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OUT TO
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fixed in your purpose
Example:
out to win every event
Synonyms:
bent; bent on; dead set; out to
Classified under:
Similar:
resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)
Context examples:
They come out to feed about every five to ten days.
(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)
Lord Roxton said nothing, but a brown hand was stretched out to me across the table.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He came running out to meet us with a face of horror.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We all moved out to the hall with one impulse, and Van Helsing, holding up his hand to us to keep silence, stepped to the door and opened it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I could hear them crying out to one another.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Water has turned out to be common in their atmospheres.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
EtpA, our target protein, turns out to be much more common than many of the vaccine targets that have been examined thus far.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
She cried out to Hans to stop.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“But I pray you, since you seem to know him, to point out to me the shortest path to my brother's house.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Grant's carriage and horses out to take her home, with which she was threatened.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
