(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
(n.) The place from which such observation is made.
(n.) A person engaged in watching.
(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(2) The local sheriff, FBI and other law enforcement officials have so far held back from confronting the militia, who are heavily armed and have lookouts on a watchtower.
(3) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
(4) 10.01pm BST North Avenue Beach From a 95th floor lookout over Chicago's sprawling downtown … to the beach, in under 10 minutes.
(5) It’s windy but the rain has stopped so we decide to brave Intermediate Hill, where a new lookout has been built with 360-degree views of the island.
(6) Photograph: Guardian The lookout from the summit, taking in the Jaws of Borrowdale and still waters of Derwent Isle, was immortalised in the classic book Swallows and Amazons.
(7) A study conducted in the Sioux Lookout Health Zone in northwestern Ontario, Canada analyzed the diagnoses and managements for 139,618 patient visits to three levels of practitioners: physicians, nurse practitioners, and minimally trained health aides.
(8) Pharmacists should be on the lookout for complaints of any side effects experienced by a patient and should recommend that a patient contact her physician to discuss the untoward reactions.
(9) As "Darien", it was the lookout for Ransome's boat‑loving kids.
(10) Here was the perfect sea story for which Poe had been on the lookout.
(11) Meanwhile, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, Clayton Kershaw is closer to returning from his first career stint on the disabled list after throwing five innings during a rehab outing for the Dodgers Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts.
(12) In addition, we are all to get used to wearing life jackets, lookouts are to be posted and we will be told where to assemble if foreign soldiers come aboard.
(13) Cleese is currently on the lookout for a director to helm the stage production, which could still be some way from treading the boards.
(14) The proposed protected areas include 196 sq km (122 sq miles) of deepwater coral reef off Cape Lookout, a 83 sq km (52 square mile) area off Cape Fear and more than 37,000 sq km in an elbow-shaped area extending from South Carolina to southern Florida.
(15) We are simply reacting to steps taken by Russia.” The EU's boxers are on the lookout for fighting talk from Theresa May Read more Earlier in the week EU foreign ministers said Russia could be guilty of possible war crimes in Aleppo and agreed to widen sanctions against Syrians implicated in the bombing.
(16) Most white people were on the lookout, we were told, for what they called these basic racial traits.
(17) In order to demonstrate a relationship between visually related learning disabilities and juvenile deliquency, a study was conducted on institutionalized youth at Lookout Mountain School, an educational facility for committed delinquents.
(18) Keying in a password or code 40-plus times a day might seem like a hassle but, says Lookout's Derek Halliday, "It's your first line of defence."
(19) "[They] were constantly on the lookout for an excuse to launch an operation in Lebanon ," he wrote in his 2000 book, The Iron Wall.
(20) Jack Kerouac spent the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout atop Desolation Peak in the North Cascades, surrounded by silence and rocky spires, far from the drink, drugs and distractions of his San Francisco life.
Observatory
Definition:
(n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.
(n.) A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena.
(n.) A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.
(n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Syrian government also hit rebel-held areas with air strikes on Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
(2) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(3) Another 57 fighters with the al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaida, were killed in air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and Idlib, the Observatory said.
(4) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria’s civil war, claimed that US air strikes also hit a headquarters for a Nusra-aligned militant group, Ahrar al-Sham.
(5) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
(6) On Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed militants had seized part of a northern district of the town, after a day of heavy clashes.
(7) Willie Soon is a Smithsonian staff researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” a Harvard spokesman, Jeff Neal, said.
(8) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(9) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(10) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(11) Scott Greer is associate professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan , research associate of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and senior visiting fellow of LSE Health This article is published by Guardian Professional.
(12) Hundreds of civilians have left,” said the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman.
(13) It also ignores evidence from Oxford's Migration Observatory , which tracks the employment status of migrants.
(14) Perched some 11,000ft up a volcano, the Mauna Loa observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.
(15) 11.22am BST The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that western Ghouta was also targeted by regime forces today.
(16) What we showed is that even under natural conditions, it can become much drier than predicted by any of our models,” said Yael Kiro , a geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the US.
(17) Syrian ceasefire deal - the Guardian briefing Read more On Tuesday the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the conflict, updated its tally of fatalities.
(18) Six children were among the dead, while dozens were wounded, the Observatory added.
(19) Working in a location to the southeast of Kathmandu, Paul Tapponnier, an earth scientist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore , and his team dug trenches across the fault and used charcoal to date when it had moved.
(20) The group’s members and their families have begun leaving the city and relocating to Mosul, Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.