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Definition: Out |
OutAdjective1. Not in; or in or into the open; "has been out all day"; "out to lunch"; "the sun is out". 2. (baseball) not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out". 3. Of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "faint smoke from the extinguished candle"; "the fire is out"; "the quenched flames". 4. Not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather". 5. Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out". 6. Excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject". 7. Directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket". 8. No longer fashionable; "that style is out these days". 9. Outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull". 10. : outer or outlying; "the out islands". 11. : knocked unconscious by a heavy blow. Adverb1. Outside of an enclosed space; "she is out". 2. Outward from a reference point; "he kicked his legs out". 3. Away from home; "they went out last night". 4. From one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets". Noun1. A failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning". Verb1. To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year". 2. Reveal somebody else's homosexuality; "This actor was outed last week". 3. Be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "out" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Out \Out\, adverb [Old English out, ut, oute, ute, Anglo-Saxon [=u]t, and [=u]te, [=u]tan, from [=u]t; akin to Dutch uit, Old Saxon [=u]t, German aus, Old High German [=u]z, Icelandic [=u]t, Swedish ut, Danish ud, Gothic ut, Sanskrit ud. Compare to About, But, prep., Carouse, Utter, adjective]. (references) |
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Satire | OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Out Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. One of Ray's proverbs meaning from good to less good. "Ab equis ad asmos When the king says to Hamlet "How is it that the clouds still hang on you?" the prince answers, "No, my lord, I am too much i' the sun," meaning, "I have lost God's blessing, for too much of the sun"- i.e. this far inferior state. "Thon out of heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun." Shakespeare : King Lear, ii. 2. To have it out. To contest either physically or verbally with another to the utmost of one's ability; as, "I mean to have it out with him one of these days;" "I had it out with him"- i.e. "I spoke my mind freely and without reserve." The idea is that of letting loose pent-up disapprobation. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | In aviation radio phraseology, an expression indicating that the conversation is ended and that no further reply is expected. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Allie. Definition: Away from; forth from; or remove from a place, position, or situation. Context: When you see something that you really don't like or you think it's old. Social Source: "The Girls". Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Out has several meanings:
- Out has many dictionary definitions, such as away from inside or away from the middle. See wiktionary:out.
- A person is said to be out after having revealed their homosexuality, bisexuality, or transgenderism. See The Closet.
- Out is a gay-interest fashion magazine. See Out Magazine.
- Out can also mean in or entering a state of unconsciousness.
- In baseball, an out is recorded on a play which retires the batter or a base runner. See out (baseball).
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In a poker game with more than one betting round, before the final card is dealt, any unseen card that will improve your hand to one that is likely to win is called an out. Knowing the number of outs you have is an important part of poker strategy. For example in draw poker, if you draw one card holding four diamonds, hoping for a flush, you have nine outs (there are 13 diamonds in the deck, and you've seen four of them). If you have two small pair, and you believe that it will be necessary for you to make a full house to win, then you have four outs--the two remaining cards of each rank that you hold.It is important to note that the hidden cards of one's opponents may affect your calculation of outs. For example, assume that a Texas hold 'em board looks like this after the third round: 5♠ K♦ 7♦ J♠, and that you are holding A♦ 10♦. Your current hand is nothing but A-high no pair, which is not likely to win unimproved, so you have a drawing hand. How many outs you have, however, depends on what your opponent holds. You have a minimum of nine outs for certain, called nut outs, because they will make your hand the best possible: those are the 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and Q of diamonds (which will give you an ace-flush with no possible better hand on the board) and the Q of clubs and hearts, which will give you an ace-high straight with no higher hand possible. The 5♦ and J♦ will also make you an ace-high flush, so those are possible outs since they give you a hand that is likely to win, but they also make it possible for another player to have a full house (if he has something like K♠ K♣, for example). Likewise, the Q♠ will fill your ace-high straight, but will also make it possible for some opponent to have a spade flush. It is possible that your opponent could have as little as something like 7♣ 9♣ (making a pair of sevens); in this case even catching any of the three remaining aces or tens will give you a pair to beat his, so those are even more potential outs. So you have nine guaranteed outs, and possibly as many as 18, depending on what you expect your opponent to have.
