'out' definitions:
Definition of 'out'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Away from home; "they went out last night"
adverb
Moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden; "the cat came out from under the bed";
adverb
From one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets" [syn: away, out]
adjective
Not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out" [ant: safe(p)]
adjective
Being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out" [syn: extinct, out(p)]
adjective
Not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"
adjective
Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out"
adjective
Excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject" [syn: forbidden, out(p), prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten]
adjective
Directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"
adjective
No longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"
adjective
Outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull"
adjective
Outer or outlying; "the out islands"
adjective
noun
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"
verb
To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year" [syn: come out of the closet, out, come out]
verb
Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"
verb
Be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out" [syn: out, come out]
Definition of 'out'
From: GCIDE
- Sell \Sell\ (s[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sold (s[=o]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Selling.] [OE. sellen, sillen, AS. sellan, syllan, to give, to deliver; akin to OS. sellian, OFries. sella, OHG. sellen, Icel. selja to hand over, to sell, Sw. s[aum]lja to sell, Dan. s[ae]lge, Goth. saljan to offer a sacrifice; all from a noun akin to E. sale. Cf. Sale.]
- 1. To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. It is the correlative of buy. [1913 Webster]
- If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor. --Matt. xix. 21. [1913 Webster]
- I am changed; I'll go sell all my land. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. [1913 Webster]
- You would have sold your king to slaughter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants.
- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'out'
From: GCIDE
- Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.]
- 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. [1913 Webster]
- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled. [1913 Webster]
- Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'out'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 out