out

The magician tapped the hat, and a rabbit jumped out.

There was a hole in the bucket, and all the water leaked out.

Let’s eat out tonight

Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.

Specifically, away from home or one's usual place.

hit out, lash out, speak out, shout out, yell out

Away from the doer, especially vigorously.

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.

Five years out from the passing of the law, nothing had actually changed.

The election is a long way out. (a long way in the future)

(informal) 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")

Last night we slept out under the stars.

It's cold out.

The football caught the edge of the line but then bounced out.

(sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.

Turn the lights out.

Put the fire out.

I painted out that nasty mark on the wall.

Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

I haven’t finished. Hear me out.

Sorry love, we've got no bananas. We've sold out.

Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 4:23:

I'm all cried out / You took a whole lot of loving for a handful of nothing

1984, "All cried out", song by English singer-songwriter Alison Moyet

To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.

After hours at the party, she was all danced out.

Shows that an activity has been completed to the point of exhaustion.

The place was all decked out for the holidays.

The singer is bringing out a new album next month.

The sun has brought the flowers out.

Into a state of existence or visibility.

The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.

(of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.

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.

1876, The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32]., page 66:

Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted.

1984, Official Baseball Guide, page 211:

So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands.

2007, Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27:

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.

2010, Mark Butcher, Paul Abraham, Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself, page A-65:

(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).

amach

goal-oriented, moving from "in" to "out"

по́за (póza) ((+ accusative or instrumental))

eşikdə

away from one's usual place or not indoors

pois

into a state of non-operation or non-existence

pois päältä

lights, radio etc.; not used of fire, see verb sammuttaa

There are numerous individual phrasal verbs

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 (“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”).


out

throw it out the window; get it out your mind

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?

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

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.

2012, Thomas Gifford, Woman in the Window:

(informal, sometimes proscribed) From the inside to the outside of; out of.


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.

2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:

(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.

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.

2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57:

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.

2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21:

(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.

Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

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; […]

1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192:

(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.

2015, Keith Beattie, Trent Griffiths, D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews
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.

[…] 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.'

1873, Godfrey Holden Pike, Byeways of two cities (page 226)

→ Greek: άουτ (áout)

→ Japanese: アウト (auto)

→ Korean: 아웃 (aut)

→ Spanish: out


out

a king outed of his country

The French have been outed from their holds.

1674, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in four bookes:

"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."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

Coordinate term: crop up

Truth will out.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

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.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

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.

2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport:

(intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.

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."

2017, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3509: Sensitive Information:

(transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.

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.

2022 December 16, Alyssa Bailey, “Zendaya Took Tom Holland to Visit Her Old School in Oakland”, in Elle:

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.”

2014 July 18, Jase Peeples, “Susan Blu: Transformation of an Animation Icon”, in The Advocate:

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.

2015, Juliet Jacques, Trans: A Memoir, Verso Books, →ISBN:

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!).

2015 December 30, Kathy, “Kathy's Favorite Photo (of Kathy!)”, in Femulate:

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.

2016, Molly Booth, Saving Hamlet, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

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.

2020, Jos Twist, Meg-John Barker, Kat Gupta, Benjamin Vincent, Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 116:

(transitive, LGBTQ) To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).

"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."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

en-verb

out (third-person singular simple present outs, present participle outing, simple past and past participle outed)

outs (present singular third-person)
outing (participle present)
outed (participle past)
outed (past)
oute (alternative)

→ German: outen

⇒ Polish: autować


out

I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment.

Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:

Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment.

Sentenced to five years, he could be out in three with good behavior.

Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement.

The TV won't work with the plug out!

I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.

(sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, falling or passing or being situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.

I worked away cleaning the U-bend until all the gunge was out.

This building is unsafe. Keep out!

He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!

Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

(in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.

Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.

Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one.

(of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.

I've got diabetes, so cookies are right out.

(of options) No longer acceptable or permissible.

Power is out in the entire city.

My wi-fi is out.

(of certain services, devices, or facilities) Not available; out of service.

devices; or facilities; devices; or facilities

Most of the city got service back yesterday, but my neighborhood is still out.

(of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.

I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home.

(of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.

No one is out screaming about Congress being out on a month long vacation.

1990 August 20, PBS NewsHour (TV), DeFrank (actor):

[…] 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.

2012 October 23, Kids As Caregivers Face Special Challenges (radio), via National Public Radio:

It's a good thing that Congress is out for the month of August […]

2013 August 4, Powerhouse Roundtable (TV), Jeff Zeleny (actor), via ABC:

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.

(of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.

I had a whack on the head and was out for a few seconds.

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.

2011, Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History:

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 […]

2018, Matthew Waites, Supporting Young Transgender Men: A Guide for Professionals, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 40:

(LGBTQ) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).

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. […]”

2014, Arlene Stein, Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.

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.

2009, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, page 96:

Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:

Released, available for purchase, download or other use.

The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.

The sun is out, and it's a lovely day.

(of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.

Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.

"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."

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 98:

(obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.

You can walk to the island when the tide's out.

Of the tide, at or near its lowest level.

Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.

all out[intensive#English:_linguistics|intensive]] but synonymous>

Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.

Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out.

The measurement was out by three millimetres.

(of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.

in

antonym(s) of “disqualified from playing”

closeted

antonym(s) of “openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+”

vyautovaný

cricket, baseball: disqualified from playing further in an inning


out

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.'

2002 November 18, Nintendo R&D1, Metroid Fusion, Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, scene: dispatch:

(procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):