Sekirov Dictionary

go out

verb 19
go-out noun 3
forms 5

verb19

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To leave, especially a building.
- Please go out through the back door.
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To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.
- On their first date they went out to dinner at a restaurant.
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To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- They've been going out for three years now, but still live apart.
- Jack and Susan are going out.
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To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- Do you think she will go out with anyone this year?
To come to an end, by nature or by an unseen external agent.
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To be turned off or extinguished.
- The lights went out while I was taking a shower.
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To become extinct, to expire.
- And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year. — 1922
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To die.
- As much as you may want to plan your funeral, you can't control when you go out.
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To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- Our thoughts and prayers go out to those afflicted by the tragedy.
- My heart went out to her, but there was nothing I could do.
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To be eliminated from a competition.
- Our team went out in the third round.
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To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.
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(UK) To be broadcast.
- The first episode of the show goes out on Saturday.
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(informal) To fail.
- I'd like to help clear the field, but my knee went out on me.
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To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
- All the fizz has already gone out of the election campaign.
- After diagnosis, all his confidence went out of him.
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To go unconscious; to pass out.
- When I hit him, he hit the floor and went out.
To recede; to ebb.
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To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- Thank you for introducing us to your new album. Which song should we go out on?
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To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- Leon made two canastas, then went out by melding treys.
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(no longer used) To take part in a duel (with).
- He went out at the first hint with the Neapolitan, and being an admirable swordsman, wounded and disarmed him; […] — 1789

go-out noun3

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A session of surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing, or similar sea sport.
- Up until then, I had only surfed Rincon a couple of times. And, they were short go-outs. — 2003
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A dog obedience training maneuver, in which the dog leaves the trainer and goes to a target (a white fence), turns, and sits there
- This method of teaching the go-out is set up to take 11 days, but can be done in a week if your training sessions are scheduled properly. — 1979
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A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters when the tide is out.
- John of Gaunt, "time-honoured Lancaster,," made Lincoln Castle his summer residence, and built a winter palace in the southern suburbs, near the Gowts (go-outs) bridge. — 1857

forms

went out · gone out · going out · goes out · go-outs

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