out
Part of speech: adv
prep
noun
verb
adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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television
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-West Germanic *ūt
Old English ūt
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Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *-ai
Proto-Germanic *ūtai
Proto-West Germanic *ūtē
Old English ūte
Middle English oute
English out
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 and 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: oot
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: oute
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oot
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: oute
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: oute
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: outs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: oot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: oute
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: oute
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oot
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: oute
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Away from the inside or centre.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The magician tapped the hat, and a rabbit jumped out.
There was a hole in the bucket, and all the water leaked out.
gloss: Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Once they had landed, the commandos quickly spread out along the beach.
For six hours the tide flows out, then for six hours it flows in.
He lives out in Australia.
It's three miles out to the island.
The Joneses don't live here any more. They moved out three months ago.
gloss: Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Let’s eat out tonight
gloss: Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: hit out, lash out, speak out, shout out, yell out
gloss: Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually before, a stated event, or into the future) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from" or "to")
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Five weeks out from the passage of the law, something has to change.
The election is a long way out.
Work may shift out as much as two weeks.
gloss: Outside; not indoors.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Last night we slept out under the stars.
It's cold out.
gloss: Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The football caught the edge of the line but then bounced out.
gloss: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Turn the lights out.
Put the fire out.
I painted out that nasty mark on the wall.
gloss: To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I haven’t finished. Hear me out.
Sorry love, we've got no bananas. We've sold out.
write out
Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
I'm all cried out / You took a whole lot of loving for a handful of nothing
gloss: To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: After hours at the party, she was all danced out.
gloss: Used to intensify or emphasize.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The place was all decked out for the holidays.
gloss: Into a state of existence or visibility.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The singer is bringing out a new album next month.
The sun has brought the flowers out.
gloss: Into a state of existence or visibility.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
gloss: So as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket or a forced out in baseball).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wilson was bowled out for five runs.
First ball hit me on the 'and, second 'ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, the fourth bowled me out.
Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted.
So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands.
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.
gloss: From the inside to the outside of; out of.
pos: prep
tags: informal
proscribed
sometimes
examples: throw it out the window; get it out your mind
We are gonna get evicted. —If your fat butt fits out the door, that is.
Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?
Thy roselips and full blue eyes / Take the heart from out my breast.
After she'd made her single cup of coffee she sat looking out the window into the slushy, halficy backyard and dialed Tony's number on Staten Island.
gloss: A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
pos: noun
examples: They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
You might phrase it like this, for example: “I’ve noticed you’ve been making some healthier choices. I’ve been thinking about starting a GLP-1, and I’m wondering if you’ve thought about it.” That gives the other person an out—they can easily brush off or shut down the conversation if they’d rather not get into it.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A card which can make a hand a winner.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A trip out; an outing.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know.
gloss: One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: 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; […]
gloss: A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
pos: noun
gloss: A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: An outtake.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 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.
gloss: A dram glass.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] 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.'
gloss: To eject; to expel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a king outed of his country
The French have been outed from their holds.
"I outed myself for life that night. I can put up a show fight and exhibition bout, but I'm done for the real thing."
gloss: To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Truth will out.
In which Argument he whose courage can serve him to give the first onset, must look for two severall oppositions: the one from those who having sworn themselves to long custom and the letter of the Text, will not out of the road: the other from those whose grosse and vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimoniall purposes, and in the work of male and female think they have all.
In those opening minutes City looked like a team that were not ready for Celtic's intensity. They looked a bit shocked to be involved in a fight. Class will out, though.
gloss: To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com.
"Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy."
gloss: To reveal (a secret).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
[Tom] Holland himself admitted to GQ last year that the two hadn't really wanted to go public with their dating status. A video of them making out in a car outed their relationship.
gloss: To reveal (a person) as LGBTQ+ (gay, trans, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She throws her head back and lets out a warm laugh before she continues, “After that I thought, What am I so worried about? So I began to tell more people, and the more I outed myself, the easier it got.”
Trans Media Watch had recently spoken at the Leveson Inquiry about how the Sun and the Daily Mail routinely outed trans people, publishing old names and photos, for no reason other than because they could.
Always in my life I knew I was different. I also accepted that in a way, but I thought I could just live out those desires in private, for myself. I also have gone out en femme for a couple of years. […] I outed myself to my sister, which was super positive and is^([sic]) now my biggest supporter (love u sis!).
The Parkses were strict and narrowminded, and not knowing what to do with their recently outed bisexual teenage daughter, their obvious solution was to cut her off from her friends and keep her from leaving the house.
As of 2018, I chair the workforce committee and lead on diversity and inclusion, including heading up a policy review on gender identity and trans inclusion, although that led me to be publicly outed as non-binary in the Sunday Times.
Like [Paul] Graham, [Peter] Thiel would attract his own fair share of controversies, including being a rare vocal Trump backer among his tech peers during the 2016 election and secretly funding a lawsuit that would lead to the demise of Gawker Media, in retaliation for the site outing him as gay nearly a decade earlier.
gloss: To kill; to snuff out.
pos: verb
examples: "In my own case, I was beaten about the head by their wings, so we have had a remarkable exhibition of their various methods of offence." "It has been touch and go for our lives," said Lord John, gravely, "and I could not think of a more rotten sort of death than to be outed by such filthy vermin."
gloss: Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I worked away cleaning the U-bend until all the gunge was out.
This building is unsafe. Keep out!
gloss: Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment.
gloss: Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sentenced to five years, he could be out in three with good behavior.
gloss: Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The TV won't work with the plug out!
gloss: Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I've got diabetes, so cookies are right out.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Power is out in the entire city.
