exit

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  1. noun The act of going away or out.
  2. noun A passage or way out: an emergency exit in a theater; took the second exit on the throughway.
  3. noun The departure of a performer from the stage.

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  • The only other exit is the fire stairwell and you can't enter from the outside, and it wasn't jimmied. —  The Twelfth Card
  • The only other exit was a small window on the side of the cabin, too small to crawl through, but he stuck out his arms and yelled for his friends, and they dragged him out—though the tug ripped away his clothing and a fair bit of his skin in the bargain—and then leaped for safety onto the driftwood. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Wouldn't you know it, right outside the exit was again the suspicious looking man. —  American Bedu
  • Only horizontal cars can reach the exit, and the exit is reached when starting column + length = 7. —  MSDN Blogs
  • At the request of Gazprom, from the early hours after gas supplies were cut off to Ukrainian consumers an independent international auditing company has monitored and is still monitoring the amount of gas at the entry to and exit from the Ukrainian gas transportation system. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
 

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entrance ·  entry ·  access ·  escape ·  stop ·  departure ·  route ·  tunnel ·  channel ·  retreat ·  delivery ·  location

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exit:   exits ·  exited ·  exiting
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Latin, third person sing. of exīre, to go out : ex-, ex- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 2, from Latin exitus, from past participle of exīre.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese exito = Italian esito, from Latin exitus, a going out, egress, a way out (in the stage use, in English, from exit, v.), also in Middle Latin issue, offspring, vent, from exire, past participle exitus, go out, from ex, out, + ire, go. Cf. issue, n., nearly a doublet of exit.
  2. Latin, he goes out, a stage direction in plays; 3d person singular present indicative of exire, go out: see exit, n.
 

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