Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- prep. From within to the outside of: got out of the car.
- prep. From a given condition: came out of her trance.
- prep. From an origin, source, or cause: made out of wood; did it out of spite.
- prep. In, especially intermittently in: works out of the main office.
- prep. In a position or situation beyond the range, boundaries, limits, or sphere of: The plane flew out of sight.
- prep. In a state or position away from the expected or usual: out of practice; out of touch with reality.
- prep. From among: five out of six votes.
- prep. In or into a condition of no longer having: We're out of coffee. We were tricked out of our savings.
- idiom. out of it Informal Not aware of or participating in a particular group, pursuit, or trend.
- idiom. out of it Informal Disoriented or inebriated.
Wiktionary
- prep. From the inside to the outside of ; having emerged from.
- prep. Not part of.
- prep. With the motivation of.
- prep. Without; no longer in possession of; not having more; divested of.
- prep. Not in a customary or desired state.
- prep. Expressing a fraction or a ratio.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. a phrase which may be considered either as composed of an adverb and a preposition, each having its appropriate office in the sentence, or as a compound preposition. Considered as a preposition, it denotes, with verbs of movement or action,
from the interior of ;beyond the limit :from ; hence,origin ,source ,motive ,departure ,separation ,loss , etc.; -- opposed toin orinto ; also with verbs of being, the state of being derived, removed, or separated from. Examples may be found in the phrases below, and also under Vocabulary words; as,out of breath;out of countenance.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. motivated by
Examples
“It was already midafternoon, and I was still feeling dazed and numb when Ramos, one of the detectives out of Scarborough, arrived, accompanied by the department's detective sergeant, Wallace MacArthur, and a whole cartload of questions.”
“I made my wish and then, before the magic could end, I dashed out of the Le Car.”
“PanTech operated out of a three-story smoked-glass office in Westbrook and specialized in making security systems for the networks of financial institutions.”
“Our trip coincides with a conference my father is attending, but it has been repackaged as a Sweet-Sixteen Birthday Tour, since recent events have convinced my parents that they can never again let me out of their sight.”
“Grace Peltier's credit card statement revealed nothing out of the ordinary, while the telephone records indicated calls to Marcy Becker at her parents' motel, a private number in Boston which was now disconnected but which I assumed to be Ali Wynn's, and repeated calls to the Fellowship's office in Waterville.”
“The Manhattan North Homicide Squad is regarded as an elite group within the NYPD, operating out of an office at 120 East 119th Street.”
“From out of the darkness, the Beamshot laser sight on Louis's gun projected its light as he tried to find a clear shot, but my body and the darkness of the Golem's clothes shielded him from both Louis and Angel.”
“Moon Unit Zappa is a writer, filmmaker, wife, and mom who would happily come out of acting seclusion to make out with Michael Schoeffling under the keen and watchful writing/direction of John Hughes.”
“This was Detective John Lutz, the investigating officer on the case, except Lutz was attached to CID III and operated out of Machias, while Waterville was technically in the territory of CID II.”
“I find myself returning again and again to a woman named Tante Marie Aguillard, her impossibly tiny child's voice coming to me from out of her immense form.”
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