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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
Example:
you only get 3 outs per inning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("out" is a kind of...):
failure (an act that fails)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "out"):
putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))
strikeout (an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being out or having grown cold
Example:
the fire is out
Synonyms:
extinct; out
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
Synonyms:
kayoed; knocked out; KO'd; out; stunned
Classified under:
Similar:
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Outer or outlying
Example:
the out islands
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
outer (being on the outside or further from a center)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Outside or external
Example:
the out surface of a ship's hull
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
exterior (situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building)
Sense 5
Meaning:
No longer fashionable
Example:
that style is out these days
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Directed outward or serving to direct something outward
Example:
the out basket
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
outgoing (leaving a place or a position)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Excluded from use or mention
Example:
a taboo subject
Synonyms:
forbidden; out; prohibited; proscribed; taboo; tabu; verboten
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
impermissible (not permitted)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Not worth considering as a possibility
Example:
a picnic is out because of the weather
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Not allowed to continue to bat or run
Example:
he fanned out
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
down (being put out by a strikeout)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Antonym:
safe (having reached a base without being put out)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
Example:
now the Democrats are out
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
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 2
Meaning:
Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
Example:
Someone outed a CIA agent
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "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 frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
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 "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
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Away from home
Example:
they went out last night
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Sense 2
Meaning:
From one's possession
Example:
gave away the tickets
Synonyms:
away; out
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Sense 3
Meaning:
Moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
Example:
the cat came out from under the bed
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the rosary round my neck, and said, "For your mother's sake," and went out of the room.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And I came out immediately, for I trembled at the idea of being dragged forth by the said Jack.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“My dear sir...” began Enfield, surprised out of himself.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She had left the instrument on the dancing being over, and he had sat down to try to make out an air which he wished to give the Miss Musgroves an idea of.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He sat slowly down, blew out his chest, passed his hand caressingly down his beard, and looked with drooping eyelids and supercilious eyes at the crowded hall before him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Refers to those amino acids that your body can create out of other chemicals found in your body.
(Non-Essential Amino Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A small mass of tissue within a gland or organ that carries out the specialized functions of the gland or organ.
(Nodular parenchyma, NCI Dictionary)
These activities include eating, dressing, getting into or out of a bed or chair, taking a bath or shower, and using the toilet.
(Activities of daily living, NCI Dictionary)
"I told you you'd lose 'm," she cried out. "He was worth more'n you was giving him."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
