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outlook
English
Etymology
From out- +? look.
Pronunciation
- Noun:
- IPA(key): /?a?t?l?k/
- Verb:
- IPA(key): /?a?t?l?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
outlook (plural outlooks)
- A place from which something can be viewed.
- Synonyms: vantage point, overlook
- 1667, Edward Waterhouse, A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London, London: Richard Thrale et al., p. 97,[1]
- This fetched tears from the innocent eyes, those Casements and out-looks of the tender heart of our Lord Jesus, who beholding the City Ierusalem wept over it,
- The view from such a place.
- An attitude or point of view.
- Synonyms: attitude, opinion, perspective, point of view, vantage point, viewpoint
- Expectation for the future.
- Synonyms: expectation, prognosis, prospect
Translations
Verb
outlook (third-person singular simple present outlooks, present participle outlooking, simple past and past participle outlooked)
- (intransitive, archaic, literary) To face or look in an outward direction.
- Synonym: look out
- 1610, Gervase Markham, Markhams Maister-peece, or, What Doth a Horse-man Lack? London, Chapter 103 “Certaine speciall Notes to be obserued in buying of a horse,” pp. 204-205,[2]
- [...] marke his colour and his shape, that is to say, a comely well proportioned head, with an outlooking eye, good well raised shoulders, and a thicke large breast [...]
- 1622, Samuel Purchas, The Kings Towre and Triumphant Arch of London, London, 1623, pp. 32-33,[3]
- A Towre [...] is, or ought to be [...] mounted with bulwarks, towred with turrets, battailed for out-looking artillerie, enclosed with ditches [...]
- 1895, Henry van Dyke, “Alpenrosen and Goat’s Milk” in Little Rivers, New York: Scribner, p. 150,[4]
- [...] would we look at the rooms? Outlooking on the piazza, with a balcony from which we could observe the Festa of to-morrow.
- (transitive, archaic) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
- Synonyms: outstare, face down, browbeat, overcome
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 2,[5]
- [...] I drew this gallant head of war,
- And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world,
- To outlook conquest and to win renown
- Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
- c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 11, p. 145,[6]
- There made they stand; there euerie eye, fixt on each other, stroue
- Who should outlooke his mate amaz’d:
- 1645, Henry Hammond, XXXI Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, London: Richard Royston, 1684, Sermon 8, p. 519,[7]
- [...] the news of the judgment to come, in the Preachers mouth, will be under an heavy suspicion of fraud and cheat, and in fine, pass but for fictions [...] too weak to outlook a brave glittering temptation:
- 1838, Thomas Miller, Royston Gower, London: W. Nicholson, Chapter 37, p. 329,[8]
- Once or twice he attempted to outlook the Saxon prisoner, but Hereward shrank not beneath his glance [...]
- 1911, Henry Gilbert, King Arthur’s Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls, Edinburgh & London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Chapter 11, p. 299,[9]
- The pain which the king suffered would have softened any ordinary heart; but the murderer was a hard and callous wretch, and his brazen eyes outlooked the king.
- (transitive, obsolete) To be more attractive than (someone or something).
- 1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64,[10]
- Nobody’s equipage outlooked ours except my Lord Lieutenant’s, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton outshines her neighbours [...]
- 1793, Hester Piozzi, letter dated 22 May, 1793, in Oswald G. Knapp (ed.), The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821, London: The Bodley Head, 1914, p. 89,[11]
- [...] Sally quite outlooked her sister by the bye, and was very finely drest.
- 1862, B. F. Taylor, diary entry dated 5 November, 1862, in E. R. Hutchins (ed.), The War of the Sixties, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912, p. 36,[12]
- Burnside, handsome, stately, outlooked his chief on horseback as on foot.
- 1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64,[10]
- (transitive, obsolete) To inspect throughly; to select.
- 1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76,[13]
- Away to the Brook,
- All your Tackle out look,
- Here’s a day that is worth a year’s wishing;
- See that all things be right,
- For ’tis a very spight
- To want tools when a man goes a fishing.
- 1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76,[13]
- (transitive, obsolete) To look beyond (something).
- 1680, John Yalden, Compendium Politicum, or, The Distempers of Government, London: Robert Clavel, p. 54,[14]
- [...] to fit minds to so even a temper, that both should round the same circle, and never out-look the Horizon of their reciprocal Interest, is a work altogether impossible.
- 1680, John Yalden, Compendium Politicum, or, The Distempers of Government, London: Robert Clavel, p. 54,[14]
Derived terms
- outlooker
Anagrams
- Lookout, look out, look-out, lookout
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conjecture
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin coniect?ra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of c?nici? (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaci? (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?d???k.t???(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?n?d???k.t???/
Noun
conjecture (countable and uncountable, plural conjectures)
- (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
- I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
- (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
- The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
- (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
Synonyms
- halseny
- See also Thesaurus:supposition
Related terms
- conject
- conjectural
Translations
Verb
conjecture (third-person singular simple present conjectures, present participle conjecturing, simple past and past participle conjectured)
- (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
- I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
- (transitive) To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
- February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)
- Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
- February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)
Translations
Further reading
- conjecture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “conjecture”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- conjecture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coniect?ra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.??k.ty?/
Noun
conjecture f (plural conjectures)
- conjecture
Usage notes
Not to be confused with conjoncture.
Verb
conjecture
- first-person singular present indicative of conjecturer
- third-person singular present indicative of conjecturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of conjecturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of conjecturer
- second-person singular imperative of conjecturer
Further reading
- “conjecture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
conject?re
- vocative masculine singular of conject?rus
Portuguese
Verb
conjecture
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of conjecturar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of conjecturar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of conjecturar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of conjecturar
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