look out

See also lookout

English

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Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To look from within to the outside

   Look out, and you will see the rain has stopped.

2. (intransitive, idiomatic) Be vigilant and aware.

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

3. (transitive) To find by looking: to hunt out.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 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. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58

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

Synonyms

• (be vigilant): watch out

Translations

to look from within to the outside

• Arabic: أطل (ar) ('aTalla)
• Italian: affacciarsi (it)
• Latin: video (la)
• Russian: (imperfective) выглядывать (ru) (vygljádyvat'), (perfective) выглянуть (ru) (výgljanut')
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: affacciài

  Gallurese Sardinian: affaccassi

  Logudorese Sardinian: accarare

• Sassarese Sardinian: acciarassi
• Swedish: titta ut (sv)

to be vigilant and aware

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: быть настороже (ru) (byt' nastorožé), быть осторожным (ru) (byt' ostoróžnym)

• Swedish: se upp (sv)

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