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Popular homosexuality orientated magazine.
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gay, homosexual
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The slang term "being in the closet" has been used to describe keeping secret one's sexual behaviors or orientation disapproved of by society; typically homosexuality, bisexuality, or transgenderism, but also including various paraphilias.A "closeted" person originally referred only to lesbians, gays and bisexuals who kept their sexual orientation secret. The reason is usually that the person does not want to face the environment's homophobia. In many places in the world, coming out of the closet means losing your job, home, family, friends, religious and political memberships. There is often also a real risk of being the victim of violent hate crime.
The term is derived from the metaphor of the "skeleton in the closet": a thing a person hides that they don't want to be found, but which is inevitably stumbled across. This often refers to a person's past love affairs and the like. In a homophobic society, homosexuality is understandably such a skeleton, and is therefore closeted. Use of the closet without skeletal embellishment is almost universally reserved for the gay community.
Coming out of the closet describes voluntarily making public one's sexual behaviors or orientation, "being out" to not concealing one's sexual behaviors or orientation, and "outing" for making public the sexual behaviors or orientation of another who would prefer to keep this information secret.
Many people who identify themselves as homosexual, or who might prefer homosexual activities or relationships, have engaged in heterosexual activities or even have long-term heterosexual relationships. Such "heterosexual" behavior by people who would otherwise be homosexual has often been part of being "in the closet", and may be becoming less common as acceptance of homosexuality increases.
Coming out has an etiquette of its own, developed through the experiences of people who did it in a way they later decided was inappropriate and more stressful than it had to be.
Coming out is often a gradual process. It is common to come out first to a trusted friend or family member, and wait to come out to others. Some people are "out" at work but not to their families, or vice-versa. A person might say "I'm out at work, but I'm not out to my family".
Not surprisingly, some studies have found that the degree to which a person can be "out" in a large number of life situations seems to strongly correlate with lack of stress and freedom from neurosis.
Today more homosexuals than ever are "out", and their general belief is that being in the closet is unhealthy for the individual. A common saying is, "Closets are for clothes". One major gay magazine is titled Out Magazine.
See also: LGB community, Famous gay lesbian or bisexual people, Homophobia
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The term closet has also been used, seriously or not, to refer to other personal preferences; e.g. "John Doe is a closet postmodernist, communist, liberal, etc."; likewise for to come out of the closet, e.g. "John came out of the closet about his gambling addiction"; "Janice came out of the closet when she told everyone she secretly loved chocolate."
One use of this is in a concept called "The Broom Closet," that refers to people who hide the fact that they are followers of the Wiccan religion for fear of social rejection and reprisals.
Activists for Wicca and general religious freedom and tolerance stress that the same problem of the regular Closet concept also applies to the variant and encourage people to come out for the same reasons.
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Synonyms: OutSynonyms: extinct (adj), extinguished (adj), forbidden (adj), kayoed (adj), knocked out(p) (adj), out(a) (adj), out(p) (adj), prohibited (adj), proscribed (adj), quenched (adj), retired (adj), stunned (adj), taboo (adj), tabu (adj), verboten (adj), away (adv), come out (v), come out of the closet (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: in(p) (adj), safe(p) (adj), in (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
bisection | Separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Out |
| Non-English Usage: "Out" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (out), Haitian Creole (August), Spanish (out). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Did not just take out that chair (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) They're out there, where you've been working (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Somebody should just put him out of his misery (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) So, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) You're 5 foot and nothin', a hundred and nothin', not one ounce of athletic ability, yet you hung in with the best college football team in the land and are gonna walk out of here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame (Rudy; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo) | |
