Definition of "look out"

look out

verb
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.
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  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. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. (transitive, idiomatic) To find by looking: to hunt out.
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  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, page 144
  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 […]
3. To be facing (used with "on").
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look,‎ out.
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  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

Definition of "look out"

look out

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