Out

Adverb

 * 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.
 * 1) Away from; at a distance.
 * Keep out!
 * 1) Away from the inside or the centre.
 * The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
 * 1) Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
 * Switch the lights out.
 * Put the fire out.
 * 1) Used to intensify or emphasize.
 * The place was all decked out for the holidays.
 * 1)  Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

Synonyms

 * away

Antonyms

 * in

Derived terms

 * all out
 * bottle out
 * bowl out
 * camp out
 * chicken out
 * chill out
 * churn out
 * coffeed out
 * come out of the closet
 * come out
 * coming out of one's ears
 * crank out
 * down and out
 * eat one's heart out
 * figure out
 * flesh out
 * foul out
 * freeze out
 * geek out
 * get out
 * go in one ear and out the other
 * hang out
 * hold out
 * inside out
 * iron out
 * kick out
 * kit out
 * knock out
 * lock out
 * one eighty out
 * opt out
 * out of fashion
 * out of it


 * out of joint
 * out of luck
 * out of one's mind
 * out of place
 * out of pocket
 * out of proportion
 * out of sorts
 * out of stock
 * out of the blue
 * out of the ordinary
 * out of the question
 * out of the way
 * out of the woods
 * out of tune
 * out of wedlock
 * out of work
 * out of
 * out there
 * out to lunch
 * out to, out to get someone
 * out-of-bounds
 * out-of-print
 * pig out
 * put out feelers
 * put out
 * rub out
 * suss out
 * turn out
 * wash out
 * way out
 * weed out
 * wipe out
 * zonk out
 * zoom out

Preposition

 * 1) Away from the inside.
 * He threw it out the door.
 * 1)  Away from the center.

Synonyms

 * through
 * out of, out on

Antonyms

 * in
 * into

Noun

 * 1) A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
 * They wrote the law to give those organizations an out.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A card which can make a hand a winner.

Verb

 * 1)  To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
 * 2)  To reveal (a person) as having a certain secret.
 * 3) * 2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
 * 2) Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.

Synonyms

 * openly gay

Antonyms

 * in, safe
 * closeted

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From a combination of ut: and ute:. Cognate with Dutch uit:, German aus:, Swedish ut:, ute:, Danish ud:, ude:.

Adverb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:,  , draußen
 * Irish: amach, amuigh
 * Japanese:,  留主


 * Norwegian:, borte
 * Russian:,  ,   ,  вне дома


 * Finnish:, kaukana


 * Finnish:


 * German:,  , draußen
 * Irish: amach, amuigh


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ulkona

Preposition

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: ulkopuolella, ulos
 * German:


 * Irish: as
 * Russian: из


 * Finnish:


 * : jashtë
 * : (xārij)
 * : at, kanpo
 * : fora
 * : 外头 (wàitou)
 * : eksteren
 * : (khutz),  (bakhutz)
 * : kint (outside), kinn (outside), ki (motion)
 * : keluar
 * : (khutz),  (bakhutz)
 * : kint (outside), kinn (outside), ki (motion)
 * : keluar
 * : keluar


 * : 外へ (そとへ, soto e)
 * : 밖으로 (bakkeuro)
 * : ē, ex
 * : ut (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (the state of being out'')
 * : fora
 * : ord
 * : oot
 * : ven (direction, the transition from in to out), zunaj (the state of being out'')
 * : ut (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (the state of being out'')
 * : oot
 * : ven (direction, the transition from in to out), zunaj (the state of being out'')
 * : ut (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (the state of being out'')
 * : ut (direction, the transition from in to out), ute (the state of being out'')
 * : 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:
 * Slovak: usually expressed by the prefix vy- or sometimes z-
 * Swedish: sometimes expressed by the prefix ut-. In some cases considered somewhat formal.

Noun

 * Finnish: ulospääsytie


 * Japanese:, 仕舞


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Japanese: アウト


 * Korean:
 * Slovak: out (pronounced the English way)

Verb

 * French:
 * German:


 * Vietnamese: bật mí

Adjective

 * Czech:


 * Finnish:


 * Czech:


 * Finnish: avoimesti homoseksuaalinen


 * : ekstere (1)
 * : von, vonku

Related terms

 * all out
 * eat out
 * far out
 * go out
 * on the outs
 * out-
 * outen


 * out of
 * outer
 * outback
 * outer
 * outing
 * outness


 * outta
 * outward
 * outwards
 * outworn
 * put out
 * run out
 * way out

Adjective

 * 1) out of fashion

Etymology
From out:

Noun

 * 1) August

Etymology
From août: