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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lookout
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sharp
▪ I instructed Peter to keep a sharp lookout for enemy fighters and then to follow me.
▪ Of course they kept a sharp lookout in such congested waters for their own safety.
■ VERB
keep
▪ I instructed Peter to keep a sharp lookout for enemy fighters and then to follow me.
▪ Of course they kept a sharp lookout in such congested waters for their own safety.
▪ Custodians keep an alert lookout for any female without a wedding ring, as lipstick is not good for marble.
▪ Meanwhile, keep on the lookout for those eye-glazing trial depositions.
▪ From his present position, Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup.
▪ And send a couple of your boys up here to keep a lookout.
▪ Then, with a watchful eye, it can keep a lookout for potential prey without revealing its presence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both Mr and Mrs Tiller were always on the lookout for any child or woman with potential.
▪ From February to July he was on the lookout for blossoms.
▪ He resolved the problem by adopting the role of lookout, warning the men when strangers, particularly police, were approaching.
▪ I told Thompson to alert all the guards on duty to be on the lookout for a small brown rodent.
▪ My lookout tree is a red spruce.
▪ Please be on the lookout for talent in your classes and give serious consideration to auditioning yourself.
▪ So I was on the lookout.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lookout

Lookout \Look"out`\, n.

  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event.

  2. The place from which such observation is made.

  3. A person engaged in watching; a sentinel; a sentry.

  4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.

    on the lookout for in search of; looking for.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lookout

also look-out, "person who stands watch or acts as a scout," 1690s, from look + out. Verbal phrase look out "be on the watch" attested from c.1600.

Wiktionary
lookout

n. 1 A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area. 2 A person on watch for approaching enemy, police, etc. 3 A subject for observation; a prospect or view. 4 One's perspective, outlook; hence, one's responsibility. ''(used with a possessive pronoun or a noun in a possessive form)''.

WordNet
lookout
  1. n. a person employed to watch for something to happen [syn: lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket]

  2. an elevated post affording a wide view [syn: observation post]

  3. a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings [syn: observation tower, lookout station, observatory]

  4. the act of looking out [syn: outlook]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Lookout

A lookout or look-out is a person on a ship in charge of the observation of the sea for hazards, other ships, land, etc. Lookouts report anything they see and or hear. When reporting contacts, lookouts give information such as, bearing of the object, which way the object is headed, target angles and position angles and what the contact is. Lookouts should be thoroughly familiar with the various types of distress signals they may encounter at sea.

Lookout (disambiguation)

Lookout may refer to one of the following:

Lookout (horse)

Lookout (1890 in Kentucky – ?) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1893 Kentucky Derby.

Lookout was a chestnut colt with full (up to the knee and hock joints) white stockings on three of his legs. His sire, Troubadour, was the 1886 Suburban Handicap winner, while his damsire, King Alfonso, was a successful flat-racer and sire.

Lookout (architecture)

A lookout, lookout rafter or roof outlooker is a wooden 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. When not exposed it serves to fasten the finish materials of the eaves.

Lookout (company)

Lookout (previously known as Flexilis) is a San Francisco-based mobile security company. It provides security to both private and business mobile devices.

Usage examples of "lookout".

An Aberdonian, he resembled one of the black Aberdeen Angus cattle from his native territory: black curls tumbling over a broad forehead, liquid dark eyes always on the lookout for the red rag, wide cheekbones seeming to drag his fleshy nose across his face, full lips always moist.

There were six men about on the deck, watching the sail or keeping lookout, rand the steersman on the steerboard side of the aftercastle raised a hand to Thorsten to signal all was well as he and Aylwin climbed the ladder to the higher deck.

A Chilean man-of-war, the Amazonas, was anchored at Panama on the lookout for a torpedo launch that was expected to arrive for the Peruvian government from New York.

The lookout saw the trouble coming and slid to safety down the backstay, but the mast itself whipped forward under the sudden stress.

Every kitchen maid and barman, matelot and mechanic, hackney driver and barrowman is on the lookout should they make any move to leave the pub.

Siberia, to be on the lookout for any performing bears that demonstrated any tricks or abilities out of the ordinary.

On the bridge, at the bullnose and on the fantail, lookouts were combing the sky with binoculars.

The Hill of Pan became his lookout, its bottom now a formidable rampart of blocks from the gymnasium, and huge stone walls cut off both sides of Canopic Avenue at its intersection with Royal Avenue.

Arm ten good men from the boarding squad, and meet the city manager and me at the Cathedral Parkway lookout.

W, on a spur of Lookout Ridge a mile or two north of the Colville River.

There were two lookouts in the crosstrees, lashed there for safety, and two extra men in the eyes of the ship, peering through the murk.

It was the Claw that they had been ordered to be on the lookout for and this guest was human.

Communications broke down during the holocaust and, without the modern fire jumpers and lookout advance warnings we have today, Hellmouth was doomed.

The rumors spread from the lookouts, excited men who came to Lee with the first reports of troop movement, clouds of dust rising from long lines of black cannon.

We shot along through the open country, between the last Germans and the edge of Malines, at a fairly good rate, and kept a lookout for the English flag, which we had been given to understand was flying from the tower of the Cathedral.