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out of, prep.|ˈaʊtəv|
Also 1–4 út of, 4– out o, (7– o'), 4–7 out a; 4–6 oute, owt(e of.
[orig., and still in writing, two words, viz. the adv. out followed by the prep. of (in its primary sense = from). In analysis out of is precisely on the same level with the obs. down of, up of, and the current forth of, out from, out to, down from, and other instances of an adv. followed by a prep. which defines its relation to an object. But in OE. as in OS. and the Scandinavian langs. út of (OS., ON. út af, Sw. ut af, Da. ud af) became the regular equivalent of L. ex, Gr. ἐξ, ἐκ (while Ger. and Du. used the adv. itself as a prep.); out of has thus acquired a unity of sense and also of pronunciation, which entitle it to separate treatment, whereby also its own sense-development can be more distinctly exhibited.
The history of out of is partly parallel to that of in to, with the differences that the latter is now written into as one word, and that out of is the opposite, not only of into, but also of the static in. One reason why out of has not needed to be written as one word may be that the distinction now made between into and in to is in the case of out expressed by out of and out from: thus ‘they came in to me, into my house’, ‘he went out from me, out of my house’.]
I. Of motion or direction. (Opp. to into.)
1. lit. From within (a containing space or thing).
c893K. ælfred Oros. vi. xxxviii. §1 Hie aforan ut of þære byriᵹ. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xviii. [xvi.] (1890) 308 Þa fluᵹon ða cneohtas ut of þæm ealonde. 1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137 Sume fluᵹen ut of lande. c1290Beket 343 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 116 Þe king ovt of Noremandie cam In-to Enguelonde. a1440Sir Degrev. 899, I shall teche the a gyn Out of this castel to wyn. 1450W. Somner in Four C. Eng. Lett. 4 Yn the syght of all his men he was drawyn ought of the grete shippe. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 163 b, [He] plucketh out of his bosome a lether bagge, and takynge out of it certen letters, hasteth out of the doers. 1618S. Ward Jethro's Justice (1627) 11, I wonder not that Christ..whipt out the chapmen out of the Temple. 1742H. Walpole Lett. I. 156 Every body is going out of town. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xliii, To scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. i. 8 It has..cut an awkward cantle out of my property. 1872Punch 2 Mar. 88/1 He fairly laughed the Bill out of the House.
b. Of direction: From within; so as to point, project, or lead away from.
c1400–[see come v. 64 d]. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 163 b, Lookynge downe out of the stowffe wyndowe [L. ex hypocausti fenestra] into the courte. 1601Holland Pliny II. 278 It groweth ordinarily vpon rockes bearing out of the sea. 1874Farrar Christ I. 476 Minarets rising out of their groves of palm and citron. 1885Rita Like Dian's Kiss i. 7 Room after room, one opening out of another.
c. From among (a number), from the group of. † Arith. From (in subtraction).
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. ii. §1 Officers chosen by the people yearly out of themselves. 1594Blundevil Exerc. i. iii. (1636) 7 Take 7 out of 14 and there remaineth 7. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. (1826) II. xi. App. ii. 116 The Jew engaged to pay one mark out of every seven that he should recover. 1883Manch. Exam. 29 Nov. 5/1 There are three..courses open to us, and out of these we have to make our choice.
2. From within (the space to which action, influence, or presence extends); from within the range of.
a1300Cursor M. 2073 Þou do þe suith out o my sight. c1425Lydg. Assembly of Gods 96 Let hym nat escape out of your daungere. 1535Coverdale 2 Chron. vii. 20 This house..wil I cast awaye out of my presence. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. v. 171 They flattered themselves they were got out of his reach. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XI. 62 Filing out of sight of the trenches.
3. From (a condition or state, bodily or mental); from one literary form (e.g. prose or verse) or one language (into another).
c1205Lay. 359 Þat he heom wolde leaden..out of þeowe⁓dome. 1390Gower Conf. I. 47 And I abreide Riht as a man doth out of slep. c1485Digby Myst. i. 197, I put the owt of dought. 1490Caxton Eneydos Colophon, The boke of Eneydos..whiche hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, And oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wylliam Caxton. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 5 Nor exclude out of his favour one that were willyng to amende. 1607J. Norden Surv. Dial. ii. 67 To bring him out of conceite with the goodness and validitie thereof. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 433 His majesty..was thought by the physicians to be out of danger. 1887Hall Caine Coleridge i. 22 The severe teacher who flogged him out of his infidelity ridiculed him out of false taste in poetry.
b. From (a post or office).
a1592Greene George a Greene Wks. 1831 II. 195, I shall be turned out of mine office. 1607Shakes. Timon i. ii. 207 Well, would I were Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out. a1904Mod. They were worried out of their professorships.