Lyrics | Out of nothing at all. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) Out for summer (School's Out; performing artist: Alice Cooper) Well I left my happy home to see what I could find out (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens) See they can trigga me, but they'll neva figure me out (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem) I would swallow my doubt turn it inside out find nothing but faith in nothing (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6) | |
Clever | As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. (references; author: Mark Twain) If the people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. (references; author: Yogi Berra) If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. (references; author: Woody Allen) A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. (references; author: Russian Proverb) Stud Tires Out (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (1994) Out for a Kill (2003) Odd Man Out (1999) Out There (2003) One Way Out (2002) | |
Song Titles | Hunting Tigers Out In "Indiah" (performing artist: The Bonzo Dog Band) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE (performing artist: Four Tops ) Reach Out of The Darkness (performing artist: Friend and Lover) School Is Out (performing artist: Gary "U.S." Bonds) Found Out About You (performing artist: Gin Blossoms) | |
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 | This act signed December 23, 1971, amended the Public Health Service Act. It strengthened the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health so that they could more effectively carry out the national effort against cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A laminar airflow unit is a protective covering for people with suppressed immune systems. In this germ-free environment the air flows out one way and the germs cannot re-enter the system. Shown are a nurse and a child inside the protective unit. The nurse is reading to the child. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Sanitarians carrying out injury control activities. Credit: CDC. |  | Anopheles franciscanus does not seek out human hosts aggressively, therefore, this species is not an efficient vector for malaria transmission. Credit: CDC. |
 | White Floats out the Open Hatch. Credit: NASA. |  | Ham Checks Out Equipment. Credit: NASA. |
 | Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's ... Credit: NASA. |  | It's a very big universe out there, and an astronomer's work is never done when it comes to ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Viking 2 image of the region around the "Inca City". On a laterorbit (421), Viking 2 again imaged the region. This time, the Inca City isclearly visible. This image was taken through the red filter. It has beenenhanced to bring out the details (noise reduced and contrast enhanced). Theresolution of this image is 0.146 km/pixel and is centered at -81.82 degreeslatitude and 59.59 degrees longitude. Reproduced from volume 59 of theMission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. Credit: NASA. |  | Akpatok Island lies in Ungava Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Accessible only by air, Akpatok Island rises out of the water as sheer cliffs that soar 500 to 800 feet (150 to 243km) above the sea surface. The island is an important sanctuary for cliff-nesting seabirds. Numerous ice floes around the island attract walrus and whales, making Akpatok a traditional hunting ground for native Inuit people. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Wite out" by Jennifer Lin Commentary: "Was taken on a whim." | "Passed Out On Couch" by J Cash Commentary: "Sleeping at the Cottage, (It was only 8pm and the drinking got to him)." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Slot machine wheels stopping then machine paying out with electronic tones and coins dropping. | | Bingo caller calling out bingo numbers and letters, a male participant says "bingo". |
| Cash counter counting out bills and finishing with a high-pitched beep. | | Pulling out a seat belt in the car and buckling it. |
| Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. | | Shaking dice in a cup and rolling them out on a game board. |
| Air hissing; losing air pressure; the sound of an aerosol can letting out its contents. | | A big bottle or vase dropping and being broken letting its contents spill out randomly. |
| Rolling out dice onto a game board. | | Slurping water out of a drinking fountain. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Success is failure turned inside out. |
Jean De La Bruyere | Out of difficulties grow miracles. |
John Heywood | To tell tales out of school. |
| Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. | |
Marie de Rabutin-chantal | Racine will go out of style like coffee. |
