out
UK /ˈäʊ̯t/ · US /ˈaʊ̯t/ adverb, preposition, noun, verb, adjective, interjection
Forms outs outing outed oot oute
- adverb Away from the inside or centre. “The magician tapped the hat, and a rabbit jumped out.”
- adverb Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus. “Once they had landed, the commandos quickly spread out along the beach.”
- adverb Specifically, away from home or one's usual place. “Let’s eat out tonight”
- adverb Away from the doer, especially vigorously. “hit out, lash out, speak out, shout out, yell out”
- adverb (informal) 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") “Five weeks out from the passage of the law, something has to change.”
- adverb Outside; not indoors. “Last night we slept out under the stars.”
- adverb (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area. “The football caught the edge of the line but then bounced out.”
- adverb Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. “Turn the lights out.”
- preposition (informal, sometimes proscribed) From the inside to the outside of; out of. “throw it out the window; get it out your mind”
- noun A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. “They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.”
- noun (baseball) 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.
- noun (cricket) 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.
- noun (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
- noun (dated) A trip out; an outing.
- noun (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
- noun A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
- noun (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
- verb (transitive) To eject; to expel.
- verb (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
- verb (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
Synonyms
away through come to light crop out out cold down for the count démodé all out[intensive off passé unchic come out of the closet come out extinct forbidden prohibited proscribed taboo tabu verboten knocked out kayoed KO'd stunned
Antonyms
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”).
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- adverb In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; --opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc. Out is used in a variety of applications, as: --
- adverb Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out. "My shoulder blade is out." Shak.
- noun One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; --generally in the plural.
- noun A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; --chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.
Etymology [OE. out, ut, oute, ute, AS. , and , , fr. ; akin to D. uit, OS. , G. aus, OHG. -, Icel. , Sw. ut, Dan. ud, Goth. ut, Skr. ud. About, But, prep., Carouse, Utter, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details