Lexic.us

Definition of Give out

1. Verb. Give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.. "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits"

2. Verb. Give to several people. "The teacher handed out the exams"

3. Verb. Prove insufficient. "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

4. Verb. Stop operating or functioning. "These cars won't give out "; "Her eyesight went after the accident"

Definition of Give out

1. Verb. ''transitive''. to utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. '''to give (it) out:''' to profess, give it to be believed that. also, '''to give (a person) out''' to be (so and so) ¹

2. Verb. to announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing ¹

3. Verb. to send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth. also, to put forth, utter (prayers) ¹

4. Verb. to issue; to distribute ¹

5. Verb. ''intransitive'' of persons: to desist (in later use, to desist through exhaustion of strength or patience). of an implement, a limb, a machine, etc.: to break down, get out of order, fail. of a supply: to run short, come to an end ¹

6. Verb. (Ireland, idiomatic). To complain, sulk, chastise. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Out

give it the gun give it up give lie to give me give me liberty or give me death give notice give of oneself give off give one's all give one's best

give one's eye-teeth give one's notice give one enough rope give oneself airs give or take give out (current term) give over give place give rise give rise to

give some skin give somebody a hand give somebody a hard time give somebody a piece of one's mind give somebody an earful give somebody pause give somebody the brush-off give somebody the cold shoulder give somebody the heave-ho give somebody the old heave-ho

Literary usage of Give out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"To show, that ministers should give out what they know of God to the world. MAT. Why is the rainbow caused hy the sun ? PRUD. To show, that the covenant of ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... answering with an independent and very characteristic phrase of their own the group of strings which give out the first part of the subject. ..."

3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Then we went shootin', an' when we come back I was feelin' as chirpy as a cricket, an' I took an' rolled Samuelson up an' down the verandah, and give out to ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... who died young—but not before she seized the harp of Judah and made it give out strains that all too briefly renewed the ancient fervor and inspiration. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the diaphragm, acted on by the needle point passing over the indentation, will give out the ваше word« which were spoken to it. (T. GK. ..."

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