Out definition
The troops fanned out.
An example of out is having a date, to go out.
An example of out is going to the park to play, to be out in the park.
An example of out is leaving one room to another, to go out of the room.
An example of out is Ellen DeGeneres.
The drug put him out for two hours.
The moon came out.
Speak out.
Giving out free passes.
He grounded out to the shortstop.
The auto workers went out when management refused to reduce outsourcing.
Stepped out for a drink of water; went out for the evening.
Threw his back out.
The boy went out to play.
Is it snowing out?
Drained the water out.
Picked out the thief in the crowd.
The supplies have run out.
The fire has gone out.
Play the game out.
All decked out for the dance; painted out the wall.
Went out for the basketball team; was out to win.
The new car models have come out.
The paper came out early today.
Narrow ties have gone out.
Voted the incompetent governor out.
The out surface of a ship's hull.
The out doorway.
Was out for an hour during surgery.
A taxi is out, because we don't have enough money. From now on, eating candy before dinner is out.
I can't offer you coffee because we're out.
An out performer.
The power has been out for a week.
The lights were out next door.
He fell out the window.
Out this door is the garage.
The house has a garden out back.
The window was my only out.
Truth will out.
Outed the shopkeeper as a spy; outed his classmate as a cheater.
Outdistance.
Come out and play.
Disease broke out.
The moon came out.
Vote them out.
Sing out, speak out.
Stand out, eke out, lengthen out.
To feel put out; friends may fall out.
Long skirts went out.
Pick out.
To pass out.
To fly out.
They live ten miles out.
To go out for dinner.
Argue it out.
Tired out, dry out.
To put out a new style.
Debutantes who come out.
Fade out, burn out, die out.
Take time out from one's busy day.
An out flight.
Out because of sickness.
Out at the elbow.
Out in one's estimates.
He's out to humiliate me.
The jury is still out.
Out fifty dollars.
He walked out the door.
To drive out a country road.
A rousing cry from out the trumpet's throat.
The truth will out.
A press story that outs an undercover agent.
Outbuilding, outpatient.
Outbound.
Switch the lights out.
Put the fire out.
I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
An example of out is a baseball hit over the fence or the field.
Went out to hail a taxi.
- Not on friendly terms; disagreeing.
- to play the first nine holes of an 18-hole golf course
- on unfriendly terms
- visiting here and there
- by far; without comparison
- completely; thoroughly
- determined to get or do
- away from difficulty or danger
- from inside of
- from the number of
- past the boundaries or scope of; beyond
- from (material, etc.)Made out of stone.
- because of; for the purpose ofout of spite, to make conversation out of politeness.
- given birth by
- not in possession of; having noout of money, out of gas.
- not in a conditionout of order, out of focus.
- so as to deprive or be deprived ofCheat out of money.
- not sophisticated, fashionable, etc.; not hip, with-it, etc.
- in a diminished or impaired mental state; specif., confused, intoxicated, unconscious, etc.
- in, to, or near one's neighborhood
- dazed or stunned, but still standing
- completely exhausted
- available or in existenceThere are lots of good colleges out there.
- odd, eccentric, etc.
- speak! say what is on your mind!
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of out
- < out
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English ūt ud- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From out
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English ut-, from Old English Å«t- (“out, without, outside") (also as Å«ta-, Å«tan- (“from or on the outside, without"), as in Å«tanweard (“outward, external")), from Proto-Germanic *Å«t- (“out-"). Cognate with Dutch uit-, German aus-, Swedish ut-, Icelandic út-. More at out.
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