out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
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: 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: The magician tapped the hat, and a rabbit jumped out.
text: There was a hole in the bucket, and all the water leaked out.
glosses: Away from the inside or centre.
examples: text: Once they had landed, the commandos quickly spread out along the beach.
text: For six hours the tide flows out, then for six hours it flows in.
text: He lives out in Australia.
text: It's three miles out to the island.
text: The Joneses don't live here any more. They moved out three months ago.
glosses: Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
examples: text: Let’s eat out tonight
glosses: Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
Specifically, away from home or one's usual place.
examples: text: hit out, lash out, speak out, shout out, yell out
glosses: Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
Away from the doer, especially vigorously.
examples: text: Five years out from the passing of the law, nothing had actually changed.
raw_tags: a long way in the future
text: The election is a long way out.
text: Work may shift out as much as two weeks
glosses: Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually after, the present or a stated event) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from")
examples: text: Last night we slept out under the stars.
text: It's cold out.
glosses: Outside; not indoors.
examples: text: The football caught the edge of the line but then bounced out.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
examples: text: Turn the lights out.
text: Put the fire out.
text: I painted out that nasty mark on the wall.
glosses: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
examples: text: I haven’t finished. Hear me out.
text: Sorry love, we've got no bananas. We've sold out.
text: Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 4:23:
text: I'm all cried out / You took a whole lot of loving for a handful of nothing
ref: 1984, "All cried out", song by English singer-songwriter Alison Moyet
glosses: To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
examples: text: After hours at the party, she was all danced out.
glosses: To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
Shows that an activity has been completed to the point of exhaustion.
examples: text: The place was all decked out for the holidays.
glosses: Used to intensify or emphasize.
examples: text: The singer is bringing out a new album next month.
text: The sun has brought the flowers out.
glosses: Into a state of existence or visibility.
examples: text: The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
glosses: Into a state of existence or visibility.
So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
qualifier: moon; stars; moon; stars
raw_tags: of the sun
examples: text: Wilson was bowled out for five runs.
text: First ball hit me on the 'and, second 'ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, the fourth bowled me out.
ref: 1876, The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32]., page 66:
text: Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted.
ref: 1984, Official Baseball Guide, page 211:
text: So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands.
ref: 2007, Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27:
text: The striking batter is bowled out when the wicket is broken with the bowler's delivery. A batter is bowled out whether or not the ball is touched or deflected into the stumps by the batter.
ref: 2010, Mark Butcher, Paul Abraham, Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself, page A-65:
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: So as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
raw_tags: of a player
Synonyms: sense: not at home
word: away
Derived terms: act out
all out
bottle out
bowl out
bug out
camp out
chicken out
chill out
churn out
coffeed out
come out
come out of the closet
coming out of one's ears
crank out
down and out
eat one's heart out
figure out
flesh out
foul out
freak out
freeze out
here on out
geek out
get out
go all out
go in one ear and out the other
hang out
hold out
inside out
iron out
key out
kick out
kit out
knock out
lock out
make out
move out
ne'er cast a clout till May be out
one eighty out
opt out
out of
out of action
out of control
out of fashion
out of it
out of joint
out of luck
out of one's mind
out of order
out of place
out of pocket
out of practice
out-of-print
out of proportion
out of sorts
out of stock
out of the blue
out of the ordinary
out of the question
out of the way
out of the woods
out of tune
out of wedlock
out of work
outro
out there
out to
out to get someone
out to lunch
out upon
peter out
pig out
put out
put out feelers
rideout
rub out
single out
suss out
thought-out
turn out
wash out
way out
weed out
wipe out
yell out
zonk out
zoom out
Related terms: There are numerous individual phrasal verbs
go out
pull out
put out
take out
and so on