What's the difference between lookout and watchman?

Lookout


Definition:

  • (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.

Watchman


Definition:

  • (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
  • (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saad al-Dawla, the night watchman of the al-Mathaf hotel, said he was sleeping when the commandos came to the beach.
  • (2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
  • (3) When Trayvon Martin was shot to death by an overzealous neighborhood watchman in 2012, no one knew much about the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) and the kinds of laws they secretly push – including the now-infamous “stand-your-ground” laws that allow Americans to shoot first and ask questions later.
  • (4) How the infection was transmitted to the first victim in the city, a watchman's wife who lived on the outskirts, is more difficult to explain.
  • (5) This paper describes the case of a pregnant 17-19 year old unmarried girl from Kenya who has a primary level education, no definite religion, is unemployed and living with her father, a watchman.
  • (6) Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, "night-watchman state".
  • (7) Ferguson mired in sweeping racial discrimination, federal report finds Read more The same high bar was in place for a two-year investigation into the 2012 killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watchman.
  • (8) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
  • (9) As always, this isn't a straightforward equation – a panopticon effect in which we are monitored by a faceless watchman and receive nothing in return.
  • (10) At the morgue entrance a watchman, Wilzor, huddled by a radio listening to upbeat Compas music.
  • (11) Instead the short volume, entitled Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and published on Monday, is intended to be what the Wikileaks founder calls "a watchman's shout in the night", warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from "the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen" – the web.
  • (12) The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive Read more Clinton invoked several high-profile cases, including that of Trayvon Martin , the Florida teenager who was shot to death in his own neighborhood in 2012 by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, and Sandra Bland, who was found hanged to death in a Texas county jail cell , three days after a routine traffic stop escalated into physical confrontation.
  • (13) Instead, Britain’s main opposition party resembles a dilapidated warehouse storing heaps of votes behind rusted gates, guarded by a drowsy night watchman.
  • (14) "I was just sitting in my chair when suddenly I heard a huge bang," said a watchman of a nearby hospital who did not want to give his name.
  • (15) Martin was killed by a neighborhood watchman who viewed his presence as “suspicious”.
  • (16) Ah, then there's Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, now The Night Watchman , singing for striking teachers and assailed unions – playing both his own subversions and acquainting young America with the great radical folk canon.
  • (17) The watchman's wife need not have been the first one to catch the infection.
  • (18) The night watchman-like Rhodes in Oxford, by contrast, occupies a crevasse in an Oriel building overlooking High Street, unobtrusively, and insidiously, guarding an always-shut door below him.
  • (19) In a particularly absurd episode, he is chased by a squad car after his random shooting of a busker, commandeers a cab (killing its driver), crashes into a Korean deli, kills a cop who tries to disarm him, escapes from the armed police who seem to have him surrounded, shoots dead a janitor and a night watchman in a nearby building, and (as a Swat team arrives in a helicopter, just too late) sits in his office confessing his crimes ("thirty, forty, a hundred murders") to his lawyer's answering machine.
  • (20) To escape the nuptials, in 1941 he ran away to Johannesburg, where he landed a job as a night watchman guarding the compound entrance of a goldmine.

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