looking 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.

   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...
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