out

See also: Out, OUT, oût, ouț, and out-

out - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: out, IPA: /aʊt/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /æɔt/, /æʊt/
  • (Canada) IPA: /ʌʊt/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /ɘʉt/

Adverb

out (not comparable)

  1. Away from the inside, centre or other point of reference.
    • 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.
  2. Away from home or one's usual place.
    • Let’s eat out tonight
  3. Outside; not indoors.
    • Last night we slept out under the stars.
  4. Away from; at a distance.
    • Keep out!
  5. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
    • Turn the lights out.
    • Put the fire out.
    • I painted out that nasty mark on the wall.
  6. To the end; completely.
    • I haven’t finished. Hear me out.
  7. Used to intensify or emphasize.
    • The place was all decked out for the holidays.
  8. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
    • The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
  9. (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).
    • Wilson was bowled out for five runs.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (not at home): in

Derived terms

Translations

  • Azerbaijani: içindən, içəridən
  • Catalan: fora (ca)
  • Cebuano: gawas
  • Chechen: ара (ara)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Dutch: buiten (nl)
  • Esperanto: ekstere
  • Finnish: (elative case), ulos (fi), pois (fi)
  • French: hors (fr), dehors (fr)
  • German: heraus (de) (motion toward the speaker), hinaus (de) (motion away from the speaker), draußen (de)
    • Alemannic German: use
  • Higaonon: gawas
  • Hungarian: ki (hu)
  • Irish: amach (goal-oriented, moving from "in" to "out"), amuigh (non–goal-oriented, remaining "out")
  • Latvian: ārā
  • Norwegian: ut (no)
  • Occitan: fòra (oc)
  • Portuguese: fora (pt)
  • Russian: из (ru) (iz)
  • Sindhi: ٻاهر
  • Spanish: fuera (es)
  • Swedish: ur (sv), utur (sv)

Preposition

out

  1. From the inside to the outside of; out of.

Usage notes

  • The use of out as a preposition, as in look out the window, is standard in American, Australian, and New Zealand English, and is common in speech and informal contexts in Britain, but is not standard British English.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (away from the inside): in

Derived terms

Translations

In many languages there is no direct translation, as the idea expressed by the English adverb is expressed by a prefix in many languages. Other West Germanic languages are halfway in-between to some extent as it uses a prefix in the infinitive of its verbs, but often, though not always, separates the prefix into the same form as the English adverb when conjugating them.

  • Dutch: usually expressed by the prefix uit-
  • Esperanto: usually expressed by the prefix el- and/or preposition el (1), ekstere (2)
  • Finnish: ablative case (-lta, -ltä) or elative case (-sta, -stä)
  • German: usually expressed by the prefix aus-
  • Hungarian: usually expressed by the prefix ki-
  • Latin: usually expressed by the prefix ex-
  • Latvian: usually expressed by the prefix iz-
  • Russian: usually expressed by the prefix вы- (vy-), sometimes by вз- (vz-), воз- (voz-)
  • Slovak: usually expressed by the prefix vy-, or sometimes z-
  • Swedish: sometimes expressed by the prefix ut. In some cases considered somewhat formal.

Noun

out (plural outs)

  1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
    • They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
  5. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
  6. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
    • Antonym: in
  7. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
  8. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.

Descendants

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To eject; to expel.
  2. (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
  3. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
  4. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
    • A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
  5. (transitive, LGBT) To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
  6. To kill; to snuff out.

Synonyms

  • (reveal a secret): See also divulge

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

out (not comparable)

  1. Not inside a place one might otherwise be expected to be, especially a place one was formerly or is customarily inside:
    1. Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment.
      • I'm sorry, Mr Smith is out at the moment.
    2. Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement
      • Sentenced to five years, he could be out in three with good behavior.
    3. Not inside or within something.
      • I worked away cleaning the U-bend until all the gunge was out.
    4. Not fitted or inserted into something.
      • The TV won't work with the plug out!
    5. (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, falling or passing or being situated outside the bounds of the playing area.
      • I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.
  2. Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
    1. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
      • He bowls, Johnson pokes at it [] and [] Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!
    2. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.
      • Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one.
    3. (of options) acceptable, permissible
      • I've got diabetes so cookies are right out
    4. (of certain services, devices, or facilities) Not available; out of service.
      • Power is out in the entire city.
      • My wi-fi is out.
    5. (of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.
      • Most of the city got service back yesterday, but my neighborhood is still out.
    6. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.
      • I called round to the house but all the lights were out and no one was home.
    7. (of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.
      • 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
    8. No longer popular or in fashion.
      • Black is out this season. The new black is white.
  3. Open or public (about something).
    1. (LGBT) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
      • It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
    2. (by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.
  4. Freed from from secrecy.
    • My secret is out.
  5. Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
    1. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
      • Did you hear? Their newest CD is out!
    2. (of flowers) In bloom.
      • The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.
    3. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
      • The sun is out, and it's a lovely day.
    4. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
  6. Of the tide, at or near its lowest level.
    • You can walk to the island when the tide's out.
  7. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more
    • Do you have any bread? Sorry, we're out.
  8. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount.
    • Nothing adds up in this report. All these figures are out.
    • The measurement was out by three millimetres.

Usage notes

  • In cricket, the specific cause or rule under which a batsman is out appears after the word “out”, e.g., “out hit the ball twice”.
  • In baseball, the cause is expressed as a verb with adverbial “out”, e.g., “he grounded out”.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (disqualified from playing): in, safe
  • (openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+): closeted

Hyponyms

  • (openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+): openly gay, etc.

Translations

Interjection

out

  1. (procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
    • Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out.
  2. Get out; begone; away!

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Derived terms

See also English phrasal verbs with particle (out)

terms derived from out (all parts of speech)

Translations

out - Breton

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ut/

Verb

out

  1. second-person singular present indicative of bezañ

out - Bukiyip

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [əwutʰ]

Noun

out

  1. rat

out - Chinese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): au1

Verb

out

  1. (slang) to be outdated

Adjective

out

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) outdated

out - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aʊ̯t/, [ʔaʊ̯tʰ]

Adjective

out (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. (colloquial) out of fashion
  2. (Austria, Switzerland, dated anywhere else, sports) ball crossing or landing outside of baseline or sideline (Association football: touchline) and thus becoming out of play
    • Der Ball war out.The ball was out.
    • Synonym: aus

Declension

Indeclinable, predicative-only.

Derived terms

Out

out - Haitian Creole

Noun

out

  1. August

out - Mauritian Creole

Noun

out

  1. August

out - Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /out/

Adjective

out (comparative ouder, superlative outst)

  1. old

Inflection

Adjective

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: oud
    • Afrikaans: oud
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: hau
    • Jersey Dutch: āud, āut
    • Negerhollands: oud, ouw, houw, hou
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: ou, oud
  • Limburgish: aad

out - Spanish

Noun

out m (plural outs)

  1. (baseball) out

out - Yola

Adverb

out

  1. Alternative form of udh
Meaning and Definition of out
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