Sekirov Dictionary

prospect

UK /ˈpɹɒspɛkt/US /ˈpɹɑspɛkt/

noun 10
/ˈpɹɑspɛkt/ verb 4
forms 3

noun10

The region which the eye overlooks at one time; a view; a scene; an outlook.
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The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end. — 1788
A hope; a hopeful.
Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
A potential client or customer.
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The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life? — 1663
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A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- I went to Putney, and other places on the Thames, to take prospects in crayon, to carry into France, where I thought to have them engraved. — 1649
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A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- Him God beholding from his prospect high, / Wherein past, present, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forseeing spake. — 1667
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A relative position of the front of a building or other structure; a face; a relative aspect.
- Their prospect was toward the south. — 1611
The façade of an organ.

prospect

UK /pɹəˈspɛkt/US /ˈpɹɑspɛkt/

verb4

To search, as for gold.
To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
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(no longer used) To have or afford a view; to face or look out.
- This poynte semethe as though it woolde inuade the monte Atlas in Aphrica. Foꝛ it pꝛospectethe [translating spectat] towarde that parte of Aphꝛike, whiche the poꝛtugales caule Caput Bonae Sperantiae. — 1555
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(no longer used) To look or face towards; to view.
- […] [Andreas] Vesalius no lesse taketh part agaynst him, openyng the window of light, on the clearer side, pꝛospecting the Sunne, as manifestly appeareth by that is gone befoꝛe. — 1578

forms

prospected · prospecting · prospects

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