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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From a combination of Old English ūt (from Proto-Germanic *ūt) and ūte. Cognate with West Frisian út, Dutch uit, German aus, Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute, Danish ud, ude.

Pronunciation [edit]

Adverb [edit]

out (comparative more out, superlative most out)

  1. Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
    Let's eat out tonight
    Leave a message with my secretary if I'm out when you call.
  2. Away from; at a distance.
    Keep out!
  3. Away from the inside or the centre.
    The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
  4. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
    Switch the lights out.
    Put the fire out.
  5. Used to intensify or emphasize.
    The place was all decked out for the holidays.
  6. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

Synonyms [edit]

  • (not at home): away

Antonyms [edit]

  • (not at home): in

Derived terms [edit]

terms derived from out

Translations [edit]

away from expected or default place
at a distance
away from the inside or the centre
into a state of non-operation or non-existence
intensifier, emphasizer
of a player, disqualified

Preposition [edit]

out

  1. Away from the inside.
    He threw it out the door.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (informal) Away from the center.
  3. (colloquial) outside
    It's raining out.

Synonyms [edit]

Antonyms [edit]

  • (away from the inside): in
  • (away from the center): into

Translations [edit]

away from the inside
away from the center
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Translation notes

In many languages there is no direct translation, as the idea expressed by the English adverb is expressed by a prefix in many languages. German is somewhat half way in-between 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-, sometimes by вз-, воз-
  • Slovak: usually expressed by the prefix vy-, or sometimes z-
  • Swedish: sometimes expressed by the prefix ut. In some cases considered somewhat formal.

Noun [edit]

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 hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit the batter's wicket with the ball.
  4. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
  5. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
    • Charles Dickens, Bleak House
      "Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."

Translations [edit]

means of exit
removal from play in baseball

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
  2. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret.
  3. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
    A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
  4. (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
    • Shakespeare
      Truth will out.

Translations [edit]

to reveal to be a secret homosexual
to reveal as having a certain secret
to reveal (a secret)

Adjective [edit]

out (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted.
  2. released, available for purchase, download or other use
    Did you hear? Their newest CD is out!
  3. (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
  4. Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.
    It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.

Usage notes [edit]

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

Synonyms [edit]

  • (openly acknowledging one's homosexuality): openly gay

Antonyms [edit]

  • (disqualified from playing): in, safe
  • (openly acknowledging one's homosexuality): closeted

Translations [edit]

released, available
cricket, baseball: disqualified from playing further in an inning
openly acknowledging one's homosexuality
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Derived terms [edit]

terms derived from out (all parts of speech)

Related terms [edit]

References [edit]

  • Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Statistics [edit]

German [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English out

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /aʊ̯t/, [ʔaʊ̯tʰ]

Adjective [edit]

out (not comparable)

  1. out of fashion

Haitian Creole [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From French août (“August”)

Noun [edit]

out

  1. August

Middle Dutch [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Dutch *alt, ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz.

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

out (stem oud-, comparative ouder, superlative outst)

  1. old

Descendants [edit]

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