or view.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 6, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     Looking, seeing: search or searching; Looking-for (B.), expectation; Lookout, a careful watching for: an elevated place from which to observe: one engaged in watching. And, you know, she OUGHT to keep enough to pay for her season-ticket; but no, she comes to me about that, and I have to find the money."
     "It's a poor lookout," said Mrs. Morel bitterly.

5. One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. (used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in a possessive form).

   Every person's interest is his own lookout.

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 27”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     "Strickland's painting in my studio."
     "Well?"
     […]
     "Strickland can't work with anyone else in the studio."
     "Damn it all, it's your studio. That's his lookout."

6. An observation window.
   • 1941 February, Railway Magazine, page 75, untitled paragraph:

     Twenty-one of these vehicles were later converted into bogie brake vans for freight service. [...] The extreme width over the side lookouts is 9 ft.

7. (construction) A joist that extends in cantilever out from the exterior wall (or wall plate) of a building, supporting the roof sheathing and providing a nailing surface for the fascia boards.

   Synonym: outlooker

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Further reading

• “lookout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lookout”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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