out

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English

Alternative forms

• oute (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).

Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: out, IPA^(key): /aʊt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /æɔt/, /æʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ʌʊt/, [əu̯t]
  • (Southern Ontario) IPA^(key): [ɛʊ̯t]
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɘʉt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Adverb

out (not comparable)

1. Away from the inside or centre.

2. Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
   1. Specifically, away from home or one's usual place.

   2. Away from the doer, especially vigorously.

3. (informal) Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually after, the present or a stated event) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from")

4. Outside; not indoors.

5. (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.

6. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

7. To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
   • 1984, "All cried out", song by English singer-songwriter Alison Moyet:

     I'm all cried out / You took a whole lot of loving for a handful of nothing

   1. Shows that an activity has been completed to the point of exhaustion.

8. Used to intensify or emphasize.

9. Into a state of existence or visibility.
   1. (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.

10. (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).

Synonyms

• (not at home): away

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “not at home”): in

Derived terms

Translations

See also

There are numerous individual phrasal verbs, such as come out, go out, pull out, put out, take out, and so on.

Preposition

out

1. (informal, sometimes proscribed) From the inside to the outside of; out of. [from 14th c.]

Usage notes

• The use of out as a preposition, as in look out the window, is standard in American, Australian, and New Zealand English, and is common in speech and informal contexts in Britain, but is not accepted in formal British English.

Synonyms

• (away from the inside): through

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “away from the inside”): in

Derived terms

• out-of-bounds

Translations

Noun

out (plural outs)

1. A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.

   Hyponyms: cop-out, get-out

3. (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.
4. (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.
5. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
6. (dated) A trip out; an outing.
7. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.

   Antonym: in
8. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
9. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.

Descendants

• → Greek: άουτ (áout)
• → Japanese: アウト (auto)
• → Korean: 아웃 (aut)
• → Spanish: out

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To eject; to expel.
2. (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.

   Synonyms: come to light, crop out

   Coordinate term: crop up
4. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
   • 2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com.
5. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
7. (transitive, LGBTQ) To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
8. To kill; to snuff out.

Synonyms

• (reveal a secret): See also Thesaurus:divulge

Descendants

• → German: outen
• ⇒ Polish: autować

Translations

Adjective

out (not comparable)

1. Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside 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 fitted or inserted into something.

   4. (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, falling or passing or being situated beyond 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) No longer acceptable or 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.

   8. (of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.

   9. Unconscious.

   10. No longer popular or in fashion.

4. Open or public (about something).
   1. (LGBTQ) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
   2. (by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.
      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:out.
5. Freed from secrecy.

6. Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
   1. Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
   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.
7. Of the tide, at or near its lowest level.

9. Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.

   Synonym: all out (intensive but synonymous)

   Hyponym: fresh out (broadly synonymous)

10. (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.

Usage notes

• In cricket, the specific cause or rule under which a batsman is out appears after the word “out”, e.g., “out hit the ball twice”.
• In baseball, the cause is expressed as a verb with adverbial “out”, e.g., “he grounded out”.

Synonyms

• (no longer popular): démodé, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “disqualified from playing”): in, safe
• (antonym(s) of “openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+”): closeted, in the closet

Hyponyms

• (openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+): openly gay, etc.

Related terms

• (no longer in possession of): run out

Translations

Interjection

out

1. (procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
2. Get out; begone; away!

Coordinate terms

• over

Derived terms

• over and out

Derived terms

See also Category:English phrasal verbs with particle (out)

Related terms

• outen

Translations

References

• Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
• “out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ut/

Verb

out

1. second-person singular present indicative of bezañ

Bukiyip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əwutʰ]

Noun

out

1. rat

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Chinese

Alternative forms

• OUT

Etymology

From English outdated.

Pronunciation

Verb

out

1. (slang) to be outdated

   Antonym: in

Adjective

out

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) outdated

   Antonym: in

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Finnish

Etymology

< English out

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯t/, [ˈɑ̝u̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑut

Adverb

out (informal)

1. out (no longer popular or in fashion)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English out. Doublet of aus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊ̯t/, [ʔaʊ̯tʰ]
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯t

Adjective

out (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. (colloquial) out of fashion

   Synonyms: altmodisch, unmodern

   Antonyms: angesagt; (colloquial) in

2. (Austria, Switzerland, dated anywhere else, sports) ball crossing or landing outside of baseline or sideline (Association football: touchline) and thus becoming out of play

   Synonym: aus

   Der Ball war out. ― The ball was out.

Declension

Indeclinable, predicative-only.

Derived terms

Out

Further reading

• “out” in Duden online
• “out” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “out”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2024
  “out”, in PONS (in German), Stuttgart: PONS GmbH, 2001–2024

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French août (“August”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ut/

Noun

out

1. August

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French août.

Noun

out

1. August

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /out/

Adjective

out (comparative ouder, superlative outst)

1. old

   Antonym: jonc

Inflection

Derived terms

• ouden

Descendants

• Dutch: oud, (obsolete) oudt
  • Afrikaans: oud
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: hau
  • Jersey Dutch: āud, āut
  • Negerhollands: oud, ouw, houw, hou
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: ou, oud
  • West Flemish: elde
• Limburgish: aad

Further reading

• “out”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “out (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English out.

Noun

out m (plural outs)

1. (baseball) out

Yola

Adverb

out

1. Alternative form of udh

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867