Word Study
out
CIDE DICTIONARY
out, adv. [OE. out, ut, oute, ute, AS. , and , , fr. ; akin to D. uit, OS. , G. aus, OHG. , Icel. , Sw. ut, Dan. ud, Goth. ut, Skr. ud. About, But, prep. , Carouse, Utter, a. ].
- In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to
in orinto . The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (seeOut of , below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc. [1913 Webster]"He hath been out (of the country) nine years." [1913 Webster] - Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out. Opposite of
in . Shak. [1913 Webster]"Leaves are out and perfect in a month." [1913 Webster]"She has not been out [in general society] very long." [1913 Webster] - Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual or figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; a matter of public knowledge; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out. [1913 Webster]"Deceitful men shall not live out half their days." [1913 Webster]"When the butt is out, we will drink water." [1913 Webster]
- Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out; that style is on the way out. Dryden. [1913 Webster]"I have forgot my part, and I am out." [1913 Webster]
- Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest. [1913 Webster]"Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest." [1913 Webster]"Very seldom out, in these his guesses." [1913 Webster]
- Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores. [1913 Webster]" Out is largely used in composition as a prefix, with the same significations that it has as a separate word; as outbound, outbreak, outbuilding, outcome, outdo, outdoor, outfield. See also the first Note under
Over ,adv. " [1913 Webster]"In these lines after out may be understood, “of the harbor,” “from the shore,” “of sight,” or some similar phrase. The complete construction is seen in the saying: “Out of the frying pan into the fire.”" [1913 Webster] - Out of fashion; unfashionable; no longer in current vogue; unpopular. [PJC]
out, n.
- One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In. [1913 Webster]
- A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. [1913 Webster]
out, v. t.
- To cause to be out; to eject; to expel. [1913 Webster]"A king outed from his country." [1913 Webster]"The French have been outed of their holds." [1913 Webster]
- To come out with; to make known. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To give out; to dispose of; to sell. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
out, v. i.
To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public. Shak. [1913 Webster]
out, interj.
Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off. [1913 Webster]
"Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
out, adv., prep., n., adj., int., & v.
--adv.
1 away from or not in or at a place etc. (keep him out; get out of here; my son is out in Canada).
2 (forming part of phrasal verbs) a indicating dispersal away from a centre etc. (hire out; share out; board out). b indicating coming or bringing into the open for public attention etc. (call out; send out; shine out; stand out). c indicating a need for attentiveness (watch out; look out; listen out).
3 not in one's house, office, etc. (went out for a walk).
4 to or at an end; completely (tired out; die out; out of bananas; fight it out; typed it out).
5 (of a fire, candle, etc.) not burning.
6 in error (was 3% out in my calculations).
7 colloq. unconscious (she was out for five minutes).
8 a (of a tooth) extracted. b (of a joint, bone, etc.) dislocated (put his shoulder out).
9 (of a party, politician, etc.) not in office.
10 (of a jury) considering its verdict in secrecy.
11 (of workers) on strike.
12 (of a secret) revealed.
13 (of a flower) blooming, open.
14 (of a book) published.
15 (of a star) visible after dark.
16 unfashionable (turn-ups are out).
17 (of a batsman, batter, etc.) no longer taking part as such, having been caught, stumped, etc.
18 not worth considering; rejected (that idea is out).
19 colloq. (prec. by superl.) known to exist (the best game out).
20 (of a stain, mark, etc.) not visible, removed (painted out the sign).
21 (of time) not spent working (took five minutes out).
22 (of a rash, bruise, etc.) visible.
23 (of the tide) at the lowest point.
24 Boxing unable to rise from the floor (out for the count).
25 archaic (of a young upper-class woman) introduced into society.
26 (in a radio conversation etc.) transmission ends (over and out).
--prep.
1 out of (looked out the window).
2 archaic outside; beyond the limits of.
--n.
1 colloq. a way of escape; an excuse.
2 (the outs) the political party out of office.
--adj.
1 (of a match) played away.
2 (of an island) away from the mainland.
--int. a peremptory dismissal, reproach, etc. (out, you scoundrel!).
