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say it: owt
out is an adjective, verb, adverb and noun meaning "not allowed to continue to bat or run". It is pronounced /ˈaʊt/ — owt. It carries 17 recorded senses.
being out or having grown cold
“threw his extinct cigarette into the stream”
“the fire is out”
out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
“now the Democrats are out”
excluded from use or mention
“forbidden fruit”
“in our house dancing and playing cards were out”
“a taboo subject”
directed outward or serving to direct something outward
“the out doorway”
“the out basket”
knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
“This actor outed last year”
reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
“The gay actor was outed last week”
“Someone outed a CIA agent”
away from home
“they went out last night”
moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
“the cat came out from under the bed”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for out come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.