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1. (informal, sometimes proscribed) From the inside to the outside of; out of.Examples: "throw it out the window; get it out your mind"; "We are gonna get evicted. —If your fat butt fits out the door, that is."; "Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?"Synonyms: throughinformalproscribedsometimes

1. (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.Examples: "The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat."

2. (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.

3. (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.Examples: "As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand."; "If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K."

4. (dated) A trip out; an outing.Examples: "Us London lawyers don't often get an out; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."dated

5. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.Examples: "This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]"Antonyms: inin-plural

6. (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.dated

1. (transitive) To eject; to expel.Examples: "a king outed of his country"; "The French have been outed from their holds."; ""I outed myself for life that night. I can put up a show fight and exhibition bout, but I'm done for the real thing.""transitive

2. (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.Examples: "Truth will out."; "In which Argument he whose courage can serve him to give the first onset, must look for two severall oppositions: the one from those who having sworn themselves to long custom and the letter of the Text, will not out of the road: the other from those whose grosse and vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimoniall purposes, and in the work of male and female think they have all."; "In those opening minutes City looked like a team that were not ready for Celtic's intensity. They looked a bit shocked to be involved in a fight. Class will out, though."Synonyms: come to light, crop outintransitive

3. (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.Examples: "2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties" (online news article), Forbes.com."; ""Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy.""transitive

4. (transitive) To reveal (a secret).Examples: "A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design."; "[Tom] Holland himself admitted to GQ last year that the two hadn't really wanted to go public with their dating status. A video of them making out in a car outed their relationship."transitive

5. (transitive, LGBTQ) To reveal (a person) as LGBTQ+ (gay, trans, etc).Examples: "She throws her head back and lets out a warm laugh before she continues, “After that I thought, What am I so worried about? So I began to tell more people, and the more I outed myself, the easier it got.”"; "Trans Media Watch had recently spoken at the Leveson Inquiry about how the Sun and the Daily Mail routinely outed trans people, publishing old names and photos, for no reason other than because they could."; "Always in my life I knew I was different. I also accepted that in a way, but I thought I could just live out those desires in private, for myself. I also have gone out en femme for a couple of years. […] I outed myself to my sister, which was super positive and is^([sic]) now my biggest supporter (love u sis!)."transitive

1. Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:Examples: "I worked away cleaning the U-bend until all the gunge was out."; "This building is unsafe. Keep out!"not-comparable

2. Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:Examples: "I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out."not-comparable

3. Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:Examples: "He bowls, Johnson pokes at it ... and ... Johnson is out! Caught behind by Ponsonby!"not-comparable

4. Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:Examples: "Right, so that idea's out. Let's move on to the next one."not-comparableusually

5. Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:Examples: "I've got diabetes, so cookies are right out."not-comparable

6. Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:Examples: "Power is out in the entire city."; "My wi-fi is out."not-comparable

1. (procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.Examples: "Destruction. Two T-72s destroyed. Three foot mobiles down. Out."; "[Galactic Federation official]: 'Does Samus suspect anything?' / Ship AI: 'No, I do not think so.' / [Galactic Federation official]: 'Good. Monitor her closely.' / Ship AI: 'Affirmative. Out.'"especially