overlook

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.

   “Normally a visitor does not participate in one activity to the exclusion of others. One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other facilities, such as picnicking, hiking, stopping at an overlook, and so forth.”

2. fiil To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.

   “Our hotel room overlooks the lake.”

3. fiil To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

   “These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.”

4. fiil To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

   “I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.”

5. fiil To look down upon from above or from a higher location.

   “The hill overlooks the valley.”

6. fiil To supervise, oversee; to watch over.

   “to overlook a gang of laborers”

7. fiil To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.

   “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, The artist turned sharply round, and now for the first time became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger.”

8. fiil To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

   “And therefore I trust thou vvylt accept it as it is, specially considering, that I neither had leysure, nor quietnesse at the dooing of it, neither after the dooing had euer any tyme to ouerlooke it, but vvas driuen to deliuer it to the Printer, as I fyrst vvrote it […]”

9. fiil To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

   “Portia: […]Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours,— Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours![…]”