look out

Verb

look out (third-person singular simple present looks out, present participle looking out, simple past and past participle looked out)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
   • While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
   • 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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   take care, watch out

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To find by looking: to hunt out.
   • 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^(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...
   • 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
3. To be facing.
   • A spacious room that looks out on the sea.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
   • 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