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US
/ˈaʊt/
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[ UK /ˈaʊt/ ]
[ UK /ˈaʊt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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directed outward or serving to direct something outward
the out doorway
the out basket -
excluded from use or mention
forbidden fruit
a taboo subject
in our house dancing and playing cards were out -
out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
now the Democrats are out -
being out or having grown cold
the fire is out
threw his extinct cigarette into the stream -
outer or outlying
the out islands - knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
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not worth considering as a possibility
a picnic is out because of the weather -
not allowed to continue to bat or run
he fanned out
he was tagged out at second on a close play -
no longer fashionable
that style is out these days -
outside or external
the out surface of a ship's hull
VERB
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to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
This actor outed last year -
be made known; be disclosed or revealed
The truth will out -
reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
Someone outed a CIA agent
The gay actor was outed last week
ADVERB
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moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
the cat came out from under the bed -
away from home
they went out last night -
from one's possession
he gave out money to the poor
gave away the tickets
NOUN
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(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
you only get 3 outs per inning
How To Use out In A Sentence
- If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
- She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
- She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
- Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
