Dictionary Definition
out adj
1 not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was
tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out" [syn:
out(p),
retired] [ant: safe(p)]
2 of a fire; being out or having grown cold;
"threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"
[syn: extinct, out(p)]
3 not worth considering as a possibility; "a
picnic is out because of the weather" [syn: out(p)]
4 out of power; especially having been
unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out" [syn:
out(a)]
5 excluded from use or mention; "forbidden
fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo
subject" [syn: forbidden, out(p), prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten]
6 directed outward or serving to direct something
outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket" [syn: out(a)]
7 no longer fashionable; "that style is out these
days"
8 outside or external; "the out surface of a
ship's hull" [syn: out(a)]
9 outer or outlying; "the out islands"
10 knocked unconscious by a heavy blow [syn:
knocked
out(p), kayoed,
KO'd, out(p), stunned] n : (baseball) a
failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball;
"you only get 3 outs per inning" adv
1 outside of an enclosed space; "she is out"
[ant: in]
2 outward from a reference point; "he kicked his
legs out"
3 away from home; "they went out last
night"
4 from one's possession; "he gave out money to
the poor"; "gave away the tickets" [syn: away]
Verb
1 to state openly and publicly one's
homosexuality; "This actor outed last year" [syn: come
out of the closet, come out]
2 reveal somebody else's homosexuality; "This
actor was outed last week"
3 be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The
truth will out" [syn: come out]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /aʊt/, /aUt/
- Rhymes with: -aʊt
Adverb
out- Away from home, not indoors.
- Let's eat out tonight
- Away from; at a distance.
- Keep out!
- Away from the inside
or the centre.
- The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
- Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
- Switch the lights out.
- Put the fire out.
- Switch the lights out.
- Used to intensify
or emphasize.
- The place was all decked out for the holidays.
Preposition
- Away from the inside.
- He threw it out the door.
- Away from the center.
Synonyms
- sense away from the inside through
- sense away from the center out of, out on
Antonyms
- sense away from the inside in
- sense away from the center into
Translations
- Albanian: jashtë
- Arabic: (xārij)
- Basque: at, kanpo
- Catalan: fora
- Chinese: 外头 (wàitou)
- Croatian: van
- Czech: ven
- Dutch: uit
- Esperanto: eksteren
- Finnish: ulkona, ulos
- French: hors
- German: heraus, hinaus
- Greek: έξω (1 ,3)
- Hebrew: חוץ (khutz), בחוץ (bakhutz)
- Hungarian: kint (outside), kinn (outside), ki (motion)
- Indonesian: keluar
- Irish: amach (direction, the transition from in to out), amuigh (the state of being out)
- Italian: fuori
- Japanese: 外へ (そとへ, soto e)
- Korean: 밖으로 (bakkeuro)
- Latin: ē, ex
- Norwegian: ut (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (the state of being out)
- Piemontese: fora
- Portuguese: fora, exterior, externo
- Romanian: afară
- Romansch: ord
- Russian: из (iz)
- Scots: oot
- Slovak: von
- Slovene: ven (direction, the transition from in to out), zunaj (the state of being out)
- Spanish: fuera
- Swedish: ut (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (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.
- Dutch: usually expressed by the prefix uit-
- Esperanto: usually expressed by the prefix el- and/or preposition el (1), ekstere (2)
- Finnish: ablative case (-lta, -ltä) or elative case (-sta, -stä)
- German: usually expressed by the prefix aus-
- Hungarian: usually expressed by the prefix ki-
- Latin: usually expressed by the prefix ex-
- Russian: вы-
- Slovak: usually expressed by the prefix vy- or sometimes z-
- Swedish: sometimes expressed by the prefix ut-. In some cases considered somewhat formal.
Noun
- A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
- They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
- A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play because the defending team threw the baseball past the batter three times in the strike zone, fielded a ball hit in the air, or fielded a ball hit to the ground and moved the ball to a defender blocking the runner's ability to move from base to base.
- A card which can make a hand a winner.
Translations
means of exit
- Finnish: ulospääsytie
removal from play in baseball
- Finnish: palo
- Slovak: out (pronounced the English way)
Verb
- To declare a person to be a homosexual, especially one who is reluctant for this information to be made public.
- To declare a personal secret belonging to another person.
Antonyms
Translations
- French: aouter (1)
Adjective
- Not at home.
- Leave a message for me if I'm out when you call.
- In the context of "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).
- Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.
