OUT

1. Out refers to moving outwards; that is, from an interior to an exterior. It usually indicates physical movement (e.g. walk out, go out..), but can sometimes indicate implied movement or direction (e.g. ask out, gaze out...). ‘He rushed out of the house to see what the noise was all about’. Out is often used to mean not at home, or away from home. ‘Marge is out shoplping. She’ll be back in half an hour’.

Ask, bail, be, break, call, contrac, dine, drive, eat, get (of), go out, invite, look, nip, move, pour, pull, punch, put, ride, run, rush, see, send, set, shoot, show, shut, slip, start, stay, storm, strike, take, tear, turn, walk out.

2. Another meaning of out is to happen, subside, expire, withdraw or disappear. ‘We had back out of the project for lack of funds’. It is also used in a causative sense to mean exclude, eliminate or obliterate. ‘Somebody has torn several pages out of this book’.

Back, black, blot, blow, bow, burn, cop, count, cross, cut, die, draw, drop, deown, fall, filter, flood, get, get (of), give, go, grow (of), keep, dick, cnock, leave, lock, mark, miss, pass, phase, pick, put, root, rule, run, shake, shut, sit, sort, squeeze, stamp, take, tear, throw, turn, wash, wear, weed, wipe out.

3. Out is used to indicate that something is physically prominent or conspicuous. ‘Harriet’s red hat stands out in the crowd’. Similarly, the prominence can be a movement; that is, something projects in an outward direction. ’I reached out and grasped her hand’.

Branch, bring, give, hold, lash, leak, look, point, put, reach, stand, stick, strike out.

4. Another meaning of out relates to producing or publishing something. ‘They’ll be bringing out his new book early next month’. As an extension of this idea, it also means to distribute or circulate. ‘She’s giving out publicity fliers at store entrances’. ‘They served out a sumptuous, four-course meal to the royal guests.

Be, bring, churn, come, dish, dole, get, give, hend, leak, let, pay, put, roll, send, serve, turn  out.

5. It can indicate progress of an activity, often until it finishes. 'Let's see how things play out'. It can also mean (thorough) completion of an action. 'I wrote out my notes in full to help me remember them'. 'Please fill out this form'

6. Out can indicate an action that takes place suddenly or unexpectedly. ‘”Stop tapping your spoon on the table”, she blurted out’. Out is often added to verbs to indicate that a process or an action is done fully, or to completion. ‘I’m going to clean out the spare room on the weekend’. The idea of completion or fulfillment becomes clear when comparing a phrasal verb of this kind with the verbon its own. To think, for instance, involves deliberating or considering different aspects of an issue, but to think out means that a specific solution or result emerges as the end product of such deliberation. ‘I’m thinking out a way of getting the goods to our client first thing tomorrow morning’.

Bark, belt, blurt, burn, burst, buy, call, carry, check, clean, clock, cry, dig, dry, figure, fill, fit, flesh, hammer, hear, help, hold, hollow, iron, last, pay, puzzle, read, rinse, seek, sell, shell, speak, spell, spy, stick, think, thrash, work, write  out.

7. Other meanings of out... ‘There’s something moving behind that hill over there, but I can’t make out what it is’. ‘She’s always been pretty skinny, but now tha she’s reached puberty, she’s starting to fill out’.

Bail, be, be (of), bear, break (in), burn, buy, carve, check, come (in), crowd, cry (for), cut, do, draw, eke, fill, find, go (with), have (it), launch (on), lay, log, look, look (for), make, print, punch, put, ride, rough, see, send (for), set, single, sit, sort, sound, space, spin, spread, step, straighten, stride, take, talk (of), try, turn, walk, walk (on), watch, work out.