Miguel de Cervantes | TIme out of mind. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | I made all my generals out of mud. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Apology is only egotism wrong side out. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Our strength grows out of our weakness. |
William Shakespeare | He hath eaten me out of house and home. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | And if any one of the five and twenty barons shall have died or departed from the land, or be incapacitated in any other manner which would prevent the foresaid provisions being carried out, those of the said twenty five barons who are left shall choose another in his place according to their own judgment, and he shall be sworn in the same way as the others. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | People are not so easily got out of their old forms, as some are apt to suggest. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | If the legislature should change that rule, and declare one witness, or a confession out of court, sufficient for conviction, must the constitutional principle yield to the legislative act? (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Here and there the contest breaks out into riots. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Belgian Government shall, for this purpose, have the right to carry out on the ground all necessary surveys. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It is because I am sure that our fortunes are still in our own hands and that we hold the power to save the future, that I feel the duty to speak out now that I have the occasion and the opportunity to do so. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Let us never negotiate out of fear. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Children, I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs! |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Every thing turns out for his good |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | She would have done the same for Bruno, but he hastily drew back out of reach |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Pearl was decked out with airy gaiety |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They had tried to pull him out, but in vain |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It would be better to be in the studyhall than out there in the cold |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Never try to out stubborn a cat. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | When he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They dry out the mouth. (references) | |
Caffeine can dry out the mouth. (references) | ||
Lavage - To wash out a body organ. (references) | ||
Business | No amputations were known to have been carried out. (references) | |
The range of services provided at LCP are set out below. (references) | ||
There has been a steady growth in travel out of this country. (references) | ||
Children | Congo | Widespread poverty puts basic education out of the reach of many families. (references) |
Taiwan | During 2000 more than 8,000 children who had dropped out of school were helped to return to school. (references) | |
Guinea | Girls often are taken out of school and sent to work to help pay for their brothers' educational expenses. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Panama | He remains out of the country. (references) |
Vietnam | A fight broke out between members of this group and others at the site. (references) | |
Haiti | He sent his family out of the country because of fears for their safety. (references) | |
Discrimination | Ecuador | Congress has been only partially successful in carrying out this mandate. (references) |
Argentina | INADI investigates violations of the antidiscrimination law and carries out educational programs to promote social and cultural pluralism and combat discriminatory attitudes. (references) | |
Hong Kong | By year's end, nine cases had been brought to court under the Sex Discrimination Ordinance, four of which had been pending resolution, and another three cases were settled out of court. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | Several facts stand out. (references) |
Nigeria | This list may be phased out completely. (references) | |
Albania | Most transactions are carried out in cash. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | Arrests are carried out openly. (references) |
Georgia | In January 11 out of 173 judges passed. (references) | |
Pakistan | The case later was settled out of court. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | Two NGOs criticized the fact that only 5 out of 17 council members are Orang Asli. (references) |
