In many languages there is no direct translation, as the idea expressed by the English adverb is expressed by a prefix in many languages. Other West Germanic languages are halfway in-between to some extent as it uses a prefix in the infinitive of its verbs, but often, though not always, separates the prefix into the same form as the English adverb when conjugating them.

• Dutch: usually expressed by the prefix uit-
• Esperanto: usually expressed by the prefix el- and/or preposition el (1), ekstere (2)
• Finnish: ablative case (-lta, -ltä) or elative case (-sta, -stä)
• German: usually expressed by the prefix aus-
• Hungarian: usually expressed by the prefix ki-
• Latin: usually expressed by the prefix ex-
• Latvian: usually expressed by the prefix iz-
• Russian: usually expressed by the prefix вы- ( vy- ). sometimes by вз- ( vz- ). воз- ( voz- )
• Slovak: usually expressed by the prefix vy- . or sometimes z-
• Swedish: sometimes expressed by the prefix ut . In some cases considered somewhat formal.

1. A means of exit. escape. reprieve. etc. They wrote the law to give those organizations an out .
2. ( 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.
3. ( 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 hit wicket. wherein the bowler has hit the batsman's wicket with the ball.
4. ( poker ) A card which can make a hand a winner.
5. ( dated ) A trip out; an outing.
   • Charles Dickens, Bleak House "Us London lawyers don't often get an out ; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."
6. ( chiefly in the plural ) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
7. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
8. ( printing. dated ) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy ; an omission .

Translations Edit

1. ( transitive ) To eject ; to expel.
   • Selden a king outed from his country
   • Heylin The French have been outed of their holds.
2. ( transitive ) To reveal (a person) to be gay. bisexual. or transgender .
3. ( transitive ) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
   • 2009 March 16, Maurna Desmond, "AIG Outs Counterparties " (online news article), Forbes.com .
4. ( transitive ) To reveal (a secret). A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
5. ( intransitive. archaic ) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
   • Shakespeare Truth will out.
6. To become apparent.

2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City�, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) [1]. BBC Sport. 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.

Translations Edit

to reveal to be gay, bisexual, or transgender

to reveal as having a certain secret

to reveal (a secret)

Adjective Edit

1814 July, [Jane Austen]. chapter V, in Mansfield Park. volume I, London: T[homas] Egerton. OCLC 39810224 . page 98. "Pray, is she out. or is she not?—I am puzzled.—She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being out ; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she is ."

Did you hear? Their newest CD is out !

• 2009. Roger Stahl, Militainment, Inc. War, Media, and Popular Culture. page 96: The game was commercially released on Xbox and PC in 2005 as an installment of the Close Combat series, which had been out since 1996.

Usage notes Edit

• In cricket, the specific cause or rule under which a batsman is out appears after the word “outâ€�, e.g. “out hit the ball twiceâ€�.
• In baseball, the cause is expressed as a verb with adverbial “outâ€�, e.g. “he grounded outâ€�.

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of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted

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Declension of out