GIVE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give out mean? 

• GIVE OUT (verb)
  The verb GIVE OUT has 4 senses:

1. give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.

2. give to several people

3. prove insufficient

4. stop operating or functioning

  Familiarity information: GIVE OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

emit; give off; give out

Context example:

The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits

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

effuse (give out or emit (also metaphorically))

reflect; shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)

spark; sparkle (emit or produce sparks)

radiate (send out rays or waves)

scintillate (give off)

fume; smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)

reek (give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.)

shoot (emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully)

ray (emit as rays)

steam (emit steam)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give to several people

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

distribute; give out; hand out; pass out

Context example:

The teacher handed out the exams

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

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

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

apportion; deal; divvy up; portion out; share (give out as one's portion or share)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Prove insufficient

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fail; give out; run out

Context example:

The water supply for the town failed after a long drought

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Stop operating or functioning

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad

Context example:

her eyesight went after the accident

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

break (render inoperable or ineffective)

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

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

crash; go down (stop operating)

blow; blow out; burn out (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable)

misfire (fail to fire or detonate)

malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't give out

 Context examples 

Never give out personal information, such as your full name, address, phone number, or school name

(Internet Safety, NIH)

A person licensed to prepare and dispense (give out) prescription drugs and who has been taught how they work, how to use them, and their side effects.

(Pharmacist, NCI Dictionary)

You want to keep the keys yourself, and give out all the things, I suppose?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I agreed to do his washing and mending, but he forgets to give out his things and I forget to look them over, so he comes to a sad pass sometimes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A container designed to give out the contents in convenient or/and prescribed amounts.

(Dispenser, NCI Thesaurus)

If you work for others, your stellar work ethic will help you stand out among your colleagues, and when it comes time to give out promotions, you will make the shortlist of stars.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may tell Miss Smith that I forgot to make a memorandum of the darning needles, but she shall have some papers sent in next week; and she is not, on any account, to give out more than one at a time to each pupil: if they have more, they are apt to be careless and lose them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It also rules the information you give out by being a member of the media through writing a book, column, or screenplay, or by writing code, or being a host or guest on TV, as a few examples.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why,—any statement to give out.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)