"look out" meaning in English

See look out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: En-uk-look out.ogg , En-au-look out.ogg Forms: looks out [present, singular, third-person], looking out [participle, present], looked out [participle, past], looked out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} look out (third-person singular simple present looks out, present participle looking out, simple past and past participle looked out)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: take care, watch out Translations (to be vigilant and aware): حا َسـِب (Arabic), внимавам (vnimavam) (Bulgarian), 当心 (dāngxīn) (Chinese Mandarin), 小心 (xiǎoxīn) (Chinese Mandarin), 注意 (zhùyì) (Chinese Mandarin), varoa (Finnish), olla varuillaan (Finnish), prendre garde (French), aufpassen (German), vigyáz (Hungarian), óvatos (Hungarian), fare attenzione (Italian), stare attento (Italian), badare (Italian), uzmanies (Latvian), dėmesio (Lithuanian), സൂക്ഷിക്കുക (sūkṣikkuka) (Malayalam), مواظب بودن (movâzeb budan) (Persian), uważać [imperfective] (Polish), fi atent (Romanian), быть настороже́ (bytʹ nastorožé) (Russian), быть осторо́жным (bytʹ ostoróžnym) (Russian), se upp (Swedish), cảnh giác (Vietnamese), để ý (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-look_out-en-verb-8wlO-iiA Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 29 35 15 4 17 Disambiguation of 'to be vigilant and aware': 90 4 2 2 2
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) To find by looking: to hunt out. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to find by looking): намирам (namiram) (Bulgarian), cercare (Italian), cercare con lo sguardo (Italian)
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  3. To be facing (used with "on"). Translations (to be facing): гледам към (gledam kǎm) (Bulgarian), affacciarsi (Italian), essere rivolto (Italian), dare su (Italian), mirar a (Spanish), dar a (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-look_out-en-verb-As40x18P Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 29 35 15 4 17 Disambiguation of 'to be facing': 7 7 78 2 6
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
    Sense id: en-look_out-en-verb-0yj9YLl2
  5. (informal, intransitive) Clipping of look out for (someone) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, intransitive Alternative form of: look out for (extra: someone)
    Sense id: en-look_out-en-verb-bA9Y0WQh Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 29 35 15 4 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: look out for someone Translations (to look from within to the outside): أَطَلَّ (ʔaṭalla) (Arabic), طلّ (ṭall) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), affacciài (Campidanese Sardinian), katsoa ulos (Finnish), affaccassi (Gallurese), hinausschauen (German), kinéz (Hungarian), affacciarsi (Italian), guardare fuori (Italian), video (Latin), നോക്കുക (nōkkuka) (Malayalam), pass opp (Norwegian), wyglądać [imperfective] (Polish), wyjrzeć [perfective] (Polish), выгля́дывать (vygljádyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́глянуть (výgljanutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), accarare [Logudorese] (Sardinian), acciarassi (Sassarese), titta ut (Swedish), вигляда́ти (vyhljadáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), ви́глянути (výhljanuty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), båker (Walloon)
Disambiguation of 'to look from within to the outside': 10 26 10 25 30

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "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:",
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          "text": "I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book.",
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          "sense": "to find by looking",
          "word": "cercare"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "to find by looking",
          "word": "cercare con lo sguardo"
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          "roman": "gledam kǎm",
          "sense": "to be facing",
          "word": "гледам към"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be facing",
          "word": "affacciarsi"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be facing",
          "word": "essere rivolto"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to be facing",
          "word": "dare su"
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          "sense": "to be facing",
          "word": "mirar a"
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          "sense": "to be facing",
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          "text": "On the morning of the eighth day, he found himself looking out across the river.",
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          "word": "look out for"
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          "text": "Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.",
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      "word": "olla varuillaan"
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      "sense": "to be vigilant and aware",
      "word": "aufpassen"
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      "sense": "to be vigilant and aware",
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      "word": "để ý"
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      "roman": "gledam kǎm",
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      "word": "гледам към"
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      "word": "affacciarsi"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to be facing",
      "word": "essere rivolto"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to be facing",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be facing",
      "word": "mirar a"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be facing",
      "word": "dar a"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "namiram",
      "sense": "to find by looking",
      "word": "намирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to find by looking",
      "word": "cercare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to find by looking",
      "word": "cercare con lo sguardo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "look out"
}

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