4. From (a possession, property, tenet, etc.): expressing deprivation.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xiii. 33 Sum is put owt of his possessioun. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 280 They were taken all and striped out of their armure. 1604Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 188, I haue wasted my selfe out of my meanes. 1694Atterbury Serm., Prov. xiv. 6 (1726) I. 198 To be talk'd out of their Pleasures and their Privileges. a1782Bp. Newton Dissert. xxii. Wks. II. 462 Cajoled and flattered out of their estate, out of their reputation, out of their understanding. 1875[see cheat v. 2].
5. From (a source or origin): either implying literal motion, or fig. derivation. Also of a horse, etc. in reference to its dam.
c1475Rauf Coilȝear 16 The winde blew out of the Eist. 1535Coverdale Matt. xii. 37 Out of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 119 Mahomet..came out of a base stock. 1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. iv. iii, If yow argue merely out of nature Doe yow not degenerate from that. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. iii. §10 He quotes it out of Pliny. 1816Sporting Mag. XLVIII. 185 She..was got by Midnight, out of a small well-bred mare. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent ii. x. 451 That availableness arises out of their coincidence, and out of what does that coincidence arise? 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 34 He should get money out of the Greeks before he assisted them.
b. From (something) as a cause or motive: As the result or effect of; because or by reason of, on account of.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) E vj, But wee..do binde our selues wyth certaine new lawes out of purpose. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 89 My master charg'd me to deliuer a ring to Madam Siluia: wc (out of my neglect) was neuer done. 1690Def. Rights Univ. Oxford Pref., Not only out of respect to ourselves but out of kindness to the City. 1800Wellington Let. to Lieut. Col. Close in Gurw. Desp. (1837) I. 80 As you come only out of compliment to me. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. xxxvii. 138 The crowds go for the most part out of curiosity.
c. From (the material of which a thing is made or constructed); = of 20.
1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 146 Nothing can be made out of nothing. 1764–7Lyttelton Hen. II (1771) III. iv. 94 A fort..erected out of the ruins of that most ancient city. 1842Macaulay Ess., Machiavelli (1887) 31 Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. 1866Sala Barbary 112 The feasibility of twisting a rope out of the sands of the Sahara. Mod. She made them out of old cigar⁓boxes.
†d. Arising from (in time or succession); from being (so and so), after being. Obs.
1423Jas. I Kingis Q. iv, Discryving first of his prosperitee, And out of that his infelicitee. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 58 He became a very great philosopher out of a shamefully deboist ruffian.
e. From a base in; using (a place) as a centre of operations.
1960‘E. McBain’ Give Boys Great Big Hand xii. 146 We were going to run away together... I could always get work out of Miami. 1974Publishers Weekly 24 June 56/2 Working out of Bozeman, Montana, Jack Folsom has enjoyed the help of some 60 ‘friends’. 1975Listener 27 Nov. 712/2 Marshall McLuhan still works out of a ramshackle office in a converted coach-house on the edge of the University of Toronto. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch xv. 145 He was the District Director out of Atlanta. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June 784/4 The miscellaneous radio amateurs and visionaries who worked out of shacks and garages. 1976Church Times 26 Nov. 7/4 Mrs. Briant now works out of Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral, where she has set up a ministry for shut-ins.
6. With ellipsis of verb go, or the like, esp. in imperative uses. out of (the house, etc.) with: put, or have out of (the house, etc.). Cf. out adv. 13.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 195 Þat þere mowe noon eir out þerof. 1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xx, He wille neuer oute of this countrey vntyl that he haue me ageyne. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. ii. 193 Out of my doore, you Witch, you Ragge..out, out. 1610― Temp. i. i. 29 Out of our way I say. 1656Trapp Expos. 2 Cor. x. 5 Out of doors with this Hagar. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Antiq. iv. viii. (1733) 92 It will never out of their Memories. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 71 Out of my carriage, at once, you dog!
7. from out of: see from prep. 15 c.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paulus) 400 Fra owt of grece com mony men To rowme. 1594,1789[see from prep. 15 c].
II. Of position. (Opp. to in.)
8. lit. Not within (a space or containing thing), beyond the confines of, outside.
It may express the position resulting from the motion in sense 1, or that of opposition to inward motion, or simple position with respect to a boundary.
c1350Will. Palerne 1691 Hold ȝou ouȝt of heie gates for happes, i rede. 1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 73 My mother is out of the house. 1595Shakes. John iv. i. 17 So I were out of prison, and kept Sheepe I should be merry as the day is long. 1711Steele Spect. No. 141 ⁋2 While I was out of Town, the Actors have flown in the Air. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 604 Out of British ground, it would be difficult to form an idea of the pitch to which the grievance..has been raised in England. 1860C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret ix. (1880) 260 It was the first time that Christabel had seen her out of her beplumed hat.
b. On the outer side of, outside. rare.
1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iii. iii, The bough-pots out of the window.
c. At a (specified) distance from, away from (a containing space, as a town, or the like).
