Overlook
[əʊvə'lʊk] or [,ovɚ'lʊk]
Definition
(noun.) a high place affording a good view.
(verb.) watch over; 'I am overlooking her work'.
(verb.) look past, fail to notice.
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
(v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
(v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
(v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
(v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.
Typist: Martha
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Superintend, supervise, oversee, inspect, have charge of.[2]. Excuse, forgive, pardon, pass over, forgive and forget.[3]. Disregard, neglect, miss, BLINK, pass by, be inattentive to, not notice, not think of.
Typed by Leona
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Condone, connive, disregard, oversee, supervise, inspect, survey, review,excuse, pardon, forgive, neglect
ANT:Visit, scrutinize, investigate, mark
Typist: Maxine
Definition
v.t. to look over: to see from a higher position: to view carefully: to neglect by carelessness or inadvertence: to pass by without punishment: to pardon: to slight: to bewitch by looking upon with the Evil Eye.—n. Overlook′er.
Typed by Jed
Examples
- For his observation was constantly confirming Mr. Farebrother's assurance that the banker would not overlook opposition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. Plato. The Republic.
- You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in consideration of your feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Perhaps I might have scolded, said Edmund, if either of you had been sitting down alone; but while you do wrong together, I can overlook a great deal. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I hope he will overlook it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Likewise, it seems to me that, concentrating our attention on the examination, we altogether overlook one of the best points of the animal. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The daily appearance of a brougham and pair could hardly have been overlooked in such Sleepy Hollows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Aside from the development of the motion picture as a spectacle, there has gone on an evolution in its use for educational purposes of wide range, which must not be overlooked. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She had overlooked the fact that, in coming as a boy among other boys, she would be treated as a boy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Kind Mrs. Vesey, whom we have all too much overlooked and forgotten of late, innocently caused us a sad morning to begin with. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When this social aim is overlooked, however, the study of primitive life becomes simply a rehearsing of sensational and exciting features of savagery. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No letter that can possibly have been overlooked? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The enemy was found strongly intrenched on the high ground overlooking the river, and commanding the Wooden Bridge with artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The friends had walked to the broad window overlooking the boulevard as they talked. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Birney was now moved to the high ground overlooking the river crossings built by our troops, and covered the crossings. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She was sitting on a seat at one end of a kind of terrace, overlooking the great city. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the 8th Meade was directed to fortify a line down the bank overlooking the Chickahominy, under cover of which the army could move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bragg followed and took possession of Missionary Ridge, overlooking Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To take care, in doing this, that one end of the stick shall be at the edge of the rocks, on the side of them which overlooks the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But it overlooks the fact that fear need not be an undesirable factor in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After that I determined to lie in wait, so I got out my revolver and I sat up in my study, which overlooks the lawn and garden. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Nellie