Venezuela | In late 1999, in an out-of-court settlement the Government pledged, among other commitments, to provide better security and to carry out health care projects in the area. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The RAAN and the RAAS, which were created in 1987 out of the former department of Zelaya and which border the Caribbean Sea, constitute 47 percent of the national territory. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | There is 1 Roma lawyer out of a total of 11 lawyers in the Ombudsman's office. (references) |
Guinea | Mutual suspicion affects relations across ethnic lines, in and out of the Government. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Critics also pointed out that only half of the total sum represented newly allocated money. (references) | |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | Most copyright cases have been settled out of court. (references) |
Sudan | These sentences had not been carried out by year's end. (references) | |
TAIWAN | Trade-related funds flow freely into and out of Taiwan. (references) | |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | The MDC captured 57 out of the 120 popularly elected seats. (references) |
Swaziland | Election procedures generally were carried out in an orderly fashion. (references) | |
Somalia | In the TNA, women were allocated 25 seats out of a total of 245 seats. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | Kyat and FECs cannot be taken out of Burma. (references) |
Australia | An IRA is presently (6/99) being carried out. (references) | |
Russia | By now the procedures are more or less worked out. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | The undertow has swept good swimmers out to sea. (references) |
Burma | No kyat may be brought into or taken out of Burma. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | If you are going out at night, take a metered taxi. (references) | |
Women | Swaziland | Children born out of wedlock are viewed as belonging to the mother. (references) |
Guatemala | More than 50 percent of urban girls and 81 percent of rural girls drop out of school. (references) | |
Congo | Women sometimes are forced into prostitution by their families out of economic necessity. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | Many women who are not bailed out are not repatriated. (references) |
Ethiopia | These apply equally to an employer's right to lock out workers. (references) | |
Niger | Some children were kept out of school to guide a blind relative on begging rounds. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | They're six months down the road and realize, wow, what a mistake we've made. How are we going to get out of this one. In walks Mr. Plant. |
Dan Rather | We are resolute. We will not flinch. We will not bend. We will not swerve. We will get out a first class evening news broadcast this evening. |
Dennis Miller | Nothing freaks out Anna Nicole Smith's kid like watching episodes of Leave It To Beaver. |
Heather Mills McCartney | Or any boyfriends before that. Every guy I've been out with has asked me to marry them within a week, so, not at all. |
James Dobson | Well, again, I'm not an authority on end times in that sense. But I sure see a lot of evil. And it is certainly out there. |
Michael J. Fox | Stem cell is a very big possibility and a very big part of it. I don't like to rule out anything, but certainly that's a very promising thing. |
Rush Limbaugh | See, liberals think that they're so much smarter than you idiots out there. |
Tim McGraw | Probably not as much as she's been a housewife when I've been out working. It's never more than a couple days if we have to do it. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A black after hard labor through the day, will be induced by the slightest amusements to sit up till midnight, or later, though knowing he must be out with the first dawn of the morning. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | Those opinions I shall endeavor to carry out with my utmost ability. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | On the contrary, it would lift us out of a potentially perpetual state of housing emergency. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Labor sweats to create--and turns out devices to level not only mountains but also cities. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Many times in the past Cuban people have risen to throw out tyrants who destroyed their liberty. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I am carrying out their recommendations in this year's budget. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | This honor now beckons America--the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Clean out the arrogance and the big egos. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Now let me start with my generation, with the grandparents out there. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Three strikes and you're out. |
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| "Out" is generally used as an adverb (prepositional) -- approximately 99.56% of the time. "Out" is used about 151,468 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (prepositional) | 99.56% | 150,798 | 68 |
