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out (n.)[out 词源字典]: 1620s, "a being out" (of something), from out (adv.). From 1860 in baseball sense; from 1919 as "means of escape; alibi."[out etymology, out origin, 英语词源]
out-bid (v.): 1580s, from out (adv.) + bid (v.). Related: Out-bidding; out-bidden.
out-building (n.): "a detached or subordinate building," 1620s, from out + building (n.).
out-take (n.): "rejected part of a film," 1960, from out + take (n.) in the movie sense.
out-thrust (adj.): 1820, from out (adv.) + thrust (v.).
outage (n.): "period or condition in which electrical power is disconnected," 1903, American English; formed from out on model of shortage.
outback (n.): "back-country, interior regions of Australia," 1907, Australian English, originally an adverb, "out in the back settlements" (1878), from out + back (adv.).
outboard (adj.): "situated on the outside of a ship," 1823, from out + board (n.2). In reference to motors, from 1909.
outbreak (n.): "eruption" (of disease, hostilities, etc.), c. 1600, from out + break (v.). Outbreak was a verb in Middle English (c. 1300).
outburst (n.): 1650s, from out + burst (v.). Outbresten was a verb in Middle English (mid-12c.), from Old English utaberstan.
outcast (n.): mid-14c., "a person cast out or rejected," originally past participle of Middle English outcasten, from out + casten "to cast" (see cast (v.)). The adjective is attested from late 14c. In an Indian context, outcaste "one who has been expelled from his caste" is from 1876; see caste.
outclass (v.): 1870, "to beat (a rival) so completely as to put him out of the same class," from out + class (v.).
outcome (n.): 1788, "that which results from something," originally Scottish, from out + come (v.). Popularized in English by Carlyle (c. 1830s). Used in Middle English in sense of "act or fact of coming out" (c. 1200). Old English had utancumen (n.) "stranger, foreigner."
outcrop (n.): 1805, in geology, "exposure of rocks at the surface," from out + crop (n.) in its sense of "sprout, head."
outcry (n.): mid-14c., "act of crying aloud," from out + cry (v.). In metaphoric sense of "public protest," first attested 1911 in George Bernard Shaw.
outdated (adj.): also out-dated, 1610s, "grown obsolete," from out + past participle of date (v.1). Out-of-date is attested from 1610s.
outdoor (adj.): 1748, from out + door. Out-of-door is from c. 1800.
outdoors (adv.): 1817, from outdoor + adverbial genitive. As a noun, "open spaces," recorded from 1857.
outdoorsman (n.): 1924, American English, from outdoors + man (n.).
outen (v.): "put out," 1916, American English dialectal; see out (adv.) + -en (1). An idiom in Pennsylvania German.