give out

Questions about give out

What does give out mean?

give out means "give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for give out?

Close synonyms include emit, give off, distribute, hand out, pass out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give out a common word?

give out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.