--v.
1 tr. a put out. b colloq. eject forcibly.
2 intr. come or go out; emerge (murder will out).
3 tr. Boxing knock out.
--adv.
1 away from or not in or at a place etc. (keep him out; get out of here; my son is out in Canada).
2 (forming part of phrasal verbs) a indicating dispersal away from a centre etc. (hire out; share out; board out). b indicating coming or bringing into the open for public attention etc. (call out; send out; shine out; stand out). c indicating a need for attentiveness (watch out; look out; listen out).
3 not in one's house, office, etc. (went out for a walk).
4 to or at an end; completely (tired out; die out; out of bananas; fight it out; typed it out).
5 (of a fire, candle, etc.) not burning.
6 in error (was 3% out in my calculations).
7 colloq. unconscious (she was out for five minutes).
8 a (of a tooth) extracted. b (of a joint, bone, etc.) dislocated (put his shoulder out).
9 (of a party, politician, etc.) not in office.
10 (of a jury) considering its verdict in secrecy.
11 (of workers) on strike.
12 (of a secret) revealed.
13 (of a flower) blooming, open.
14 (of a book) published.
15 (of a star) visible after dark.
16 unfashionable (turn-ups are out).
17 (of a batsman, batter, etc.) no longer taking part as such, having been caught, stumped, etc.
18 not worth considering; rejected (that idea is out).
19 colloq. (prec. by superl.) known to exist (the best game out).
20 (of a stain, mark, etc.) not visible, removed (painted out the sign).
21 (of time) not spent working (took five minutes out).
22 (of a rash, bruise, etc.) visible.
23 (of the tide) at the lowest point.
24 Boxing unable to rise from the floor (out for the count).
25 archaic (of a young upper-class woman) introduced into society.
26 (in a radio conversation etc.) transmission ends (over and out).
--prep.
1 out of (looked out the window).
2 archaic outside; beyond the limits of.
--n.
1 colloq. a way of escape; an excuse.
2 (the outs) the political party out of office.
--adj.
1 (of a match) played away.
2 (of an island) away from the mainland.
--int. a peremptory dismissal, reproach, etc. (out, you scoundrel!).
--v.
1 tr. a put out. b colloq. eject forcibly.
2 intr. come or go out; emerge (murder will out).
3 tr. Boxing knock out.
Idiom
at outs at variance or enmity. not out Cricket (of a side or a batsman) not having been caught, bowled, etc. out and about (of a person, esp. after an illness) engaging in normal activity. out and away by far. out and out
1 thorough; surpassing.
2 thoroughly; surpassingly. out at elbows see ELBOW. out for having one's interest or effort directed to; intent on.
out of
1 from within (came out of the house).
2 not within (I was never out of England).
3 from among (nine people out of ten; must choose out of these).
4 beyond the range of (is out of reach).
5 without or so as to be without (was swindled out of his money; out of breath; out of sugar).
6 from (get money out of him).
7 owing to; because of (asked out of curiosity).
8 by the use of (material) (what did you make it out of?).
9 at a specified distance from (a town, port, etc.) (seven miles out of Liverpool).
10 beyond (something out of the ordinary).
11 Racing (of an animal, esp. a horse) born of. out of bounds see BOUND(2). out of date see DATE(1). out of doors see DOOR. out of drawing see DRAWING. out of hand see HAND. out of it not included; forlorn. out of order see ORDER. out of pocket see POCKET. out of the question see QUESTION. out of sorts see SORT. out of temper see TEMPER. out of this world see WORLD. out of the way see WAY. out to keenly striving to do. out to lunch colloq. crazy, mad. out with an exhortation to expel or dismiss (an unwanted person). out with it say what you are thinking.
1 thorough; surpassing.
2 thoroughly; surpassingly. out at elbows see ELBOW. out for having one's interest or effort directed to; intent on.
out of
1 from within (came out of the house).
2 not within (I was never out of England).
3 from among (nine people out of ten; must choose out of these).
4 beyond the range of (is out of reach).
5 without or so as to be without (was swindled out of his money; out of breath; out of sugar).