My wi-fi is out.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most of the city got service back yesterday, but my neighborhood is still out.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: School is out tomorrow due to snow.
When college is out for the summer, I'll head back to my home state.
when school gets out today
After school's out, I go to the library until my mom gets off work.
No one is out screaming about Congress being out on a month long vacation.
[…] I had to be there after high school, I mean, after school was out, and after college was out, I had to go straight home.
It's a good thing that Congress is out for the month of August […]
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: out cold (deep degree, difficult or impossible to rouse), down for the count
out like a light
I had a whack on the head and was out for a few seconds.
gloss: Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Black is out this season. The new black is white.
gloss: Open or public (about something).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.
However, for a transgender man, while living stealth can be a feasible option for some, key people will need to know […] Not everyone has to be out, loud and proud or march down the streets holding trans flags […]
gloss: Open or public (about something).
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
uncommon
examples: She was “out” as a survivor for the first time in her life. “I had friends who had known me many, many years who are totally astounded, shocked,” she said. “They could not believe that I was a Holocaust survivor. […]”
gloss: Freed from secrecy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My secret is out.
gloss: Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Did you hear? Their newest CD is out!
The game was commercially released on Xbox and PC in 2005 as an installment of the Close Combat series, which had been out since 1996.
gloss: Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.
gloss: Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sun is out, and it's a lovely day.
gloss: Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: "Pray, is she out, or is she not?—I am puzzled.—She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being out; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she is."
gloss: At or near its lowest level.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You can walk to the island when the tide's out.
gloss: Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.
gloss: Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out.
The measurement was out by three millimetres.
gloss: A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
pos: intj
tags: especially
examples: Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out.
[Galactic Federation official]: 'Does Samus suspect anything?' / Ship AI: 'No, I do not think so.' / [Galactic Federation official]: 'Good. Monitor her closely.' / Ship AI: 'Affirmative. Out.'
gloss: A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
pos: intj
tags: especially
humorous
slang
examples: Welp, I got nothing else to say. Mikey out.
gloss: Get out; begone; away!
pos: intj
examples: Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
Synonyms: away
passé
unchic
Antonyms: in
safe
closeted
in the closet
Related words: There are numerous individual phrasal verbs
go out
pull out
put out
take out
and so on
outen
Derived words: 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
jerk one 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
pull out all the stops
pull out the stops
put out
put out feelers
rideout
rub one out
rub out
single out
suss out
thought-out
turn out
wash out
way out
weed out
wipe out
yell out
zonk out
zoom out
over and out
all-out
bear out
blow out
boxout
but
campout
cashout
changeout
chimpout
cookout
crash out
dout
down but not out
dustout
earnout
eat out
fallout
fanout
farm out
far out
fit-out
fitout
fitting-out
flunkout
flyout
forceout
freakout
freezeout
full-out
geekout
go out
greenout
hangout
haulout
hereout
hideout
ice-out
jumpout
kludge out
lay out
lead-out
light out
mailout
missout
moveout
one-outer
on the outs
opt-out
out-
outage
out-and-back
out-and-home
outback
outbowed
outbox
outbreeder
outbuilding
outbye
outclearing
outcode
outcome
outcourt
outcue
outdiffuse
outdoors
outer
outfeed
outform
outformation
outgate
outgoing
outgrade
outguard
outhale
outhole
outie
outing
outlane
outline
outlink
outlook
outmost
outness
out-of-course
out of course
out of favour
out of favor
out of gauge
out of turn
outpart
outplant
output
Out Rawcliffe
outright
outroduction
outroductory
outseam
outsentry
outsert
outsettler
outside
outspan
outstable
outta
outtie
outvoter
outward
outwards
outway
outwicking
outworn
outy
peelout
pick out
pigout
pinout
pitchout
playout
popout
printout
pull out
pull-out
pullout
punt-out
rainout
redout
ring out
rope out
run out
screenout
setout
shakeout
share out
share-out
shareout
sickout
sitout
slideout
snowout
spinout
splashout
St Cuthbert Out
stretch out
swingout
switchout
talk out of turn
thereout
throughout
throw out
tie-out
timeout
time-out
troon out
utmost
veg out
wearout
whereout
wideout
wung-out
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: uit: weg
lang: Finnish
word: poissa
lang: Finnish
word: kaukana
lang: French
word: loin
lang: French
word: hors
lang: German
word: draußen
lang: German
word: fern
lang: Latvian
word: ārā
lang: Norwegian
word: vekk
lang: Norwegian
word: borte
lang: Portuguese
word: longe
lang: Spanish
word: lejos
lang: Swedish
word: undan
lang: Swedish
word: borta
lang: Swedish
word: ur vägen
lang: Finnish
word: loppuun
lang: Finnish
word: loppuun asti
lang: French
word: à fond
lang: German
word: aus-
lang: Swedish
word: ut
lang: Finnish
word: täysin
lang: Finnish
word: ihan
lang: French
word: à fond
lang: German
word: aus-
lang: Swedish
word: ut
lang: Esperanto
word: elŝrankigi
lang: Finnish
word: paljastaa
lang: French
word: sortir du placard
lang: German
word: outen
lang: Polish
word: autować
lang: Polish
word: wyautować
lang: Portuguese
word: tirar do armário
lang: Spanish
word: sacar del armario
lang: Spanish
word: sacar del clóset
lang: Swedish
word: outa
lang: Tagalog
word: magladlad
lang: Czech
word: vyautovaný
lang: Finnish
word: palanut
lang: Danish
word: slut
lang: French
word: terminé
lang: Swedish
word: klart slut