overlook

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English overloken; equivalent to over- +‎ look. === Pronunciation === Noun: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.vəˌlʊk/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ.vɚˌlʊk/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈo.vəɹ.lʉk/ Verb: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌəʊ.vəˈlʊk/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌoʊ.vɚˈlʊk/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /o.vəɹˈlʉk/ Rhymes: -ʊk === Noun === overlook (plural overlooks) A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === overlook (third-person singular simple present overlooks, present participle overlooking, simple past and past participle overlooked) To offer a view (of something) from a higher position. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it. Synonyms: misheed; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment. Synonyms: take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore 1615, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principal Passages of the Holie Historie, London: Nathanael Butter and William Butler, Volume 3, “Ehud and Eglon,” p. 48,[5] Euery circumstance is full of improbabilities: Faith euermore ouerlookes the difficulties of the way, & bends her eyes onely to the certainty of the end. To look down upon from above or from a higher location. Synonyms: survey, look over, luster, lustrate (archaic) To supervise, oversee; to watch over. (archaic) To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly. 1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 33, 13 July, 1724, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 269,[12] I lean’d back in my Chair, and overlook’d what he was doing.—But, as if the young Rogue had had Eyes in his Elbows, he broke off what he had begun, and writ, thus, in a new Place.—If an impertinent Old Fellow, that sits by me, did not overlook what I am writing, I should have told you a pleasant Secret— 1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” in The Watcher and Other Weird Stories, London: Downey, 1894, p. 133,[13] The artist turned sharply round, and now for the first time became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger. (archaic) To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly. Synonyms: scrutinize; see also Thesaurus:examine 1602, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Famous and Memorable Workes of Iosephus, London: G. Bishop et al., Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 109,[16] […] this was one of those spies which Moses sent to ouerlooke the land of Chanaan. 1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal No. 21, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 138,[17] As the Meanness of my Education had hindered me from knowing any Thing of Law Affairs, I got my two Companions to overlook the Mortgage Deed, and with their Advice signed it […] (archaic) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “overlook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “overlook”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === look over, lookover