英语词汇“lookout”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	lookout
释义	lookout \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: look out 1. : one engaged in keeping watch : scout, watchman < the lookout sang out from his perch high in the shrouds — W.P.Schramm > < lookouts in their towers are watching the forests — Pomona (Calif.) Progress-Bulletin > < sent lookouts … along the road to catch the first glimpse of the approaching delegates — Dorothy C. Fisher > < gambling-house lookouts … pass him in without question — Joseph Mitchell > 2. : an elevated place or structure affording a wide view and often used for keeping watch: as a. : crow's nest 1 b. : one used for the detection of forest fires — called also primary lookout c. : belvedere 3. : the action of keeping watch : a careful looking or watching (as for an object or event) < a sharp lookout must be kept for traffic — Cornelius Vanderbilt b. 1898 > < keeping a keen lookout for opportunities of expanding — A.P.Ryan > 4. : a usually distant view : prospect < the traveller feels … disgusted with the ugliness of the lookout — English Illustrated Magazine > 5. chiefly Britain : a prospective condition : a probability for the future : outlook < it would be a sad lookout for the Australian dramatist if there were no little theaters — Leslie Rees > < growing thin and wizen in a solitary prison is a poor lookout — W.S.Gilbert > 6. : a matter of care or concern to one individual as opposed to others < his lookout that the message gets through, not theirs — Stuart Chase > 7. : a short wooden bracket or cantilever used to support an overhanging portion of a roof or a bay window or a balcony • - on the lookout
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