out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊt/
ipa: /ɒʔ/
ipa: /uːt/
ipa: /ɘʉt/
ipa: /aʊt/
ipa: /ʌʊt/
ipa: [əut]
ipa: [ɛʊt]
note: Nova Scotia
ipa: [ɵut]
ipa: /æɔt/
ipa: /æʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: outs
form: oute
Etymology: From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots oot (“out”), Yola out, outh, udh, ut, uth (“out”), North Frisian üt, ütj (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut (“out of”), West Frisian út (“out”), Cimbrian aus, auz (“out, outwards”), Dutch uit (“out”), German, Luxembourgish aus (“out”), Yiddish אויס (oys, “over, finished”), Danish ud (“out; outside”), Icelandic út (“out”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ut (“out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ut, “out of”).
Senses: examples: text: They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
glosses: A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
examples: text: The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.
ref: 2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
examples: text: As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand.
ref: 2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57:
text: If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
ref: 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A card which can make a hand a winner.
examples: text: Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A trip out; an outing.
examples: text: This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]
ref: 1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192:
antonyms: in
glosses: One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
glosses: A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
examples: text: It's an interesting film. I've always felt that he made it out of our outs [outtakes]: which was like he was trying to prove something.
ref: 2015, Keith Beattie, Trent Griffiths, D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An outtake.
examples: text: […] one gentleman called to the waiter, 'Bring me a quartern of gin and two outs (glasses), for me and this chap to drink Mullens' health.'
ref: 1873, Godfrey Holden Pike, Byeways of two cities, page 226:
glosses: A dram glass.