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Out   /aʊt/   Listen
Out

adverb
1.
Away from home.
2.
Moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden.
3.
From one's possession.  Synonym: away.  "Gave away the tickets"
verb
1.
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality.  Synonyms: come out, come out of the closet.
2.
Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle.  "Someone outed a CIA agent"
3.
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed.  Synonym: come out.
adjective
1.
Not allowed to continue to bat or run.  "He fanned out"
2.
Being out or having grown cold.  Synonym: extinct.  "The fire is out"
3.
Not worth considering as a possibility.
4.
Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election.
5.
Excluded from use or mention.  Synonyms: forbidden, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten.  "In our house dancing and playing cards were out" , "A taboo subject"
6.
Directed outward or serving to direct something outward.  "The out basket"
7.
No longer fashionable.
8.
Outside or external.
9.
Outer or outlying.
10.
Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.  Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, stunned.
noun
1.
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball.



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"Out" Quotes from Famous Books



... humanity; but now, having witnessed the miseries of a race superior to either, the feeling glows with the fervor of personal commiseration: so true is it that visible misery will raise us to exertion, which the picture, however powerfully delineated, can never produce. The thousands daily knelled out of the world, who lie in gorgeous sepulchres, or rot unburied on the surface of the earth, excite no emotion compared to that conjured up by the meanest dead at our feet. We read of tens of thousands killed and wounded in battle, and the glory ...
— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel
... is firs' comin' out on de pasture, Deir nice leetle tail stickin' up on deir back, Dey ronne wit' deir moder, an' play wit' each oder An' jomp all de tam jus' de sam' dey ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... you can get much closer to your audience. In a sense, they appreciate the task you have before you and send out their sympathy. Extemporize, and you will not have to stop and fumble around amidst your notes—you can keep your eye afire with your message and hold your audience with your very glance. You yourself will feel their response as you read the effects of your warm, spontaneous words, ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
... a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences; so as, out of two or more sentences, to make but one: it sometimes connects only words."—Murray, and others. Here are more than thirty words, awkwardly and loosely strung together; and all that is said in them, might ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... allow himself to become absorbed in the wider interests opened out to him by his intimacy with the greatest Christian scholars of his day. He prepared a Spanish translation of the Pentateuch for the Amsterdam Jews, who were slow to adopt Dutch as their speech, a fact not wonderful when it is remembered that ...
— Chapters on Jewish Literature • Israel Abrahams


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