(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.
Picket
Definition:
(n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
(n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
(n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
(n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
(n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
(n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
(v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
(v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
(v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
(v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine out of 10 private sector workplaces have never seen a union rep, let alone a picket line; the number of days lost to strike action in recent years have been, barring a relatively small spike in 2011, at historic lows.
(2) Staff willing to return and cross a picket line would be allowed to extend their stay to spend time with their families.
(3) Sounds like the good – or rather bad – old days of the 1970s, when strikes and work-to-rule protests backed by picket lines went hand in hand with Daily Mail warnings of “the enemy within”.
(4) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(5) Thousands of junior doctors showed their support at more than 150 picket lines across England, demonstrating the strength of feeling amongst the profession.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kent and Canterbury junior doctors on the picket line.
(7) He has written, phoned, lobbied, picketed, pleaded, hassled, demonstrated and campaigned so that the case would not be abandoned and the people responsible for killing Daniel in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in March 1987 would never feel that they had got away with murder.
(8) When a fixation point moves under a row of identical targets at a speed of one target for each flash of a strobe, smooth apparent movement of the targets is seen (the "picket-fence illusion").
(9) Unite members mounted picket lines in the Heathrow area.
(10) Chris Tranchell cheerfully introduced himself as a flying picket, a one-man delegation from Hammersmith and Fulham trades council where he represents the actors' union, Equity.
(11) 11am: In Hull, striking presenters play a pre-recorded radio station "Strike FM" on the picket line, accomp-anied by a Dalek.
(12) IPCC will not investigate Orgreave police action during miners' strike Read more On that day in 1984, 8,000 miners who went to picket lorry drivers supplying coke to the steel industry were met by 6,000 police officers drawn from all over the country, commanded by South Yorkshire police.
(13) "The idea that the LA Times could be taken over by right-wing radical extremists just boggles the mind," said Glen Arnodo, staff director of the LA County Federation of Labor, as protestors prepared to picket.
(14) On Saturday it passed through Arizona, where it picketed the Phoenix offices of the Republican senator John McCain, whom it accuses of promoting “pro-invasion” legislation.
(15) • Propose that unlawful or intimidatory picketing should become a criminal as opposed to civil offence and new protections should be available for those workers unwilling to strike.
(16) Protesters also plan to picket that meeting, from which media have been excluded.
(17) Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers joined marches, rallies and picket lines across England and Wales on 10 July to protest against low pay and falling living standards.
(18) They met with the unions, they gave them flying pickets.
(19) The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
(20) Picket lines were lightly staffed, with six people outside White City, the home of BBC Television, at lunchtime, and three at Broadcasting House, where the radio stations transmit from.