| Preposition (except "of") | 0.38% | 571 | 11,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.03% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 151,468 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "out". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Mose | N/A | N/A | Taken out |
| Beth-marcaboth | N/A | Biblical | House of bitterness wiped out |
| Cesar | N/A | Biblical | A name applied to those who are cut out of the womb |
| Charran | N/A | Biblical | A singing or calling out |
| Exodus | N/A | Biblical | Going out |
| Giah | N/A | Biblical | Draw out |
| Ira | N/A | Biblical | Pouring out |
| Ithran | N/A | Biblical | Searching out diligently |
| Jachan | N/A | Biblical | Wearing out |
| Jeaterai | N/A | Biblical | Searching out |
| Mephibosheth | N/A | Biblical | Out of my mouth proceeds reproach |
| Moses | N/A | Biblical | Taken out |
| Muppim | N/A | Biblical | Out of the mouth |
| Myra | N/A | Biblical | Pour out |
| Shamed | N/A | Biblical | Wearing out |
| Sheleph | N/A | Biblical | Who draws out |
| Shophach | N/A | Biblical | Pouring out |
| Shuphim | N/A | Biblical | Wearing them out |
| Sihon | N/A | Biblical | Rooting out |
| Tamah | N/A | Biblical | Blotting or wiping out |
| Taralah | N/A | Biblical | Searching out slander |
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Expressions using "out": ..put out under contract ♦ 3) sweating out ♦ act out ♦ Acting Out ♦ activities carried out by a worker ♦ ad out of mere caprice ♦ ad out of the frying pan into the fire ♦ air out ♦ all decked out ♦ all get out ♦ all out ♦ all out and out ♦ all out of effort ♦ allow me to point out a few mistakes ♦ allow out ♦ apportioned dealt out doled out meted out parceled out ♦ argue out ♦ argue out of doing ♦ argue smb. out of smth. ♦ arise out of smth. ♦ as if came out of a bandbox ♦ as it may turn out ♦ ask out ♦ ask smb. out ♦ authorisation provisionally to carry out the concentration ♦ automated vehicle safety read out ♦ average out ♦ average out at ♦ away out through ♦ babble out ♦ babble out smth. ♦ back out ♦ back out of ♦ back pull out pump ♦ bail out ♦ bail out a boat ♦ bail out a company ♦ bail out of an aeroplane ♦ bail out water ♦ bailing out ♦ balance out ♦ bale out ♦ bale out a boat ♦ bale out water ♦ ban on going out ♦ bang out ♦ bar out ♦ bar smb. out ♦ bark out ♦ barring out ♦ bat the ball out of the cricket ground ♦ batted out ♦ bawl one's eye out ♦ bawl out ♦ bawl out smb.'s name ♦ bawl smb. out ♦ bawling out ♦ be all out ♦ be all out for smth. ♦ be blown out ♦ be burnt out ♦ be carried out ♦ be chucked out ♦ be cleaned out ♦ be counted out ♦ be cut out for ♦ be down and out ♦ be drawn out ♦ be driven out ♦ be far out ♦ be flat out ♦ be found out ♦ be invalided out ♦ be kicked out ♦ be left out ♦ be let out ♦ be lying flat out ♦ be out ♦ be out and about ♦ be out and away the best ♦ be out at elbows ♦ be out at grass ♦ be out cold ♦ be out for ♦ be out in one's reckoning ♦ be out of a job ♦ be out of action ♦ be out of action smb. ♦ be out of alignment ♦ be out of breath ♦ be out of business ♦ be out of circulation ♦ be out of conceit with ♦ be out of danger ♦ be out of date ♦ be out of debt ♦ be out of doors ♦ be out of fashion ♦ be out of favor ♦ be out of favour ♦ be out of form. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "out": out-accelerate, out-accelerating, out-act, out-acted, out-alive, out-and-back, out-and-out, out-and-out-all-round, out-and-outer, out-and-out-royalists, out-and-return, out-argue, out-at-elbow, out-babble, out-balance, out-basket, out-baskets, out-bid, out-blandish, out-bluff, out-bluffed, out-boot, out-bound, out-bowl, out-boxed, out-break, out-breath, out-bribe, out-building, out-buildings, out-burn, out-chattering, out-classed, out-classing, out-climb, out-college, out-come, out-comes, out-commuting, out-compete, out-competed, out-county, out-crop, out-crops, out-crossing, out-crumpling, out-cry, out-cut, out-dated, out-departments, out-deviate, Out-dimbleby, out-distance, out-distancing, out-do, out-done, out-door, out-doors, out-drank, out-drink, out-drinking, out-drive, out-driving, out-drove, out-eat, out-englished, out-evolved, out-fall, out-falls, out-faxed, out-feed, out-fenced, out-field, out-fields, out-fished, out-flow, out-flows, out-flung, out-fly, out-flynn, out-for, out-fox, out-front, out-galloped, out-gassing, out-gay, out-generalled, out-glare, out-going, out-goings, out-group, out-grouping, out-groups, out-grumped, out-guard, out-gun, out-gunned, out-half, out-handle, out-haul, Out-Herod, out-hikes, out-hit, out-house, out-houses, out-housing, out-i, out-inspection, out-in-the-open, out-invests, out-island, out-jabbed, out-jockey, out-just, out-law, out-lean, out-'live, out-lived, out-living, out-lobby, out-loud, out-lying, out-machoing, out-man, out-manoeuvering, out-manoeuvre, out-manoeuvred, out-manoeuvres, out-manoeuvring, out-mario, out-marriage, out-matched, out-migrants, out-migrating, out-migration, out-moded, out-ness, out-niggered, out-number, out-numbered, out-numbering, out-nursing, out-of, out-of-action, out-of-alignment, out-of-area, out-of-balance, out-of-band, out-of-band, Out-of-band