out
part of speech
adverb, preposition (out; out of); adjective (out); verb (out, outed — to tell others a secret about someone)
meaning for a pupil
1) Out means away from the inside of something. tree →
2) Out means not at home or not in a place. tree →
3) Out means used up, finished or not working, as in «ran out», «the light is out». tree →
4) Out means seen or known, as in «the sun is out», «the new game is out». tree →
5) In games, out means no longer in play. tree →
6) (casual) «I'm out» means I'm leaving or I'm not joining; «out of it» means tired, not paying attention; «way out» means amazing or strange. tree →
7) (rude) «Get out!», «out of my way!», «out of order» (UK: not fair, wrong behaviour). tree →
8) (euphemism) «Let out early» or «out of work» means lost a job; «out for the count» means fast asleep or knocked down. tree →
9) (formal) Exams say «depleted», «exhausted», «distributed», «withdrawn», «absent» and «proportion of». tree →
10) Out added to a verb can mean loudly, aloud or suddenly, as in "rang out", "rapped out" or "broke out". tree →
sense in the lessons
in phrases of change: «gave out», «ran out», «took out» take away; «out of» names the total («18 out of 20»); in everyday life «go out», «find out», «look out!», «watch out», «out loud», «work out»; in casual talk «I'm out», «chill out», «freak out», «out of it»; in rough talk «get out», «that's out of order», «outta my way»; in the exam voice «the supply was exhausted», «20 leaflets were distributed», «18 correct responses out of a possible 20»
examples
- She took out 6 cookies. tree →
- He gave out 20 flyers. tree →
- She got 18 out of 20 right. tree →
- They ran out of milk. tree →
- Mom is out, she will be back soon. tree →
- Look out! A car is coming. tree →
- The sun came out after the rain. tree →
- Read the poem out loud. tree →
- We need to find out the answer. tree →
- Outta my way, I'm late, the bus is in 2 mins! tree →
- That's out of order, you took 5 and left me 1. tree →
- A candidate furnished correct responses to 18 out of a possible 20 items. State the number answered incorrectly. tree →
note
«took out», «gave out», «went out» usually take away. Trap: «N out of M» names a part and a whole, not a subtraction; «3 out of 4» is three quarters. «Find out» and «work out» mean to learn or solve, with no operation. «distributed» in an exam means given out; «exhausted» or «depleted» means none left. «out of order» means broken, or in UK talk, unfair. Safety: «Watch out!» and «Look out!» are warnings.
In the corpora
- It moves as numbers when a card is tapped, a bill goes out or pay comes in.
- A bank statement lists everything that went in and out of an account, and grown-ups check it for mistakes and fraud.
- Some cash machines charge a fee for taking out money, while most bank ones are free.
- Cashback at a shop means taking your own money out as cash while paying by card; it is not a gift.
- Example: in a house in Brisbane, a "For Sale" board goes up out the front.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «out» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.