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 2 senses:
1. away from home
2. from one's possession
Familiarity information: OUT used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OUT (noun)
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:
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)
• OUT (adjective)
Meaning:
Not allowed to continue to bat or run
Synonyms:
out; retired
Context examples:
he was tagged out at second on a close play / he fanned out
Similar:
down (being put out by a strikeout)
Domain category:
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)
Meaning:
Being out or having grown cold
Synonyms:
out; extinct
Context examples:
threw his extinct cigarette into the stream / 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)
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)
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)
Meaning:
Excluded from use or mention
Synonyms:
verboten; taboo; proscribed; prohibited; forbidden; tabu; out
Context examples:
forbidden fruit / in our house dancing and playing cards were out / a taboo subject
Similar:
impermissible (not permitted)
Meaning:
Directed outward or serving to direct something outward
Context examples:
the out doorway / the out basket
Similar:
outgoing (leaving a place or a position)
Meaning:
No longer fashionable
Context example:
that style is out these days
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
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)
Meaning:
Outer or outlying
Context example:
the out islands
Similar:
outer (being on the outside or further from a center)
Meaning:
Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
Synonyms:
kayoed; knocked out; KO'd; stunned; out
Similar:
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
• OUT (verb)
Meaning:
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
come out of the closet; out; come out
Context example:
This actor outed last year
Hypernyms (to "out" is one way to...):
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; impart; let on; let out; reveal; 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
Meaning:
Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context examples:
The gay actor was outed last week / Someone outed a CIA agent
Hypernyms (to "out" is one way to...):
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; impart; let on; let out; reveal; 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
Meaning:
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
out; come out
Context example:
The truth will out
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
• OUT (adverb)
Meaning:
Away from home
Context example:
they went out last night
Meaning:
From one's possession
Synonyms:
away; out
Context examples:
he gave out money to the poor / gave away the tickets
