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PUT OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does put out mean?
• PUT OUT (verb)
The verb PUT OUT has 10 senses:
1. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
2. put out considerable effort
3. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
5. put out, as of a candle or a light
7. cause to be out on a fielding play
9. prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
10. administer an anesthetic drug to
Familiarity information: PUT OUT used as a verb is familiar.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To cause inconvenience or discomfort to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
bother; discommode; disoblige; incommode; inconvenience; put out; trouble
Context example:
Sorry to trouble you, but...
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
distress; straiten (bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put out considerable effort
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
He put out the same for seven managers
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put out; smother
Context example:
smother fires
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
extinguish; snuff out (put an end to; kill)
"Put out" entails doing...:
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Thrust or extend out
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
exsert; extend; hold out; put out; stretch forth; stretch out
Context example:
the bee exserted its sting
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
gesticulate; gesture; motion (show, express or direct through movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
hyperextend (extend a joint beyond its normal range)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Put out, as of a candle or a light
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
douse; put out
Context example:
Douse the lights
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
blow out; extinguish; quench; snuff out (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Be sexually active
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
She is supposed to put out
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 7
Meaning:
Cause to be out on a fielding play
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put out; retire
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
diddle; fiddle; play; toy (manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination)
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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))
Sense 8
Meaning:
Retire
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Context example:
he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
play (participate in games or sport)
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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))
Sense 9
Meaning:
Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
bring out; issue; publish; put out; release
Context example:
publish a magazine or newspaper
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
edit (supervise the publication of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue put out the movie
Sense 10
Meaning:
Administer an anesthetic drug to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
anaesthetise; anaesthetize; anesthetise; anesthetize; put out; put under
Context example:
anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
dose; drug (administer a drug to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
etherise; etherize (anesthetize with ether)
cocainise; cocainize (anesthetize with cocaine)
chloroform (anesthetize with chloroform)
freeze (anesthetize by cold)
block (interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Context examples
She took a step backward, and put out her hands in an undecided frightened way, as if to keep me off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
People have been very kind to me, and whenever I see girls struggling along, as we used to do, I want to put out my hand and help them, as I was helped.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But first the Russians put out the eyes of Old Kinoos that he might never show the way again, and then they fought, where the waves beat white, with the people of Pastolik.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
As he passed he observed that his old housekeeper had put out her lamp and retired.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meantime he worked and worked away, till he made a hole large enough to put out his head.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
So he put out his tongue and panted and looked at Dorothy as if to ask what they should do next.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Then I put out my hand and was about to shake the man, who was still sleeping soundly, when a bell over his head rang loudly, and he woke with a start.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He put out his hand with a quick gesture, but not seeing where I stood, he did not touch me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then, with an angry gesture of his clenched hand, he closed the book, replaced it in the corner, and put out the light.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The national weather agency for France has put out orange alerts for flooding in large areas of France.
(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)
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