English Dictionary

scout

/skaʊt/

noun

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.

The scout was sent ahead to gather information about the enemy's position.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

An act of scouting or reconnoitering.

while the rat is on the scout

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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

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.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(Oxford University, modern) 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.

意味（7）

(Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) 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.

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.

意味（8）

(UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.

意味（9）

(historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.

意味（10）

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

A scout topogram is initially performed during continuous table motion, generating an anatomic overview image similar to a conventional radiograph at the locked projection.

意味（11）

(informal) Term of address for a man or boy.

Listen, old scout, Mr. Osborn said solemnly, you think New York is heartless, but that's not what it is.