out

adv

1. (not-comparable)Away from the inside or centre.

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

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

2. (not-comparable)Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.

   “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.”

3. (not-comparable)Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.

   “Let’s eat out tonight”

4. (not-comparable)Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.

   “hit out, lash out, speak out, shout out, yell out”

5. (informal, not-comparable)Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually before, a stated event, or into the future) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from" or "to")

   “Five weeks out from the passage of the law, something has to change.”

   “The election is a long way out.”

   “Work may shift out as much as two weeks.”

6. (not-comparable)Outside; not indoors.

   “Last night we slept out under the stars.”

   “It's cold out.”

7. (not-comparable)Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.

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

8. (not-comparable)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.”

9. (not-comparable)To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.

   “I haven’t finished. Hear me out.”

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

   “write out”

   “Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.”

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

10. (not-comparable)To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.

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

11. (not-comparable)Used to intensify or emphasize.

    “The place was all decked out for the holidays.”

12. (not-comparable)Into a state of existence or visibility.

    “The singer is bringing out a new album next month.”

    “The sun has brought the flowers out.”

13. (not-comparable, usually)Into a state of existence or visibility.

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

14. (not-comparable)So as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket or a forced out in baseball).

    “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.”

prep

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

   “throw it out the window; get it out your mind”

   “We are gonna get evicted. —If your fat butt fits out the door, that is.”

   “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.”

noun

1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.

   “They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.”

   “You might phrase it like this, for example: “I’ve noticed you’ve been making some healthier choices. I’ve been thinking about starting a GLP-1, and I’m wondering if you’ve thought about it.” That gives the other person an out—they can easily brush off or shut down the conversation if they’d rather not get into it.”

2. 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.

   “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.”

3. 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. A card which can make a hand a winner.

   “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.”

5. (dated)A trip out; an outing.

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

6. (in-plural)One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.

   “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; […]”

7. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
8. (dated)A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
9. (colloquial)An outtake.

   “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.”

10. (obsolete)A dram glass.

    “[…] 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.'”

verb

1. (transitive)To eject; to expel.

   “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."”

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

   “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.”

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

   “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."”

4. (transitive)To reveal (a secret).

   “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.”

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

   “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 (love u sis!).”

   “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.”

6. To kill; to snuff out.

   “"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."”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside

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

   “This building is unsafe. Keep out!”

2. (not-comparable)Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:

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

3. (not-comparable)Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:

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

4. (not-comparable)Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:

   “The TV won't work with the plug out!”

5. (not-comparable)Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:

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

6. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

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

7. (not-comparable, usually)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

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

8. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

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

9. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

   “Power is out in the entire city.”

   “My wi-fi is out.”

10. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

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

11. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

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

12. (not-comparable, usually)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

    “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.”

    “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 […]”

13. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

    “Near-synonyms: out cold (deep degree, difficult or impossible to rouse), down for the count”

    “out like a light”

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

14. (not-comparable)Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:

    “Black is out this season. The new black is white.”

15. (not-comparable)Open or public (about something).

    “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 […]”

16. (broadly, not-comparable, uncommon)Open or public (about something).

    “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. […]””

17. (not-comparable)Freed from secrecy.

    “My secret is out.”

18. (not-comparable)Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:

    “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.”

19. (not-comparable)Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:

    “The garden looks beautiful now that the roses are out.”

20. (not-comparable)Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:

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

21. (not-comparable, obsolete)Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:

    “"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."”

22. (not-comparable)At or near its lowest level.

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

23. (not-comparable)Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.

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

24. (Australia, not-comparable)Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.

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

    “The measurement was out by three millimetres.”

intj

1. (especially)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.”

   “[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.'”

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

   “Welp, I got nothing else to say. Mikey out.”

3. Get out; begone; away!

   “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”