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OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does out mean?
• OUT (noun)
The noun OUT has 1 sense:
1. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
Familiarity information: OUT used as a noun is very rare.
• OUT (adjective)
The adjective OUT has 10 senses:
1. not allowed to continue to bat or run
2. being out or having grown cold
3. not worth considering as a possibility
4. out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
5. excluded from use or mention
6. directed outward or serving to direct something outward
7. no longer fashionable
8. outside or external
9. outer or outlying
10. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
Familiarity information: OUT used as an adjective is familiar.
• OUT (verb)
The verb OUT has 3 senses:
1. to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
2. reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
3. be made known; be disclosed or revealed
Familiarity information: OUT used as a verb is uncommon.
• OUT (adverb)
The adverb OUT has 3 senses:
1. away from home
2. moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
3. from one's possession
Familiarity information: OUT used as an adverb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
you only get 3 outs per inning
Hypernyms ("out" is a kind of...):
failure (an act that fails)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "out"):
putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))
strikeout (an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not allowed to continue to bat or run
Context example:
he fanned out
Similar:
down (being put out by a strikeout)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Antonym:
safe (having reached a base without being put out)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being out or having grown cold
Synonyms:
extinct; out
Context example:
the fire is out
Similar:
dead (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not worth considering as a possibility
Context example:
a picnic is out because of the weather
Similar:
impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
Context example:
now the Democrats are out
Similar:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Excluded from use or mention
Synonyms:
forbidden; out; prohibited; proscribed; taboo; tabu; verboten
Context example:
a taboo subject
Similar:
impermissible (not permitted)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Directed outward or serving to direct something outward
Context example:
the out basket
Similar:
outgoing (leaving a place or a position)
Sense 7
Meaning:
No longer fashionable
Context example:
that style is out these days
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Outside or external
Context example:
the out surface of a ship's hull
Similar:
exterior (situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Outer or outlying
Context example:
the out islands
Similar:
outer (being on the outside or further from a center)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
Synonyms:
kayoed; knocked out; KO'd; out; stunned
Similar:
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
Sense 1
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 "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 2
Meaning:
Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
Someone outed a CIA agent
Hypernyms (to "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 frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
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 1
Meaning:
Away from home
Context example:
they went out last night
Sense 2
Meaning:
Moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
Context example:
the cat came out from under the bed
Sense 3
Meaning:
From one's possession
Synonyms:
away; out
Context example:
gave away the tickets
Context examples
Three dogs could not drag the sled so fast nor for so long hours as could six, and they were showing unmistakable signs of playing out.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The burn shows badly, and I can't take any out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I told him he was out walking.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient take liberties or touch or hug others in a way that is out of character for him/her?
(NPI - Take Liberties or Touch or Hug Others, NCI Thesaurus)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient wake up at night, dress, and plan to go out thinking that it is morning and time to start the day?
(NPI - Wake Up at Night, Dress, and Plan to Go Out, NCI Thesaurus)
Measuring the amount of nuclear matrix protein 22 in the urine may help diagnose cancer or find out how well treatment is working.
(Nuclear matrix protein 22, NCI Dictionary)
Not that Buck reasoned it out.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Another proteolytic step in Notch processing is carried out by TACE, also known as ADAM17.
(Notch Proteolysis and Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
As a result, none of the immunoglobulins appear out of the normal range.
(Non-Secretory Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)
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