Word Meanings - LOOKOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.

Related words: (words related to LOOKOUT)

• LOOKDOWN
  See
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• WATCHWORD
  1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• IRRESPONSIBILITY
  Want of, or freedom from, responsibility or accountability.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.