Etimology
From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), 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 (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).
adverb
out (not comparable)
Away from the inside, centre or other point of reference.
Away from home or one's usual place.
Outside; not indoors.
Away from; at a distance.
Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
To the end; completely.
Used to intensify or emphasize.
(of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
(cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
(informal) (especially with from, before an event and/or after a unit of time) after; following; later; (loosely) before; preceding; prior to; also an expression of how distant a person or an object is.
Examples
The magician tapped the hat, and a rabbit jumped out.
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.
Let’s eat out tonight
Last night we slept out under the stars.
Keep out!
Turn the lights out.
Put the fire out.
I painted out that nasty mark on the wall.
I haven’t finished. Hear me out.
Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
The place was all decked out for the holidays.
The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
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.
Five years out from the election, nothing still had changed.
Five meters out to the ocean
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synonyms
(not at home): away
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "not at home"): in
preposition
out
From the inside to the outside of; out of. [from 14th c.]
Examples
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.
Related words
synonyms
(away from the inside): through
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "away from the inside"): in
noun
out (plural outs)
A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
(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.
(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.
(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
(dated) A trip out; an outing.
(chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
(printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
Examples
Hyponyms: cop-out, get-out
They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
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.
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.
Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know.
Antonym: in
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; […]
verb
out (third-person singular simple present outs, present participle outing, simple past and past participle outed)
(transitive) To eject; to expel.
(intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
(transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
(transitive) To reveal (a secret).
(transitive, LGBT) To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
To kill; to snuff out.
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."
Synonyms: come to light, crop out
Coordinate term: crop up
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.
"Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy."
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.
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 .
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.
"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."
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synonyms
(reveal a secret): See also Thesaurus:divulge
adjective
out (not comparable)
Not inside a place one might otherwise be expected to be, especially a place one was formerly or is customarily inside:
Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
Open or public (about something).
Freed from secrecy.
Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
Of the tide, at or near its lowest level.
Without; no longer in possession of; not having more
(of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount.
Examples
I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment.
Sentenced to five years, he could be out in three with good behavior.
I worked away cleaning the U-bend until all the gunge was out.
The TV won't work with the plug out!
I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.
He bowls, Johnson pokes at it […] and […] Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!
Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one.
I've got diabetes, so cookies are right out.
Power is out in the entire city.
My wi-fi is out.
Most of the city got service back yesterday, but my neighborhood is still out.
I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home.
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 […]
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 todayAfter school's out, I go to the library until my mom gets off work.
Black is out this season. The new black is white.
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 […]
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. […] ”
My secret is out.
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.
The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.
The sun is out, and it's a lovely day.
"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."
You can walk to the island when the tide's out.
Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.
Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out.
The measurement was out by three millimetres.
Related words
synonyms
(no longer popular): démodé, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable
antonyms
(antonym(s) of "disqualified from playing"): in, safe
(antonym(s) of "openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+"): closeted, in the closet
hyponyms
(openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+): openly gay, etc.
interjection
out
(procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
Get out; begone; away!
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.'
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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coordinate terms
over
related terms
outen