look out
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VerbEdit
look out (third-person singular simple present looks out, present participle looking out, simple past and past participle looked out)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
- look out, and you will see the rain has stopped
- to look out the window
- (intransitive, idiomat) to be vigilant and aware
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.”
- While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
- (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 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. 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.
- 1891, Henry James, The Pupil, page 144
SynonymsEdit
- (be vigilant): watch out
TranslationsEdit
to look from within to the outside
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to be vigilant and aware
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