Synonyms
- italbrac not at home: away
Antonyms
- italbrac not at home: in
- italbrac disqualified
from playing: in, not
out, safe
- closeted, not out
Translations
not at home
- Finnish: poissa, ulkona
cricket, baseball: disqualified from playing
further in an inning
- Finnish: palanut
openly acknowledging one's homosexuality
- Finnish: avoimesti homoseksuaalinen
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Out may refer to:
Titles
- Out (film), 1982 American movie directed by Eli Hollander, starring Peter Coyote
- Out (miniseries), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell
- Out (novel), 1997 novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino
Terms used in sports and recreation
- Out (baseball), play which retires the batter or a base runner
- Out (cricket), the loss of a wicket by a batsman; also known as "dismissal"
- Out (poker), unseen card which is expected to win a hand, if drawn
Media outlets and terms pertaining to (basically) homosexual culture
- Coming out or coming out of the closet, publicly revealing one's own homosexuality
- Outing, publicly revealing someone else's homosexuality
- Out (magazine), American publication aimed at a homosexual readership
- Out (website), community website for gay men and women around the world
Other terms
- Not in
- Out, in or entering a state of unconsciousness
- Out, 1960s jazz term referring to "the new thing". See Eric Dolphy
- The List: What's In and Out assigns social or cultural meaning to "out"—person, idea, or activity that is not popular or not recommended
disambig Out
out in Finnish: Out
out in German: Out
out in Japanese: アウト
out in Russian: Аут
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandoned, aberrant, abjured, abroad, absurd, adrift, alibi, all abroad, all off, all
wrong, aloud, amiss, antiquated, antique, apparent, apparently, appear, archaic, askew, asleep, astray, at a loss, at fault,
audibly, avenue, away, away from, awry, be revealed, become known,
beside the mark, blind,
blind drunk, blotto, blow
out, blowhole, break
forth, cataleptic,
catatonic, channel, choke, chute, clearly, cold, comatose, come out, come to
light, contrasting,
cop-out, corrupt,
cortical, counter, curious, damp, dated, dead, dead asleep, debouch, deceptive, deep asleep,
defective, delusive, deserted, deviant, deviational, deviative, different, disarranged, discontinued, disjointed, dislocated, disparate, displaced, dissimilar, distinctly, distorted, disused, divergent, diverse, done with, door, doped, dormant, douse, drugged, eccentric, egress, emunctory, epidermic, errant, erring, erroneous, escape, estuary, ex, excuse, exhaust, exit, exomorphic, exterior, exteriorly, external, externally, extinct, extinguish, extinguished, extrinsic, fallacious, false, fast asleep, faultful, faulty, flaked-out, flawed, floodgate, flume, forth, freaked out, freaky, fringe, from, funny, get out, gone out, gone-by,
half-conscious, hardly like, helpless, hence, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in the red, kooky, lame excuse, leak out,
likely story, loophole,
manifest itself, narcotized, nirvanic, nonuniform, not right, not
true, not worth saving, oblivious, obsolescent, obsolete, odd, oddball, off, off the track, off the wall,
offbeat, old, old-fashioned, on the outside,
on the shelf, on the surface, open, opening, openly, out cold, out loud, out
of, out of doors, out of gear, out of it, out of joint, out of
pocket, out of style, out of use, out-of-date, outcome, outdated, outer, outermost, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlandish, outlet, outlying, outmoded, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing,
outwardly, outwards, outworn, overcome, paralyzed, passe, passed out, passing
strange, past, past use,
peccant, peculiar, pensioned off,
peripheral, perverse, perverted, plainly, poor excuse, pore, port, public, publically, put out, quaint, queer, quench, quenched, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, roundabout, run out, sally
port, scarcely like, seeming, self-contradictory,
semiconscious,
senseless, show its
colors, show its face, singular, slack, sleeping, sluice, slumbering, smother, snuff, snuff out, snuffed, sound asleep, spaced
out, spiracle, spout, stamp out, stand revealed,
steal a march, stiff,
stifle, stoned, strange, straying, strung out, superannuate, superannuated, superficial, superficially, superseded, surface, tap, thence, therefrom, thereof, to all appearances, to
the bad, transpire,
unalike, unconscious, under the
table, unearthly,
unfactual, unhinged, unidentical, unjointed, unlike, unmatched, unorthodox, unprofitably, unproved, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, untrue, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir, weird, whence, wide, without, wondrous strange,
worn-out, wrong, zonked, zonked
out