out of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊt əv/
ipa: /ˈaʊtə/
ipa: /ˈaʊɾə/
rhymes: -aʊtə
Forms: form: outta
Etymology: From Middle English oute of, from Old English ūt of.
Senses: examples: text: The audience came out of the theater.
text: The cat jumped out of the basket.
glosses: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
From the inside to the outside of.
examples: text: I have fallen out of love with you.
text: They will soon be out of business.
text: This train will be going out of service at the next station.
glosses: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
So as no longer to be in a given condition or state.
examples: text: He ate out of a big bowl.
text: Turns out he's some rapper out of New York called Buster Bigmouth.
text: Mike Morgillo, a cop out of the Bronx borough command — who is married to a detective — says he's sick of sitting around other cops' backyards hearing the same old he-shot, she-shot stories.
ref: 1997, New York, volume 30, number 31, page 33:
glosses: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
From a thing or place as a source, place of origin etc.
examples: text: There's the Titanic out of Liverpool.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
Stating the port in which a boat has been registered.
examples: text: Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease.
text: Out of the entire class, only Cynthia completed the work.
text: Users rated this product a 9 out of 10.
text: Only one out of three new students come(s) back.
text: Out of all men beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen.
ref: 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:
glosses: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
Taken from among; expressing a fraction of (a larger number);
synonyms: in
examples: text: She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
glosses: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
Born from a given mother (cf. by).
qualifier: now chiefly horse breeding
examples: text: His feet rested out of the water.
text: Is your mother out of hospital?
glosses: Expressing position outside, literal or figurative; opposed to in.
Not within a given space, area etc.
examples: text: I'm rather out of practice right now.
text: He cannot see you because he's feeling out of spirits today.
glosses: Expressing position outside, literal or figurative; opposed to in.
Not in (a given state, condition).
examples: text: Sorry, we're out of bread.
text: Once out of the farm the approach of poverty would be sure.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Barnes & Noble, published 2005, page 276:
glosses: Expressing position outside, literal or figurative; opposed to in.
Without; no longer in possession of.
examples: text: I laughed out of embarrassment.
text: She only did it out of love for him.
text: She asked the question out of mere curiosity.
glosses: From a given cause or motivation.
examples: text: It's made out of mahogany.
glosses: From a given material as means of construction.
examples: text: They're out of Tampa and they cover the Southeast.
text: He works out of the main office.
text: This company, based out of England has a full line of magickal products but I can really on^([sic]) comment on their charcoal incense.
ref: 2007, Raven Womack, The Raven's Flight Book of Incense, Oils, Potions and Brews, page 107:
text: The first major radio networks were based out of New York, and these chains of radio stations would broadcast the same programs that would originate from New York to its subsidiary stations across the nation.
ref: 2015, Alan C. Turley, Urban Culture: Exploring Cities and Cultures, page 81:
glosses: In a manner based in but not always in (a certain place); (loosely) in.
examples: text: Five months out of the election
text: Several yards out of the ocean
glosses: expression of how distant a person, an event or object is.
Synonyms: sense: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.; So as no longer to be in a given condition or state.
word: exterior to
word: external to (2, 3)
word: outside of (2, 3)
sense: Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.; From a thing or place as a source, place of origin etc.
word: without
sense: expressing a fraction or a ratio
word: from
sense: expressing a fraction or a ratio
word: of
sense: expressing a fraction or a ratio
word: for
Derived terms: sense: having come out of
word: out of nowhere
sense: not part of
word: out of reach
word: out of place