What is the meaning of Scout?

A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.

An act of scouting or reconnoitering.

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.

A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.

A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.

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.

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.

A fielder in a game for practice.

A fighter aircraft.

A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.

Term of address for a man or boy.

To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.

To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

To reject with contempt.

To scoff.

A swift sailing boat.

To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.

The guillemot.

scout”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

scout”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

1879, Specimens of English Dialects: God drawned the praud children of Adam; the rainbow is a witness; Raven-scout and Beetham-fell to this day shew us the marks of the flead. [] I dont know the derivation of this word, which is a common name for a great precipice. Our waterfall in the river is called sometimes the force, sometimes the scout. The steep ridges of rocks on Beetham-fell, are called scouts, the fell beneath them Underlaade, that is Underload. Raven-scout is the highest-point of a ridge of rocks in Holme-park, adjoining to Farleston-knot, frequented by ravens, and sometimes visited by eagles." The English Dialect Dictionary, saying already a century ago that the word was obsolete or obsolescent, defines it as a "a high rock" instead, and suggests a relation to Old Norse skúti (cave formed by jutting rocks). The OED speculates that scout might mean "high overhanging rock". Compare the Kinder Scout.

a scout, a boy scout or girl scout

a talent scout

scout, boy scout

scout (a member of the international scout movement)

scout

scout; a member of the international scout movement.

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