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  1. adverb In a direction away from the inside: Let's go out and look at the stars.
  2. adverb Away from the center or middle: The troops fanned out.
  3. adverb Away from a usual place: stepped out for a drink of water; went out for the evening.
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  • As we returned to Oxford in the evening, I out-walked Johnson, and he cried out Sufflamina, a Latin word which came from his mouth with peculiar grace, and was as much as to say, Put on your drag chain. —  Life of Johnson
  • Farther out are the traces of the mortuary van, blast it. —  Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
  • As we returned to Oxford in the evening, I out-walked Johnson, and he cried out Suffiamina , a Latin word which came from his mouth with peculiar grace, and was as much as to say, Put on your drag chain . —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • Therefore, flushing you four out was a win-win for me. —  Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
  • Getting her out was a job; she was shaking too bad and frantic besides. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2008
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ūt; see ud- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English out, owt, oute, owte, from (a) Anglo-Saxon ūt = Old Saxon ūt = OFries. ūt = Middle Dutch ut, Dutch uit = Middle Low German ut, ute, uten = Old High German ūz, ūzs, ūzz, Middle High German ūz, ūsz, ūs, German aus = Icelandic ūt = Swedish ut = Dan ud = Goth, ūt, out; whence (b) Anglo-Saxon ūte = Old Saxon ūta, ūte = OFries. uta, ute = Old High German ūze, ūzze, ūzsi, Middle High German ūze, ūzze, ouze = Swedish ute = Danish ude = Goth, ūta, out, without; (c) Anglo-Saxon ūtan = Old Saxon ūtan = Old High German ūzana, ūzān, Middle High German ūzen, German aussen = Icelandic ūtan = Swedish utan = Danish uden = Gothic (Moesogothic) ūtana, from without; prob. = Sanskrit ud, up, out. Hence comp. utter (whence utter, v., utterance, etc.), superlative utterest, utmost, outmost, etc., about, without, outward, etc.
  2. Imperative and exclamatory use of out, adv.
  3. from out, adv.
  4. from Middle English outen, from Anglo-Saxon ūtian, put out, utter (= Old High German ūzōn, Middle High German ūzen, put out, reflexive go out), from ūt, out: see out, adv. Cf. utter. In the intransitive use out is the adverb used elliptically (go, come, or some other verb being understood).
 

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