# go out

Pronunciation: say "goh-OWT" US /ˌɡoʊ ˈaʊt/, UK /ˌɡəʊ ˈaʊt/; AUS

## Phrasal verb

1. To leave one's home and go somewhere public, especially for recreation or entertainment.
   - Simple: To leave your home to go somewhere fun, like a restaurant, a movie, or a party.
   - _They rarely go out on weeknights now that the baby has arrived._
   - _After the exam the whole class went out dancing to celebrate._
2. To leave a place, especially to exit a building.
   - Simple: To leave a place, especially a building.
   - _Visitors must go out the same way they came in._
   - _She went out onto the porch to get some air._
3. Of two people, to have a romantic relationship built around dating each other; to be a couple.
   - Simple: To be a couple and go on dates together.
   - _They went out for two years before anyone at the office noticed._
   - _Teenagers who go out with someone their parents dislike tend to keep it quiet._
4. To stop burning or shining; to be extinguished or switched off.
   - Simple: To stop shining or burning, or to be switched off.
   - _The campfire went out sometime after midnight._
   - _Streetlights go out automatically when the sun comes up._
5. Of one's heart or thoughts, to be directed toward someone in sympathy or goodwill.
   - Simple: To feel deep sympathy or warm wishes for someone, used of a person's heart or thoughts.
   - _Her heart went out to the exhausted nurses on the night shift._
   - _Our sympathies go out to the families who lost their homes in the fire._
6. Of the tide, to recede from the shore; to ebb.
   - Simple: Of the tide, to move back from the shore.
   - _The tide went out so far that the boats sat on the mud._
   - _Fishermen wait for the tide to go out before checking the traps._
7. To lose a place in a competition and take no further part in it.
   - Simple: To lose and be knocked out of a competition.
   - _The defending champions went out in the quarterfinals to a team nobody had heard of._
   - _Half the entrants go out before the televised rounds even begin._
8. To lose consciousness; to pass out.
   - Simple: To faint or get knocked out so you do not know what is happening.
   - _One clean punch and the challenger went out before he hit the canvas._
   - _Patients sometimes go out for a moment when they stand up too fast._
9. To cease to be fashionable; to pass out of style.
   - Simple: To stop being popular or fashionable.
   - _Shoulder pads went out with the eighties and show no sign of returning._
   - _Slang words go out as quickly as they arrive._
10. To stop working or give way; to fail. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To fail or stop working.
   - _Her knee went out on her halfway through the marathon._
   - _Transmissions on that model tend to go out around a hundred thousand miles._
11. Of a quality or feeling, to drain away from someone or something and disappear.
   - Simple: Of a feeling or energy, to leave someone or something completely.
   - _Once the goalkeeper was sent off, the belief went out of the whole team._
   - _Something seemed to go out of her voice when she mentioned her brother._
12. Of a television or radio program, to be broadcast or transmitted. *(UK)*
   - Simple: Of a TV or radio show, to be shown or played on air.
   - _The programme goes out at eight, straight after the news._
   - _Episodes that went out in the 1970s have been remastered for the box set._
13. To die; to reach the end of one's life.
   - Simple: To die, or to come to the end of your life.
   - _She went out the way she had lived, arguing with the nurses to the last._
   - _Nobody gets to choose how they go out, but he came close._
14. To come to an end; to become extinct or expire.
   - Simple: To come to an end, or to stop existing altogether.
   - _Many traditions went out with the generation that kept them._
   - _The dynasty went out in a single disastrous winter._
15. To finish a show or a broadcast with a particular song or item, used with on.
   - Simple: To end a show with a certain song or piece, used with on.
   - _Every episode goes out on the same closing theme._
   - _Let's go out on something upbeat, since it's Friday._
16. In card games, to get rid of the last cards in one's hand by discarding or melding them.
   - Simple: In a card game, to play or put down all the cards in your hand.
   - _She went out by melding her last three cards and caught the whole table with full hands._
   - _In most rummy games you cannot go out while holding an unmatched card._

## Noun · go-out

Pronunciation: say "GOH-owt" US /ˈɡoʊ aʊt/, UK /ˈɡəʊ aʊt/

17. A session of surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing, or a similar sport on the sea.
   - Simple: One time out in the sea surfing or doing a similar water sport.
   - _An early-morning go-out on glassy water is the best way to start a day._
   - _She logged every one of her go-outs in a notebook: date, wave height, how long she stayed in._
18. In dog obedience training, an exercise in which the dog leaves the handler, runs to a target such as a white fence, turns, and sits.
   - Simple: A dog training exercise where the dog runs away from the trainer to a target, turns, and sits.
   - _A clean go-out means the dog travels straight to the far end of the ring without looking back._
   - _She broke the go-out into small steps, rewarding the dog for every few feet._
19. A sluice set in an embankment against the sea, through which water from the land is let out when the tide is out.
   - Simple: A gate in a sea wall that lets water from the land drain out when the tide is low.
   - _Each go-out was fitted with a door that the falling tide allowed the drainage men to open._
   - _The go-outs along the Wash drained thousands of acres of fen into the sea._

## Phrasal verb

20. To take part in a duel, often with the opponent named after with. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To take part in a duel with someone.

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