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look out en · VERB

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
   • From a peanut whistle to a cannon's roar/When Fibber runs to open that closet door/Look out! [clattering sounds] 1942, Eddie House, Billy Mills, “The Sound Effects Man”:
   • 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.” 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
   • While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To find by looking: to hunt out.
   • Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak. 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, published 2006, page 14:
   • I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book. 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
   • Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton. 1891, Henry James, The Pupil^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lesson_of_the_Master,_The_Marriages,_The_Pupil,_Brooksmith,_The_Solution,_Sir_Edmund_Orme_(New_York_%26_London:_Macmillan_%26_Co.,_1892)/The_Pupil/Chapter_5), page 144:
3. To be facing.
   • A spacious room that looks out on the sea.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
   • On the morning of the eighth day, he found himself looking out across the river. 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 159:
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, intransitive) Ellipsis of look out for (someone)
   alt of look out for
   • Hey man, I know it costs four dollars but I only have three. Can you please look out?

Forms

Deriveds

look out for someone

Synonyms

take care · watch out

Translations (57)

pl wyjrzeć (to look from within to the outside) · no pass opp (to look from within to the outside) · it badare (to be vigilant and aware) · uk вигляда́ти (to look from within to the outside) · cmn 注意 (to be vigilant and aware) · ru быть осторо́жным (to be vigilant and aware) · hu óvatos (to be vigilant and aware) · ru вы́глянуть (to look from within to the outside) · la video (to look from within to the outside) · sc affacciài (to look from within to the outside) · fi varoa (to be vigilant and aware) · pl wyglądać (to look from within to the outside) · es mirar a (to be facing) · es dar a (to be facing) · ru быть настороже́ (to be vigilant and aware) · ary طلّ (to look from within to the outside) · de hinausschauen (to look from within to the outside) · hu kinéz (to look from within to the outside) · eo elrigardi (to look from within to the outside) · ml സൂക്ഷിക്കുക (to be vigilant and aware) · vi cảnh giác (to be vigilant and aware) · fr prendre garde (to be vigilant and aware) · it affacciarsi (to look from within to the outside) · it guardare fuori (to look from within to the outside) · ar حا َسـِب (to be vigilant and aware) · wa båker (to look from within to the outside) · lt dėmesio (to be vigilant and aware) · de aufpassen (to be vigilant and aware) · bg гледам към (to be facing) · sdn affaccassi (to look from within to the outside) · bg внимавам (to be vigilant and aware) · sv titta ut (to look from within to the outside) · cmn 小心 (to be vigilant and aware) · ru выгля́дывать (to look from within to the outside) · it dare su (to be facing) · lv uzmanies (to be vigilant and aware) · it cercare (to find by looking) · sv se upp (to be vigilant and aware) · cmn 当心 (to be vigilant and aware) · fi olla varuillaan (to be vigilant and aware) · it fare attenzione (to be vigilant and aware) · hu vigyáz (to be vigilant and aware) · uk ви́глянути (to look from within to the outside) · it stare attento (to be vigilant and aware) · fi katsoa ulos (to look from within to the outside) · it affacciarsi (to be facing) · ro fi atent (to be vigilant and aware) · sdc acciarassi (to look from within to the outside) · ml നോക്കുക (to look from within to the outside) · vi để ý (to be vigilant and aware) · fa مواظب بودن (to be vigilant and aware) · it essere rivolto (to be facing) · ar أَطَلَّ (to look from within to the outside) · sc accarare (to look from within to the outside) · it cercare con lo sguardo (to find by looking) · bg намирам (to find by looking) · pl uważać (to be vigilant and aware)