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COME OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appear or become visible; make a showing
Example:
I hope the list key is going to surface again
Synonyms:
come on; come out; show up; surface; turn up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be issued or published
Example:
The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet
Synonyms:
appear; come out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Come out of
Example:
The words seemed to come out by themselves
Synonyms:
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):
pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)
radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)
leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)
escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)
fall (come out; issue)
debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)
come out; fall out (come off)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Break out
Example:
The tooth erupted and had to be extracted
Synonyms:
break through; come out; erupt; push through
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
appear (come into sight or view)
Verb group:
erupt (appear on the skin)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):
dehisce (burst or split open)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
Example:
Jerry came in third in the Marathon
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
rank (take or have a position relative to others)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 6
Meaning:
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed
Example:
The truth will out
Synonyms:
come out; out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 7
Meaning:
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
Example:
This actor outed last year
Synonyms:
come out; come out of the closet; out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 8
Meaning:
Bulge outward
Example:
His eyes popped
Synonyms:
bug out; bulge; bulge out; come out; pop; pop out; protrude; start
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 9
Meaning:
Make oneself visible; take action
Example:
Young people should step to the fore and help their peers
Synonyms:
come forward; come out; come to the fore; step forward; step to the fore; step up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 10
Meaning:
Come off
Example:
His hair and teeth fell out
Synonyms:
come out; fall out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 11
Meaning:
Result or end
Example:
How will the game turn out?
Synonyms:
come out; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):
eventuate (come out in the end)
work out (happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
If you have a secret, or if someone has kept one from you, it would likely come out now.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"If ever you need us again," she said, "come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance. Good-bye!"
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Do you say nothing has come out of that room—absolutely nothing?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Yes. Why hasn't she come out to the gate, and what have we come in here for? Oh, Peggotty!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Matt had dashed into the cabin and come out with a rifle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I was sure that would come out, if it was so.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I will put it first through the door; for it is ill to come out when you can neither see nor guard yourself.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Boy Jim had come out from the forge with his hammer in his hand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, was astonished to see Edward himself come out.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There are two which I want to have come out, but I must wait a week.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
