scout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaʊt/
ipa: [skʌʊt]
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: Scout
Forms: form: scouts
Etymology: From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultō (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.
Senses: synonyms: word: espial
word: espy
glosses: A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
examples: text: while the rat is on the scout
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “The Cricket”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
text: May 6, 1883 […] This camp, the finest on this scout, has not so much running water as some of the others; […] May 7, 1883 […] Colonel Aguerre was going today or tomorrow with four hundred regular troops for a scout in the Sierra Madre […]
ref: 2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Struggle for Apacheria. volume one, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 356:
glosses: An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
glosses: A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
examples: text: We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.
ref: 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
glosses: A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
examples: text: He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.
ref: 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter I, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:
qualifier: Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University; Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University
glosses: A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielder in a game for practice.
qualifier: up until 1920s
glosses: A fighter aircraft.
examples: text: A scout topogram is initially performed during continuous table motion, generating an anatomic overview image similar to a conventional radiograph at the locked projection.
ref: 2012, Ella A. Kazerooni, Baskaran Sundaram, Imaging of Lung Cancer, page 937:
text: It consisted of injecting an iodinated contrast agent while a breast was compressed in one projection after a scout film, taking several sequential films, and subtracting them from the scout film.
ref: 2016, John L. Cameron, Andrew M. Cameron, Current Surgical Therapy, page 721:
text: Because of this FOV limitation, several institutions use a weight cutoff or a scout radiograph lateral diameter cutoff, though the exact cutoff threshold varies from institution to institution.
ref: 2018, Savvas Nicolaou, Mohammed F. Mohammed, Multi-Energy CT: The New Frontier in Imaging, page 643:
topics: medicine
radiography
radiology
sciences
glosses: A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
examples: text: "Listen, old scout," Mr. Osborn said solemnly, "you think New York is heartless, but that's not what it is."
ref: 1983, Robley Wilson, Dancing for Men, page 124:
glosses: A term of address for a man or boy.
Derived terms: boy scout
go on the scout
scout balloon
scout car
scoutess
Scout Green
scouthouse
scoutmaster
Scout Official for a Day
scout team
talent scout