out

Noun

• (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
  • you only get 3 outs per inning
    

Verb

• be made known; be disclosed or revealed
  • The truth will out
    

• reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
  • The gay actor was outed last week
    
  • Someone outed a CIA agent
    

• to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
  • This actor outed last year
    

Adjective

• knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

• outer or outlying
  • the out islands
    

• outside or external
  • the out surface of a ship's hull
    

• no longer fashionable
  • that style is out these days
    

• directed outward or serving to direct something outward
  • the out doorway
    
  • the out basket
    

• excluded from use or mention
  • forbidden fruit
    
  • in our house dancing and playing cards were out
    
  • a taboo subject
    

• out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
  • now the Democrats are out
    

• not worth considering as a possibility
  • a picnic is out because of the weather
    

• being out or having grown cold
  • threw his extinct cigarette into the stream
    
  • the fire is out
    

• not allowed to continue to bat or run
  • he was tagged out at second on a close play
    
  • he fanned out
    

Adverb

• from one's possession
  • he gave out money to the poor
    
  • gave away the tickets
    

• moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden;
  • the cat came out from under the bed
    

• away from home
  • they went out last night
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  come out , come out of the closet , knocked out(p) , kayoed , KO'd , out(p) , stunned , out(a) , forbidden , prohibited , proscribed , taboo , tabu , verboten , extinct , away