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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Motivated by
Example:
idleness is the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work
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Context examples:
Your airways are tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs.
(Asthma, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
A protein that pumps substances out of cells.
(ATP-Binding Cassette, Sub-Family B, Member 1, NCI Dictionary)
To close her eyes in sleep that night, she felt must be entirely out of the question.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
One out of every 33 babies in the United States is born with a birth defect.
(Birth Defects, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The kidneys filter urea out of the blood and into the urine.
(Blood Urea, NCI Dictionary)
It usually ends soon after you are out of the situation that caused it.
(Anxiety, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
The team made nanoparticles out of the polymer polydiacetylene.
(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)
"It is going extremely fast and on such a trajectory that we can say with confidence that this object is on its way out of the solar system and not coming back."
(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)
When mammals exhale, the depleted air follows the same route out of the body, exhibiting a so-called tidal flow pattern.
(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)
I nearly fell out of mine; it was like a shelf.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
