Definition of "outlook"
outlook1
noun
plural outlooks
verb
third-person singular simple present outlooks, present participle outlooking, simple past and past participle outlooked
(intransitive, archaic, literary) To face or look in an outward direction.
Quotations
This old man with the ſythe, olde father Tyme they call, / And hir his daughter Trueth, which holdeth yonder Booke, / Whome he out of his rocke hath brought forth to vs all, / From whence this many yeares ſhe durſt not once out looke.
1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Queene Elizabeth”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, page 1792, column 1
[...] marke his colour and his shape, that is to say, a comely well proportioned head, with an outlooking eye, good well raised shoulders, and a thicke large breast [...]
1610, Gervase Markham, Markhams Maister-peece, or, What Doth a Horse-man Lack? London, Chapter 103 “Certaine speciall Notes to be obserued in buying of a horse,” pp. 204-205
(transitive, archaic) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
Quotations
[...] I drew this gallant head of war,And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world,To outlook conquest and to win renownEven in the jaws of danger and of death.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
There made they stand; there euerie eye, fixt on each other, stroueWho should outlooke his mate amaz’d:The spelling has been modernized.
, Homer, “Book XI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, page 235
[...] the news of the judgment to come, in the Preachers mouth, will be under an heavy suspicion of fraud and cheat, and in fine, pass but for fictions [...] too weak to outlook a brave glittering temptation:
1645, Henry Hammond, XXXI Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, London: Richard Royston, published 1684, Sermon 8, p. 519
The pain which the king suffered would have softened any ordinary heart; but the murderer was a hard and callous wretch, and his brazen eyes outlooked the king.
1911, Henry Gilbert, chapter 11, in King Arthur’s Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls, Edinburgh & London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 299
(transitive, obsolete) To inspect throughly; to select.
Quotations
Away to the Brook, / All your Tackle out look, / Here’s a day that is worth a year’s wishing; / See that all things be right, / For ’tis a very spight / To want tools when a man goes a fishing.
1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76
outlook2
noun
plural not attested
(Hong Kong, colloquial) look; appearance
Quotations
How ignorant you are! Admiring the outlook of a same sex person has nothing to do with gay! Some of my male friends admire Andy Lau's and Leslie Cheung's looks quite a lot, but unfortunately, they are NOT gay, not BI, they are totally STRAIGHT!
1996 March 14, Bugs, soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment (Usenet)
If you accept the sound of Emsemble[sic] Reference. I am sure you will like Primaddona[sic] Gold. The Primaddona[sic] Gold is much better than the Reference in every aspect. The only draw back is probably the out-look, some people, including my mother, said it look like a coffin.
1998 December 19, [email protected], hk.rec.audio-visual (Usenet)
Walla-walla was at first nick-named by the European passengers as the engine of the vessel was very noisy. The outlook of the walla-walla (Class 1 motorboat) did not change much in the past decades. The wooden hull, the below-loadline cabin (ie without deck) and the engine in the front part of the cabin were characteristics of these boats.
2000 November 28, Choi Kim Lui, “The Development of Motorboat Services in Hong Kong”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)