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OVERLOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overlook mean?
• OVERLOOK (noun)
The noun OVERLOOK has 1 sense:
1. a high place affording a good view
Familiarity information: OVERLOOK used as a noun is very rare.
• OVERLOOK (verb)
The verb OVERLOOK has 5 senses:
2. be oriented in a certain direction
Familiarity information: OVERLOOK used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A high place affording a good view
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("overlook" is a kind of...):
place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)
Derivation:
overlook (look down on)
overlook (be oriented in a certain direction)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: overlooked
Past participle: overlooked
-ing form: overlooking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look past, fail to notice
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "overlook" is one way to...):
lose; miss (fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be oriented in a certain direction
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
look across; look out on; look out over; overlook
Context example:
The apartment overlooks the Hudson
Hypernyms (to "overlook" is one way to...):
lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
overlook (a high place affording a good view)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Leave undone or leave out
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit
Context example:
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overlook"):
forget (forget to do something)
jump; pass over; skip; skip over (bypass)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Sense 4
Meaning:
Look down on
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
command; dominate; overlook; overtop
Context example:
The villa dominates the town
Hypernyms (to "overlook" is one way to...):
lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overlook"):
dwarf; overshadow; shadow (make appear small by comparison)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
overlook (a high place affording a good view)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Watch over
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
I am overlooking her work
Hypernyms (to "overlook" is one way to...):
survey (look over carefully or inspect)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
It was in the chamber of the rifle and he had overlooked it.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“Never mind,” said Holmes, laughing; “it is my business to know things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was sitting on a seat at one end of a kind of terrace, overlooking the great city.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With real affection, Fanny, like mine, more might be overlooked.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth had turned from him, Lady Russell overlooked him; her nerves were strengthened by these circumstances; she felt that she owed him attention.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Ah! then you must have overlooked it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To think that I should have overlooked you!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Our friend will overlook the matter if you do but say that you have acted in heat and haste.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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