overlook

suomi-englanti sanakirja

overlook englannista suomeksi

  1. olla huomaamatta

  2. näköalapaikka

  3. kohota yli

  4. valvoa

  5. katsella johonkin

  1. Substantiivi

  2. näköalapaikka

  3. Verbi

  4. katsoa läpi sormien, jättää huomaamatta">jättää huomaamatta

  5. valvoa

  6. katsoa ylhäältä

overlook englanniksi

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

  2. {{quote-text|en|year=1980|title=Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan

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

  4. (ux)

  5. (RQ:Defoe Robinson Crusoe) I took my Gun, and went on Shore, climbing up upon a Hill, which seem’d to over-look that Point, where I saw the full Extent of it, and resolv’d to venture.

  6. (quote-journal)

  7. {{quote-book|en|year=1950|author=Nevil Shute|title=A Town Like Alice|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|year_published=1952|chapter=6|page=188|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120110/html.php

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

  9. (syn)

  10. (quote-book)|title=A Divine Herball|location=London|publisher=John Budge|chapter=Hysope and Humilitie|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00993.0001.001

  11. {{quote-book|en|year=1739|author=David Hume|title=A Treatise of Human Nature|location=London|publisher=John Noon|section=Volume 2, Part 2, Section 2, p. 118|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806339.0001.002

  12. {{quote-text|en|year=1898|author=H. G. Wells|title=The War of the Worlds|section=Book 2, Chapter 7|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36-h/36-h.htm

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

  14. 1615, (w), ''Contemplations vpon the Principal Passages of the Holie Historie'', London: Nathanael Butter and William Butler, Volume 3, “''Ehud'' and ''Eglon'',” p.(nbs)48,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02527.0001.001

  15. Euery circumstance is full of improbabilities: Faith euermore ouerlookes the difficulties of the way, & bends her eyes onely to the certainty of the end.
  16. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

  17. (RQ:Austen Emma)

  18. (RQ:Grahame Wind in the Willows)

  19. To look down upon from above or from a higher location.

  20. (RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis)

  21. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)

  22. {{quote-text|en|year=1848|author=Elizabeth Gaskell|title=Mary Barton|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2153/2153-h/2153-h.htm|chapter=5

  23. (quote-text)|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8101/pg8101-images.html|chapter=10

  24. To supervise, oversee; to over.

  25. (RQ:Lodge Rosalynde) like a prettie Page waited on his Miſtreſſe (smallcaps), and ouerlookt that al was in a readineſſe againſt the Bridegroome ſhoulde come.

  26. (RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)

  27. {{quote-book|en|year=1677|author=Hannah Woolley|title=The Compleat Servant-Maid|location=London|publisher=T. Passinger|page=63|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001

  28. (quote-book)|title=The Life of (w), Bishop of Worcester|location=London|publisher=John & James Rivington|section=Section 4, p. 59|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004864172.0001.000

  29. To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.

  30. (quote-text)|title=The Art of Drawing with the Pen|location=London|publisher=William Jones|section=Book 1, Chapter 7, p. 20|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09192.0001.001

  31. 1724, (w), ''The Plain Dealer'', No. 33, 13(nbs)July, 1724, ''The Plain Dealer'', London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p.(nbs)269,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004891141.0001.001

  32. 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—''
  33. 1839, (w), “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” in ''The Watcher and Other Weird Stories'', London: Downey, 1894, p.(nbs)133,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40510/40510-h/40510-h.htm

  34. The artist turned sharply round, and now for the first time became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger.
  35. To inspect (something); to examine; to over carefully or repeatedly.

  36. (quote-text)|location=London|section=The Epistle to the Reader|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03069.0001.001

  37. (quote-book)|volume=3|chapter=Richard the third|page=757|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68202.0001.001

  38. 1602, (w) (translator), ''The Famous and Memorable Workes of (w)'', London: G. Bishop ''et al.'', Book 5, Chapter 2, p.(nbs)109,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04680.0001.001

  39. (..) this was one of those spies which ''Moses'' sent to ouerlooke the land of Chanaan.
  40. 1752, (w), ''The Gray’s Inn Journal'' No. 21, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p.(nbs)138,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873546.0001.001

  41. 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 (..)
  42. To look upon with an eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

  43. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice):(..)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!(..)