out

See also: out-

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

• enPR: out, IPA^(key): /aʊt/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /æɔt/, /æʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ʌʊt/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɘʉt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

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. To the end; completely.

   I hadn't finished. Hear me out.

   • Bible, Psalms iv. 23

     Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.

6. Used to intensify or emphasize.

   The place was all decked out for the holidays.

7. (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

• (not at home): away

Antonyms

• (not at home): in

Derived terms

terms derived from out

all out bottle out bowl out bug out camp out chicken out chill out churn out coffeed out come out of the closet come out coming out of one's ears crank out down and out eat one's heart out figure out flesh out foul out freeze out geek out get out go in one ear and out the other hang out hold out inside out iron out kick out kit out knock out lock out one eighty out opt out out of fashion out of it

out of joint out of luck out of one's mind out of place out of pocket out of proportion out of sorts out of stock out of the blue out of the ordinary out of the question out of the way out of the woods out of tune out of wedlock out of work out of out there out to lunch out to, out to get someone out-of-bounds out-of-print pig out put out feelers put out rub out suss out turn out wash out way out weed out wipe out zonk out zoom out

Translations

away from expected or default place

• Czech: venku (cs)
• Dutch: uit (nl), weg (nl)
• Finnish: poissa, ulkona (fi)
• German: heraus (de) (motion toward the speaker), hinaus (de) (motion away from the speaker), draußen (de)
• Greek: έξω (el) (éxo), εκτός (el) (ektós) (formally)
• Irish: amach (goal-oriented, moving from "in" to "out"), amuigh (non–goal-oriented, remaining "out")

• Japanese: 外に (ja) (そとに, soto ni), (away from home) 留主 (るす, rusu)
• Latvian: ārā
• Norwegian: ute (no), borte (no)
• Russian: (not used for "not at home") снаружи (ru) (snarúži), вне (ru) (vne), (where to) наружу (ru) (narúžu), вне дома (vne dóma)
• Scots: oot
• Spanish: afuera (es)
• Welsh: allan (cy)

at a distance

• Dutch: uit (nl): weg (nl)
• Finnish: poissa, kaukana (fi)
• Latvian: ārā

• Norwegian: vekk, borte (no)
• Spanish: lejos (es)

away from the inside or the centre

• Dutch: buiten (nl)
• Esperanto: ekstere
• Finnish: (elative case)
• German: heraus (de) (motion toward the speaker), hinaus (de) (motion away from the speaker), draußen (de)
• Irish: amach (goal-oriented, moving from "in" to "out"), amuigh (non–goal-oriented, remaining "out")

• Latvian: ārā
• Norwegian: ut (no)
• Novial: eku
• Spanish: fuera (es)

into a state of non-operation or non-existence

• Finnish: (no equivalent, see verbs sammuttaa, pysäyttää, lopettaa)

• Norwegian: av (no), ut (no)

intensifier, emphasizer

• Finnish: (no equivalent)

of a player, disqualified

• Finnish: ulkona (fi)
• Japanese: アウト (ja) (auto)
• Korean: 아웃 (ko) (aut)

• Norwegian: ute (no)
• Russian: аут (ru) (áut), удалённый (ru) (udaljónnyj)

Preposition

out

1. Away from the inside.

   He threw it out the door.

2. (colloquial) outside

   It's raining out.

   It's cold out.

Synonyms

• (away from the inside): through

Antonyms

• (away from the inside): in

Translations

away from the inside

• Armenian: դուրս (durs)
• Dutch: uit (nl)
• Finnish: ulkopuolella, ulos (fi)
• Galician: fóra (gl)
• German: aus (de)
• Irish: as

• Latvian: ārā + no (lv)
• Norwegian: ut av
• Russian: из (ru) (iz)
• Scots: oot
• Spanish: fuera (es)

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• Albanian: jashtë
• Arabic: خارج (xārij)
• Basque: at, kanpo
• Catalan: fora
• Mandarin: 外头 (wàitou)
• Serbo-Croatian: van
• Czech: ven (cs)
• Dutch: uit (nl)
• Esperanto: eksteren
• French: hors (fr)
• Hebrew: חוץ (khutz), בחוץ (bakhutz)
• Hungarian: kint (outside), kinn (outside), ki (motion)
• Indonesian: keluar

• Italian: fuori (it)
• Japanese: 外へ (そとへ, soto e)
• Korean: 밖으로 (bakkeuro)
• Latin: ē, ex
• Piedmontese: fora
• Portuguese: fora (pt), exterior (pt), externo (pt)
• Romanian: afară (ro)
• Romansch: ord
• Slovak: von
• Slovene: ven (direction, the transition from in to out), zunaj (the state of being out)
• Spanish: fuera (es)
• Swedish: ut (sv) (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (sv) (the state of being out)

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- (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 hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit 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.
   • 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."

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

Translations

means of exit

• Dutch: buiten (nl)
• Finnish: ulospääsytie

• Japanese: 終わり (おわり, owari), 仕舞 (しまい, shimai)
• Latvian: izeja f

removal from play in baseball

• Finnish: palo (fi)
• French: retrait (fr) m
• Japanese: アウト (ja) (あうと, auto)

• Korean: 아웃 (ko) (aut)
• Russian: аут (ru) m (áut), удаление (ru) n (udalénije)
• Slovak: out (pronounced the English way)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To eject; to expel.
   • Selden

     a king outed from his country

   • Heylin

     The French have been outed of their holds.

2. (transitive) To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
3. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret.
   • 2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com.
4. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).

   A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.

5. (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
   • Shakespeare

     Truth will out.

Translations

to reveal to be a secret homosexual

• French: outer (fr)
• German: outen (de)

• Swedish: (slang) outa (sv)
• Vietnamese: bật mí (vi)

to reveal as having a certain secret

• Swedish: avslöja (sv)

to reveal (a secret)

• Swedish: avslöja (sv)

Adjective

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

• 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

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

Antonyms

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

Translations

released, available

• Catalan: disponible

• Dutch: uit (nl)

cricket, baseball: disqualified from playing further in an inning

• Czech: vyautovaný

• Finnish: palanut

openly acknowledging one's homosexuality

• Czech: otevřený (cs)

• Finnish: avoimesti homoseksuaalinen

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ekstere (1)
• Slovak: von, vonku

Derived terms

terms derived from out (all parts of speech)

all out eat out far out go out on the outs out- out of outer outback

outer outing outness outta outward outwards outworn put out run out way out

Related terms

• outen

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

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: if · there · more · #54: out · into · up · your

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German

Etymology

From English out

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊ̯t/, [ʔaʊ̯tʰ]

Adjective

out (not comparable)

1. out of fashion

Declension

Declension of out

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist out	sie ist out	es ist out	sie sind out
strong declension (without article)	nominative	outer	oute	outes	oute
	genitive	outen	outer	outen	outer
	dative	outem	outer	outem	outen
	accusative	outen	oute	outes	oute
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der oute	die oute	das oute	die outen
	genitive	des outen	der outen	des outen	der outen
	dative	dem outen	der outen	dem outen	den outen
	accusative	den outen	die oute	das oute	die outen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein outer	eine oute	ein outes	(keine) outen
	genitive	eines outen	einer outen	eines outen	(keiner) outen
	dative	einem outen	einer outen	einem outen	(keinen) outen
	accusative	einen outen	eine oute	ein outes	(keine) outen

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French août (“August”)

Noun

out

1. August

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /out/

Adjective

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

1. old

Descendants

• Dutch: oud