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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From a combination of Old English ūt and ūte. Cognate with Dutch uit, German aus, Swedish ut, ute, Danish ud, ude.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adverb

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).

[edit] Synonyms

  • (not at home): away

[edit] Antonyms

  • (not at home): in

[edit] Derived terms

terms derived from out

[edit] Translations

away from expected or default place
at a distance
away from the inside or the centre
  • Irish: amach (ga) (goal-oriented, moving from "in" to "out"), amuigh (ga) (non–goal-oriented, remaining "out") (non–goal-oriented, remaining "out")
  • Spanish: fuera (es)
into a state of non-operation or non-existence
intensifier, emphasizer
  • Finnish: (no equivalent)
of a player, disqualified

[edit] Preposition

out

  1. Away from the inside.
    He threw it out the door.
  2. (informal) Away from the center.

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[edit] Antonyms

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

[edit] Translations

away from the inside
away from the center
  • Finnish: (elative case)
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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-
  • Russian: вы- (ru)
  • Slovak: usually expressed by the prefix vy- or sometimes z-
  • Swedish: sometimes expressed by the prefix ut- (sv). In some cases considered somewhat formal.

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] Translations

means of exit
removal from play in baseball

[edit] Verb

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) as having a certain secret.

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[edit] Adjective

out (not comparable)

  1. (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
  2. Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.

[edit] Usage notes

  • 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".

[edit] Synonyms

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

[edit] Antonyms

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

[edit] Translations

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

[edit] References

  • 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

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[edit] German

[edit] Etymology

From English out

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʔaʊ̯t/

[edit] Adjective

out (not comparable)

  1. out of fashion

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French août (“August”)

[edit] Noun

out

  1. August

[edit] Middle Dutch

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Adjective

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

  1. old

[edit] Descendants

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