signaling, out-of-body, out-of-bounds, out-of-breath, out-of-cell, out-of-centre, out-of-character, out-of-church, out-of-city, out-of-competition, out-of-condition, out-of-context, out-of-contract, out-of-control, out-of-country, out-of-court, out-of-court settlement, out-of-date, out-of-dateness, out-of-door, out-of-doors, out-of-fashion, out-of-favour, out-office, out-of-focus, out-of-form, out-of-gauge, out-of-gear, out-of-hand, out-of-hearings, out-of-hospital, out-of-hours, out-of-house, out-of-it, out-of-keeping, out-of-key, out-of-laws, out-of-line, out-of-london, out-of-loves, out-of-mind, out-of-office, out-of-oneself, out-of-order, out-of-phase, out-of-pile, out-of-place, out-of-plane, out-of-pocket, out-of-pocket expenses, out-of-position, out-of-print, out-of-proportion, out-of-reach, out-of-role, out-of-school, out-of-season, out-of-service, out-of-sessions, out-of-sight, out-of-sorts, out-of-state, out-of-state bank, out-of-state check, out-of-state company, out-of-state resident, out-of-state student, out-of-step, out-of-stock, out-of-subject, out-of-sync, out-of-synch, out-of-the, out-of-the-blue, out-of-the-body, out-of-thebox, out-of-the-money, out-of-the-norm, out-of-the-ordinary, out-of-the-practical-swim, out-of-the-usual, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-way corner, out-of-the-wayish, out-of-the-world, out-of-this-world, out-of-time, out-of-touch, out-of-touch-with-reality, out-of-town, out-of-towner, out-oftowners, out-of-towners, out-of-trim, out-of-true, out-of-truth, out-of-tune, out-of-tuneness, out-of-uniform, out-of-wedlock, out-of-wind, out-of-work, out-of-work pay, out-of-work-donation, out-of-work-hours, out-of-your-heads-is-the-place-to-be, out-or, out-organized, out-ottomaned, out-paced, out-pacing, out-parish, out-party, out-patient, out-patients, out-payment, out-pedant, out-pension, out-pensioner, out-pensioners, out-perform, out-performance, out-performanced, out-performed, out-performing, out-performs, out-placement, out-planned, out-playing, out-point, out-pointed, out-pointing, out-polled, out-port, out-posed, out-pouring, out-price, out-produce, out-produces, out-promise, out-prospered, out-pulled, out-put, out-putted, out-qualified, out-quarterbacked, out-race, out-range, out-rank, out-ranked, out-rankle, out-reach, out-relief, out-repeated, out-respectability, out-ridden, out-ride, out-right, out-run, out-running, out-sang, out-scored, out-scrummaged, out-selling, out-servants, out-serving, out-settlement, out-shone, out-shoot, out-shot, out-shouting, out-skirts, out-smart, out-sourced, out-sourcing, out-spent, out-spin, out-spoke, out-spoken, out-sprinted, out-sprinting, out-squealing, out-squint, out-standing, out-stare, out-station, out-stations, out-stretched, out-strips, out-styled, out-swing, out-swinger, out-swingers, out-take, out-takes, out-talk, out-talked, out-tantrum, out-the, out-there, out-thereness, out-think, out-thinking, out-thought, out-thrust, out-to, out-to-in, out-to-lunch, out-to-out, out-top, out-traded, out-travel, out-tray, out-trays, out-tro, out-trunks, out-turn, out-turned, out-turns, out-twee, out-victored, out-vote, out-voted, out-weigh, out-weighed, out-weird, out-which, out-who, out-wintering, Out-woodstock, out-work, out-worker, out-workers, out-working, out-yields. | |
Ending with "out": acted-out, acting-out, bail-out, blacked-out, black-out, bleached-out, blissed-out, blown-out, boarded-out, boarding-out, bombed-out, break-out, burn-out, carrying-out, carry-out, carve-out, chill-out, chucking-out, clapped-out, clean-out, clear-out, climb-out, contract-out, cook-out, cop-out, crossings-out, day-out, drying-out, earn-out, engine-out, evening-out, fade-out, falling-out, fitted-out, fitting-out, flattened-out, fleshed-out, fleshing-out, freak-out, full-out, get-out, gross-out, half-out, hang-out, hide-out, hollowed-out, ill-thought-out, in-and-out, kick-out, kitted-out, laid-out, laying-out, let-out, lined-out, line-out, mail-out, middle-out, not-out, opted-out, opting-out, opt-out, out-and-out, paid-out, passing-out, pay-out, phase-out, phasing-out, pig-out, psych-out, putting-out, read-out, rolled-out, roll-out, run-out, scooped-out, sell-out, set-out, setting-out, shoot-out, shut-out, sitting-out, slide-out, slopping-out, sort-out, stake-out, stand-out, sticking-out, stressed-out, stretched-out, striking-out, stripped-out, take-out, tear-out, thought-out, time-out, torn-out, try-out, turned-out, turn-out, unthought-out, walking-out, walk-out, washed-out, wash-out, way-out, weeding-out, week-out, well-thought-out, white-out, wipe-out, worked-out, working-out, work-out, worn-out, wrung-out, year-out. | |
Containing "out": cut-out-and-keep, giving-out-food, pull-out-and-keep. | |