put out
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Noun
[edit]- Misspelling of putout.
Translations
[edit]baseball statistic
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Adjective
[edit]put out (comparative more put out, superlative most put out)
- Taking offense; indignant.
- He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct.
- 1991 May 4, Elizabeth Yukins, “Maryland Passes Gay Hate Crimes Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
- Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were "extremely put-out" over this narrow loss.
Translations
[edit]taking offense
Verb
[edit]put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- Don’t forget to put out the dog.
- To expel.
- 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:
- ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
- To remove from office.
- (transitive) To cause something to be out, particularly
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.
- 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham[1]:
- “Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?”
“I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- c. 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord:
- Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool.
- (transitive) To cause something to go out, particularly
- To produce, to emit.
- The factory puts out 4000 units each day.
- This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.
- (obsolete) To express.
- To broadcast, to publish.
- 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:
- ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
- To dislocate (a joint).
- Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.
- To extinguish (fire).
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men:
Put out the Light, and then put out the Light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister,
I can againe thy former light restore,
Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light,
Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature,
I know not where is that Promethaean heate
That can thy Light re-Lume.
- [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
- […] in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
- They worked for days to put out the brushfire.
- She put out her cigarette.
- To turn off (light).
- 2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10:
- 'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".'
'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.
- 'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".'
- Put out those lights before the Germans see them.
- 2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10:
- To produce, to emit.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to sex.
- 1928 December, Our Army, page 19:
- Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?
- 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
- Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC:
- Aarfy […] tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands.
- 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 95:
- Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.[sic]
- 1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232:
- If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.
- 2003, Elizabeth M. Noble, Reading Group, page 205:
- I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.
- 2005, William Heffernan, A Time Gone By:
- This Grosso dated this woman a couple of times, and then, when she wouldn't put out for him, he beat her up and forced her.
Usage notes
[edit]- The object in all transitive senses can come before or after the particle. If it is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle.
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Translations
[edit]to place outside or eject
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to expel, to remove from office — see also expel
to cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb
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sports: to knock out, to eliminate from a competition — see knock out
boxing and medicine: synonym of knock out: to render unconscious — see knock out
to go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail
to produce, to emit
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to broadcast, to publish
to dislocate, injure a joint in the body
to extinguish (fire)
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to consent to sex
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