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Etymology

From a combination of Old English ūt and ūte. Cognate with Dutch uit, German aus, Swedish ut, ute, Danish ud, ude.

Pronunciation

Adverb

out (comparative more out, superlative most out)

  1. Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
    Let's eat out tonight
    Leave a message with my secretary if I'm out when you call.
  2. Away from; at a distance.
    Keep out!
  3. Away from the inside or the centre.
    The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
  4. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
    Switch the lights out.
    Put the fire out.
  5. Used to intensify or emphasize.
    The place was all decked out for the holidays.
  6. (cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

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Derived terms

terms derived from out

Preposition

out

  1. Away from the inside.
    He threw it out the door.
  2. (informal) Away from the center.

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Translations

away from the inside
  • Irish: as (ga)
  • Russian: из (ru) (iz)
  • Spanish: fuera (es)
away from the center
  • Finnish: (elative case)
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  • Albanian: jashtë
  • Arabic: خارج (xārij)
  • Basque: at, kanpo
  • Catalan: fora
  • Chinese: 外头 (wàitou)
  • Serbo-Croatian: van (hr)
  • Czech: ven (cs)
  • Dutch: uit (nl)
  • Esperanto: eksteren
  • French: hors (fr)
  • Hebrew: חוץ (he) (khutz), בחוץ (he) (bakhutz)
  • Hungarian: kint (outside), kinn (outside), ki (motion)
  • Indonesian: ke luar
  • Italian: fuori (it)
  • Japanese: 外へ (そとへ, soto e)
  • Korean: 밖으로 (bakkeuro)
  • Latin: ē, ex
  • Norwegian: ut (no) (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (no) (the state of being out)
  • Piedmontese: fora
  • Portuguese: fora (pt), exterior (pt), externo (pt)
  • Romanian: afară (ro)
  • Romansch: ord
  • Scots: oot
  • Slovak: von (sk)
  • Slovene: ven (direction, the transition from in to out), zunaj (the state of being out)
  • Spanish: fuera (es)
  • Swedish: ut (sv) (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (sv) (the state of being out)

In many languages there is no direct translation, as the idea expressed by the English adverb is expressed by a prefix in many languages. German is somewhat half way in-between as it uses a prefix in the infinitive of its verbs, but often, though not always, separates the prefix into the same form as the English adverb when conjugating them.

Noun

out (plural outs)

  1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
    They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
  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.
  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 hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit the batter's wicket with the ball.
  4. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.

Translations

means of exit
  • Dutch: buiten (nl)
  • Finnish: ulospääsytie (fi)
removal from play in baseball
  • Finnish: palo (fi)
  • French: retrait (fr) m.
  • Japanese: アウト (ja) (あうと, auto)
  • Korean: 아웃 (ko) (aut)
  • Russian: аут (ru) (áut) m., удаление (ru) (udalénije) n.
  • Slovak: out (pronounced the English way)

Verb

out (third-person singular simple present outs, present participle outing, simple past and past participle outed)

  1. (transitive) To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
  2. (transitive) To reveal (a person) as having a certain secret.

Translations

Translations
  • Vietnamese: bật mí (vi)

Adjective

out (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted.
  2. (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
  3. Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.

Usage notes

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Antonyms

Translations

cricket, baseball: disqualified from playing further in an inning
openly acknowledging one's homosexuality
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German

Etymology

From English out

Pronunciation

Adjective

out (not comparable)

  1. out of fashion

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French août (“August”)

Noun

out

  1. August

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *alt, ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz.

Adjective

out (stem oud-, comparative ouder, superlative outst)

  1. old

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