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EXIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of going out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("exit" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Derivation:

exit (move out of or depart from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An opening that permits escape or release

Example:

the canyon had only one issue

Synonyms:

exit; issue; outlet; way out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("exit" is a kind of...):

opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exit"):

outfall (the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water)

Derivation:

exit (move out of or depart from)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Euphemistic expressions for death

Example:

thousands mourned his passing

Synonyms:

departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("exit" is a kind of...):

death; decease; expiry (the event of dying or departure from life)

Domain usage:

euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)

Derivation:

exit (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "exit" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exit"):

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

exit (euphemistic expressions for death)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose the lead

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "exit" is one way to...):

play (participate in games or sport)

Domain category:

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move out of or depart from

Example:

the fugitive has left the country

Synonyms:

exit; get out; go out; leave

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "exit" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Verb group:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exit"):

log off; log out (exit a computer)

undock (move out of a dock)

eject (leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule)

step out (go outside a room or building for a short period of time)

get off (leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.)

fall out (leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation)

get off; hop out (get out of quickly)

file out (march out, in a file)

pop out (exit briefly)

depart; go; go away (move away from a place into another direction)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The men exit the boat

Antonym:

enter (to come or go into)

Derivation:

exit (the act of going out)

exit (an opening that permits escape or release)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It develops in bone marrow then exit via the central sinus.

(Immature B-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac cells from mice lacking the Hop gene fail to exit the cell cycle in the normal manner, continuing to proliferate past the normal developmental stage.

(HOP Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In normal cells, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A expression has been associated with cell-cycle exit and differentiation.

(Entinostat, NCI Thesaurus)

The wedge-shaped area at the central portion of the lung through which the bronchi, vessels and nerves enter or exit the organ.

(Hilar Area of the Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

There is no exit that way?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuraminidase, which is not currently the main target antigen in traditional flu vaccines, enables newly formed flu viruses to exit the host cell and cause further viral replication in the body.

(Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness, NIH)

"No, no—let us be gone," was the anxious reply; and without waiting to take leave of Mr. Rochester, they made their exit at the hall door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Professor carefully tried the lock, lest we might not be able to open it from within should we be in a hurry making our exit.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There had been, so far as we could follow their signs, a tunnel by which the place could be approached, the lower exit of which we had seen from below.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The spacecraft’s first orbital insertion is scheduled for Dec. 31, and OSIRIS-REx will remain in orbit until mid-February 2019, when it exits to initiate another series of flybys for the next survey phase.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)