out

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See also: oût and out-

English[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūta (“out; outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *ud (“upwards, away”). Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

out (not comparable)

  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. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) Visible in the sky; not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
    The moon is out.
    The sun came out after the rain, and we saw a rainbow.
  3. Away from; at a distance.
    Keep out!
  4. Away from the inside or the centre.
    The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
  5. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
    Switch the lights out.
    Put the fire out.
  6. To the end; completely.
    I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
    • Bible, Psalms iv. 23:
      Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
  7. Used to intensify or emphasize.
    The place was all decked out for the holidays.
  8. (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).
  9. (procedure word, 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.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (not at home): away

Antonyms[edit]

  • (not at home): in

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Related terms

Translations[edit]

Preposition[edit]

out

  1. (nonstandard, contraction of out of) Away from the inside.
    He threw it out the door.
  2. (colloquial) outside
    It's raining out.
    It's cold out.

Synonyms[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

  • (away from the inside): in

Translations[edit]

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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. 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[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 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[edit]

Verb[edit]

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 gay, bisexual, or transgender.
  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. (intransitive, archaic) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
    • Shakespeare
      Truth will out.
  6. To become apparent.
    • 2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], BBC Sport:
      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.

Translations[edit]

Adjective[edit]

out (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park, volume I, London: T[homas] Egerton, OCLC 39810224, page 98:
      "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."
  2. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
    Did you hear? Their newest CD is out!
    • 2009, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, page 96:
      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.
  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 that one is gay or transgender.
    It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
    • 2011, Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History:
      I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.

Usage notes[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

Antonyms[edit]

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

Translations[edit]

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Derived terms[edit]

terms derived from out (all parts of speech)

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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]

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

Breton[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

out

  1. second-person singular present indicative of bezañ

Chinese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

out

  1. (slang) to be outdated

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English out.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

out (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) out of fashion

Declension[edit]

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Declension of out
number & 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

Synonyms[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • out in Duden online

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French août (“August”)

Noun[edit]

out

  1. August

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

out (comparative ouder, superlative outst)

  1. old
    Antonyms: jonc

Inflection[edit]

Adjective
Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative Indefinite out oude out oude
Definite oude oude
Accusative ouden oude oude oude
Genitive outs ouder outs ouder
Dative ouden ouder ouden ouden

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • “out”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “out (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

out m (plural outs)

  1. (baseball) out
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