COME OUT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does come out mean? 

• COME OUT (verb)
  The verb COME OUT has 11 senses:

1. appear or become visible; make a showing

2. be issued or published

3. come out of

4. result or end

5. come off

6. take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

7. make oneself visible; take action

8. bulge outward

9. to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality

10. be made known; be disclosed or revealed

11. break out

  Familiarity information: COME OUT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appear or become visible; make a showing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come on; come out; show up; surface; turn up

Context example:

I hope the list key is going to surface again

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be issued or published

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

appear; come out

Context example:

The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Come out of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue

Context example:

The words seemed to come out by themselves

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):

pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)

radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)

leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)

escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)

fall (come out; issue)

debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)

come out; fall out (come off)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Result or end

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

come out; turn out

Context example:

How will the game turn out?

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):

eventuate (come out in the end)

work out (happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Come off

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come out; fall out

Context example:

His hair and teeth fell out

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

come in; come out; place

Context example:

Jerry came in third in the Marathon

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

rank (take or have a position relative to others)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective

Sense 7

Meaning:

Make oneself visible; take action

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come forward; come out; come to the fore; step forward; step to the fore; step up

Context example:

Young people should step to the fore and help their peers

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 8

Meaning:

Bulge outward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bug out; bulge; bulge out; come out; pop; pop out; protrude; start

Context example:

His eyes popped

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 9

Meaning:

To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come out; come out of the closet; out

Context example:

This actor outed last year

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 10

Meaning:

Be made known; be disclosed or revealed

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come out; out

Context example:

The truth will out

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 11

Meaning:

Break out

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break through; come out; erupt; push through

Context example:

The tooth erupted and had to be extracted

Hypernyms (to "come out" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Verb group:

erupt (appear on the skin)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come out"):

dehisce (burst or split open)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

It would be a greater blow to him and to his country than to us if this letter were to come out.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he called through the door to his wife: “Wife, come out; here is a bird, come and look at it and hear how beautifully it sings.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In that case I shall come out to-morrow and talk it over with you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had an idea that anything accepted by a paper was published immediately, and as he had sent the manuscript in on Friday he expected it to come out on the following Sunday.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I felt her mittened hand come out to mine. And thus, without speech, we waited the end.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Your own little income,” he asked, “does it come out of the business?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ay, and He felt it too, for He had to come out of the mist to struggle with me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So far, still no sign of the Interphone results, so I suppose they will come out during the next legislature.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

In addition to being able to control exactly when and how much drug is delivered, what is special about this approach is that the drugs come out of the device without any solvent.

(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“All of the particles charged well, and about two to five percent didn’t come out of the tumbler,” said Mendez Harper.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)