6 from (get money out of him).
7 owing to; because of (asked out of curiosity).
8 by the use of (material) (what did you make it out of?).
9 at a specified distance from (a town, port, etc.) (seven miles out of Liverpool).
10 beyond (something out of the ordinary).
11 Racing (of an animal, esp. a horse) born of. out of bounds see BOUND(2). out of date see DATE(1). out of doors see DOOR. out of drawing see DRAWING. out of hand see HAND. out of it not included; forlorn. out of order see ORDER. out of pocket see POCKET. out of the question see QUESTION. out of sorts see SORT. out of temper see TEMPER. out of this world see WORLD. out of the way see WAY. out to keenly striving to do. out to lunch colloq. crazy, mad. out with an exhortation to expel or dismiss (an unwanted person). out with it say what you are thinking.
Etymology
OE ut, OHG uz, rel. to Skr. ud-
THESAURUS
out
abandoned, aberrant, abjured, abroad, absurd, adrift, alibi, all abroad, all off, all wrong, aloud, amiss, antiquated, antique, apparent, apparently, appear, archaic, askew, asleep, astray, at a loss, at fault, audibly, avenue, away, away from, awry, be revealed, become known, beside the mark, blind, blind drunk, blotto, blow out, blowhole, break forth, cataleptic, catatonic, channel, choke, chute, clearly, cold, comatose, come out, come to light, contrasting, cop-out, corrupt, cortical, counter, curious, damp, dated, dead, dead asleep, debouch, deceptive, deep asleep, defective, delusive, deserted, deviant, deviational, deviative, different, disarranged, discontinued, disjointed, dislocated, disparate, displaced, dissimilar, distinctly, distorted, disused, divergent, diverse, done with, door, doped, dormant, douse, drugged, eccentric, egress, emunctory, epidermic, errant, erring, erroneous, escape, estuary, ex, excuse, exhaust, exit, exomorphic, exterior, exteriorly, external, externally, extinct, extinguish, extinguished, extrinsic, fallacious, false, fast asleep, faultful, faulty, flaked-out, flawed, floodgate, flume, forth, freaked out, freaky, fringe, from, funny, get out, gone out, gone-by, half-conscious, hardly like, helpless, hence, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in the red, kooky, lame excuse, leak out, likely story, loophole, manifest itself, narcotized, nirvanic, nonuniform, not right, not true, not worth saving, oblivious, obsolescent, obsolete, odd, oddball, off, off the track, off the wall, offbeat, old, old-fashioned, on the outside, on the shelf, on the surface, open, opening, openly, out cold, out loud, out of, out of doors, out of gear, out of it, out of joint, out of pocket, out of style, out of use, out-of-date, outcome, outdated, outer, outermost, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlandish, outlet, outlying, outmoded, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, outwardly, outwards, outworn, overcome, paralyzed, passe, passed out, passing strange, past, past use, peccant, peculiar, pensioned off, peripheral, perverse, perverted, plainly, poor excuse, pore, port, public, publically, put out, quaint, queer, quench, quenched, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, roundabout, run out, sally port, scarcely like, seeming, self-contradictory, semiconscious, senseless, show its colors, show its face, singular, slack, sleeping, sluice, slumbering, smother, snuff, snuff out, snuffed, sound asleep, spaced out, spiracle, spout, stamp out, stand revealed, steal a march, stiff, stifle, stoned, strange, straying, strung out, superannuate, superannuated, superficial, superficially, superseded, surface, tap, thence, therefrom, thereof, to all appearances, to the bad, transpire, unalike, unconscious, under the table, unearthly, unfactual, unhinged, unidentical, unjointed, unlike, unmatched, unorthodox, unprofitably, unproved, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, untrue, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir, weird, whence, wide, without, wondrous strange, worn-out, wrong, zonked, zonked outROGET THESAURUS
out
bisection
VB bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize, go halves, divide with, separate, fork, bifurcate, branch off, out, ramify.Exteriority
N exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.Error
N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.For further exploring for "out" in Webster Dictionary Online
