EXIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exit mean? 

• EXIT (noun)
  The noun EXIT has 3 senses:

1. an opening that permits escape or release

2. euphemistic expressions for death

3. the act of going out

  Familiarity information: EXIT used as a noun is uncommon.

• EXIT (verb)
  The verb EXIT has 3 senses:

1. move out of or depart from

2. lose the lead

3. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

  Familiarity information: EXIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opening that permits escape or release

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exit; issue; outlet; way out

Context example:

the canyon had only one issue

Hypernyms ("exit" is a kind of...):

opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exit"):

outfall (the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water)

Derivation:

exit (move out of or depart from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Euphemistic expressions for death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release

Context example:

thousands mourned his passing

Hypernyms ("exit" is a kind of...):

death; decease; expiry (the event of dying or departure from life)

Domain usage:

euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)

Derivation:

exit (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of going out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("exit" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Derivation:

exit (move out of or depart from)

• EXIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exit    ... he / she / it exits   
Past simple: exited   
Past participle: exited   
-ing form: exiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move out of or depart from

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

exit; get out; go out; leave

Context example:

the fugitive has left the country

Hypernyms (to "exit" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Verb group:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

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

log off; log out (exit a computer)

undock (move out of a dock)

eject (leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule)

step out (go outside a room or building for a short period of time)

get off (leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.)

fall out (leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation)

get off; hop out (get out of quickly)

file out (march out, in a file)

pop out (exit briefly)

depart; go; go away (move away from a place into another direction)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

The men exit the boat

Antonym:

enter (to come or go into)

Derivation:

exit (the act of going out)

exit (an opening that permits escape or release)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose the lead

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "exit" is one way to...):

play (participate in games or sport)

Domain category:

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Context example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Hypernyms (to "exit" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

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

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

exit (euphemistic expressions for death)

 Context examples 

This protein is involved in mitotic exit and cytokinesis.

(Centrosomal Protein of 55 kDa, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in mitotic exit and cytokinesis.

(CEP55 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes centrosomal protein of 55 kDa, plays a role in mitotic exit and cytokinesis.

(CEP55 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Once Voyager 2 exits the heliosphere, it will become the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, to enter interstellar space.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

When taskmaster Saturn exits your eighth house of other people’s money on March 21 (the day after Mars will conjoin Jupiter), navigating your finances will become easier.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Arthur was leaving the room, and Martin Eden followed his exit with longing eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The device software failed to provide a safe exit from a repeating code segment.

(Device Non-Terminating Software Code Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Water permeates through the membrane to the core to dissolve the ingredient(s) which subsequently exit the membrane at a rate determined by their solubility and the thickness and porosity of the membrane.

(Diffusion Controlled Extended Release Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; affording free passage or access; accessible to all.

(Open, NCI Thesaurus)

A portion of the retina at which the axons of the ganglion cells exit the eyeball to form the optic nerve.

(Optic Disc, NCI Thesaurus)