Definition of "out"

out

/aʊt/

adverb
not comparable
1. Away from the inside, centre or other point of reference.
2. Away from home or one's usual place.
3. Outside; not indoors.
4. Away from; at a distance.
5. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
6. To the end; completely.
  Quotations
  Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalm 4:23
7. Used to intensify or emphasize.
8. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
9. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
  Quotations
  First ball hit me on the 'and, second 'ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, the fourth bowled me out.
  1876, The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32]., page 66
  Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted.
  1984, Official Baseball Guide, page 211
  So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands.
  2007, Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27
  The striking batter is bowled out when the wicket is broken with the bowler's delivery. A batter is bowled out whether or not the ball is touched or deflected into the stumps by the batter.
  2010, Mark Butcher, Paul Abraham, Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself, page A-65
preposition
1. From the inside to the outside of; out of.
  Quotations
  Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?
  c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
  Thy roselips and full blue eyes / Take the heart from out my breast.
  1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Adeline
  After she'd made her single cup of coffee she sat looking out the window into the slushy, halficy backyard and dialed Tony's number on Staten Island.
  2012, Thomas Gifford, Woman in the Window
noun
plural outs
1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
2. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
  Quotations
  The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.
  2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories
3. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
4. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
  Quotations
  As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand.
  2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57
  If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
  2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21
5. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
  Quotations
  Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know.
  1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853
6. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
  Quotations
  This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]
  1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World, page 192
7. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
8. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
verb
third-person singular simple present outs, present participle outing, simple past and past participle outed
1. (transitive) To eject; to expel.
  Quotations
  a king outed of his country
  1689, John Selden, Table Talk
  The French have been outed from their holds.
  1674, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in four bookes
  "I outed myself for life that night. I can put up a show fight and exhibition bout, but I'm done for the real thing."
  1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
2. (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
  Quotations
  Truth will out.
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
  In which Argument he whose courage can serve him to give the first onset, must look for two severall oppositions: the one from those who having sworn themselves to long custom and the letter of the Text, will not out of the road: the other from those whose grosse and vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimoniall purposes, and in the work of male and female think they have all.
  1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
  In those opening minutes City looked like a team that were not ready for Celtic's intensity. They looked a bit shocked to be involved in a fight. Class will out, though.
  2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, BBC Sport
3. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
  Quotations
  "Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy."
  2017, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3509: Sensitive Information
4. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
  Quotations
  [Tom] Holland himself admitted to GQ last year that the two hadn't really wanted to go public with their dating status. A video of them making out in a car outed their relationship.
  2022 December 16, Alyssa Bailey, “Zendaya Took Tom Holland to Visit Her Old School in Oakland”, in Elle‎
5. (transitive, LGBT) To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
  Quotations
  She throws her head back and lets out a warm laugh before she continues, “After that I thought, What am I so worried about? So I began to tell more people, and the more I outed myself, the easier it got.”
  2014 July 18, Jase Peeples, “Susan Blu: Transformation of an Animation Icon”, in The Advocate‎
  Trans Media Watch had recently spoken at the Leveson Inquiry about how the Sun and the Daily Mail routinely outed trans people, publishing old names and photos, for no reason other than because they could.
  2015, Juliet Jacques, Trans: A Memoir, Verso Books
  Always in my life I knew I was different. I also accepted that in a way, but I thought I could just live out those desires in private, for myself. I also have gone out en femme for a couple of years. […] I outed myself to my sister, which was super positive and is[sic] now my biggest supporter (love u sis!).
  2015 December 30, Kathy, “Kathy's Favorite Photo (of Kathy!)”, in Femulate‎
  The Parkses were strict and narrowminded, and not knowing what to do with their recently outed bisexual teenage daughter, their obvious solution was to cut her off from her friends and keep her from leaving the house.
  2016, Molly Booth, Saving Hamlet, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  As of 2018, I chair the workforce committee and lead on diversity and inclusion, including heading up a policy review on gender identity and trans inclusion, although that led me to be publicly outed as non-binary in the Sunday Times.
  2020, Jos Twist, Meg-John Barker, Kat Gupta, Benjamin Vincent, Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 116
6. To kill; to snuff out.
  Quotations
  "In my own case, I was beaten about the head by their wings, so we have had a remarkable exhibition of their various methods of offence." "It has been touch and go for our lives," said Lord John, gravely, "and I could not think of a more rotten sort of death than to be outed by such filthy vermin."
  1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
adjective
not comparable
1. Not inside a place one might otherwise be expected to be, especially a place one was formerly or is customarily inside:
  1. Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment.
  2. Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement.
  3. Not inside or within something.
  4. Not fitted or inserted into something.
  5. (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, falling or passing or being situated outside the bounds of the playing area.
2. Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
  1. (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
  2. (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.
  3. (of options) acceptable, permissible
  4. (of certain services, devices, or facilities) Not available; out of service.
  5. (of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.
  6. (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.
  7. (of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.
    Quotations
    No one is out screaming about Congress being out on a month long vacation.
    1990 August 20, PBS NewsHour (TV), DeFrank (actor)
    […] I had to be there after high school, I mean, after school was out, and after college was out, I had to go straight home.
    2012 October 23, Kids As Caregivers Face Special Challenges (radio), via National Public Radio
    It's a good thing that Congress is out for the month of August […]
    2013 August 4, Powerhouse Roundtable (TV), Jeff Zeleny (actor), via ABC
  8. No longer popular or in fashion.
3. Open or public (about something).
  1. (LGBT) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
    Quotations
    I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.
    2011, Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
    However, for a transgender man, while living stealth can be a feasible option for some, key people will need to know […] Not everyone has to be out, loud and proud or march down the streets holding trans flags […]
    2018, Matthew Waites, Supporting Young Transgender Men: A Guide for Professionals, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 40
  2. (by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.
    Quotations
    She was “out” as a survivor for the first time in her life. “I had friends who had known me many, many years who are totally astounded, shocked,” she said. “They could not believe that I was a Holocaust survivor. […] ”
    2014, Arlene Stein, Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness, Oxford University Press
4. Freed from secrecy.
5. Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
  1. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
    Quotations
    The game was commercially released on Xbox and PC in 2005 as an installment of the Close Combat series, which had been out since 1996.
    2009, Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture, page 96
  2. (of flowers) In bloom.
  3. (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
  4. (obsolete) Of a young lady: having entered society and available to be courted.
    Quotations
    "Pray, is she out, or is she not?—I am puzzled.—She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being out; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she is."
    1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 98
6. Of the tide, at or near its lowest level.
7. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more
8. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies; in error by a stated amount.
interjection
1. (procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
  Quotations
  [Galactic Federation official]: 'Does Samus suspect anything?' / Ship AI: 'No, I do not think so.' / [Galactic Federation official]: 'Good. Monitor her closely.' / Ship AI: 'Affirmative. Out.'
  2002 November 18, Nintendo R&D1, Metroid Fusion, Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, scene: dispatch
2. Get out; begone; away!
  Quotations
  Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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