prospect
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
entertainment
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
music
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English prospecte, from Latin prōspectus (“view, sight, prospect; panorama”), from prōspiciō (“to look forward”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns), from pro (“before, forward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look, to see”). By surface analysis, pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus and prospekt. The verb is from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: prospects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prospects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prospecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prospected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prospected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
pos: noun
examples: As when a Scout[…]Obtains the brow of ſome high-climbing Hill, / Which to his eye diſcovers unaware / The goodly proſpect of ſome forein land / Firſt-ſeen, or ſome renownd Metropolis / With gliſtering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, / Which now the Riſing Sun guilds with his beams.
gloss: A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight ...
The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
gloss: A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
pos: noun
examples: Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake.
gloss: Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
pos: noun
examples: Their prospect was toward the south.
gloss: The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
pos: noun
examples: a very ill prospect of a future state
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?
gloss: The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
pos: noun
examples: The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end.
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
Prospects for the construction of a Channel tunnel now appear to be brighter than they have been for some time.
And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
gloss: A hope; a hopeful.
pos: noun
examples: The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
gloss: Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
pos: noun
gloss: A potential client or customer.
pos: noun
gloss: The façade of an organ.
pos: noun
gloss: To search, as for gold.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.
gloss: To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
pos: verb
Derived words: Mount Prospect
nonprospect
prospectless
Prospect Vale
unqualified prospect
bioprospect
prospector
unprospected
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