different between prospect vs outsight

English

Etymology

From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +? -spect

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??sp?kt/
  • (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?p??sp?kt/
• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?-sp?kt?, IPA^(key): /p???sp?kt/
  • (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?p??sp?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: pros?pect

Noun

prospect (plural prospects)

1. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
2. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
3. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
4. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

   • Their prospect was toward the south.

5. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.

   • a very ill prospect of a future state

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     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?

6. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
7. A hope; a hopeful.
8. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
9. (sales) A potential client or customer.
10. (music) The façade of an organ.

Translations

Verb

prospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected)

1. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
2. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

Translations

Anagrams

• croppest

Romanian

Etymology

From German Prospekt

Noun

prospect n (plural prospecte)

1. brochure

Declension

English

Etymology

From out- +? sight. Cognate with Dutch uitzicht (“view, prospect, outlook”), German Aussicht (“view, prospect, chance, outlook, perspective”), Swedish utsikt (“view, outlook, prospect”).

Noun

outsight (countable and uncountable, plural outsights)

1. Sight for that which is on the outside; the ability or capacity to perceive or anticipate external things; view; outlook; perspective; power of observation.
   • 1897, Ursula Newell Gestefeld, How we master our Fate:

     When we live by outsight, we become submissive to fate.

   • 1968, Richard Matthew Jones, Fantasy and feeling in education:

     It can key her into broad areas of emotional import, and therefore of personal significance, which if made relevant to the subject matter would provide some children with opportunities for linking insights to outsights, [...]

   • 2007, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, The leadership challenge:

     This means honing their “outsight” —the capacity to perceive external things—and helping their constituents develop that ability as well.

2. Expectation; prospect.
   • 2009, E. Milton Scott, Hinges of Time:

     Yet we sail toward it grasping The outsight which we know is there.

3. (Scotland) Movable goods kept out of doors, such as animals, ploughs, carts, and other implements of husbandry.

Synonyms

• observation

Related terms

• insight