1420H. Stafford in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iv. I. 66 The which Abbey ys but a lege ouȝt of Mayn. 1459Rolls of Parlt. V. 369/2 At Newcastell, but vi myle oute of Eggleshall, where the Quene and the Prynce then were. 1625A. Wheelock in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 329 He is but Four Miles dwelling out of Cambridg. 1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. IV. 215 He said that Mr. Brownjohn's villa was a little out of the road. 1863Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 154 Ealing, some seven miles out of London.
d. (Taken) from among, (occurring) among or in (a number).
Expressing the result of the motion in 1 c.
1562in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 291 Three persons owte of the xiij for the tyme beinge. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iii, Out of fourteen thousand pounds we had but four hundred remaining. 1866Sala Barbary 89 To shut up the shops one day out of the seven. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. p. xx, When one epistle out of a number is spurious.
e. out of this world: see world n.
9. Outside the local range of (some action or faculty); as, out of reach, out of sight, out of hearing, out of presence; out of one's head: out of one's mind or memory (see also head n.1 36).
c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxiii. 30 Whan man is oute of siȝt, sone he passiþ oute of mynde. a1500H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) ii. 796 So that I may stand out of daunger Of gon shot. 1712Addison Spect. No. 407 ⁋2 He is placed quite out of their hearing. a1766F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph IV. 92 Put up on a shelf..to be out of both their reaches. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park I. i. 6 She could not get her poor sister and her family out of her head. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 549 The entrance of the Zuyder Zee was out of their jurisdiction. 1882Times 12 July 5 Our gunboats..were supposed to be out of range. 1901‘L. Malet’ Hist. R. Calmady v. x. 469 Obviously it was impossible to go back. He must go on rather—out of sight, out of mind. 1912F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iv. 109 You meant to get her out of your head. 1935M. de la Roche Young Renny iv. 32 Lord, what a waist he has! Do you suppose he can put a solid meal out of sight? 1938W. de la Mare Memory 40 So gaily resigned To out-of-sight being out-of-mind.
10. Outside the limits of (something non-material which has definite bounds), as out of the Church, out of the Christian faith, out of confession, out of marriage, out of wedlock, out of apprenticeship, etc.
c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 120 Bettyr they were to be oute off lyve. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 104 Thame that ar out of the faith of Jhesu Crist. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 2 §5 Noon apprentice..[shall] pley..at the Tenys..in no wise out of Cristmas. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iii. (1577) P vij, This communication now is out of the purpose that I went about. 1565–72Cooper Thesaurus, Furto conceptus,..begotten out of maryage. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 3. 19 The Church of England is intirely out of the Dispute. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 75 There is no Time and no Space out of the mind. 1849Lingard Hist. Eng. (1855) VII. App. 277/1 Greenway..declares..that Bates never spoke one word to him on the subject, either in or out of confession.
b. Outside the bounds or sphere of, beyond (some condition of things), as out of number, out of measure, out of comparison, out of reason, out of belief, out of doubt, out of question, out of dispute, out of the common, out of the ordinary, out of the usual, etc.
a1425Cursor M. 13166 (Trin.), I aske þe nouþer hous ny londe Ny noon oþere þing out of resoun. 1535Coverdale 2 Esdras iii. 7 Of him came..people, & kynreddes out of nombre. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (1895) 22 A man doubteles owte of comparison. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 136 b, It is out of all controversie that Adam..was endued with wonderfull and absolute freedome of will. 1615Bedwell tr. Moham. Imp. i. §10 That is out of doubt true. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. iii. 94 Time out of mind. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. III. 146 His celestial history is more out of the Common. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 109 It was therefore out of the power of the government to silence the defenders of the established religion. 1893Law Times XCV. 29/2 It was expected that the meeting..would be a little out of the ordinary.
c. Not in the proper direction or track of, off the line of; having deviated from. Esp. in phrases expressing deviation or error: cf. out adv. 20 b.
1691W. Nicholls Answ. Naked Gospel 57, I am afraid he is a little out of his Chronology again. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xii, I was perfectly out of my duty. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. I. 190 ‘Upon my honour’, said the captain,..‘I am quite out of my cue here!’ 1896T. L. De Vinne Moxon's Mech. Exerc., Printing 403 Some characters must purposely be out of drawing.
d. out of it: not employed or included in (some action or affair); also, astray from the truth or ‘true inwardness’ of anything.
1830M. Edgeworth Let. 8 Dec. (1971) 442 Poor Davies Gilbert to whom the place was in every way unsuited is well out of it. I hope he thinks so. 1880Punch 25 Dec. 299/1, I was out of it, jolly clean out of it. 1884Pall Mall G. 18 June 4/1 Indeed, ‘C’ Troop..has been rather ‘out of it’ in the matter of field service. 1889Spectator 28 Dec., The ability to quit the centre of affairs, to stand ‘out of it’ without bitterness or spite. 1904H. James Golden Bowl I. i. xxi. 344 He..moved her by..taking pity..on her just discernible depression... He guessed that she felt herself, as the slang was, out of it. 1916Galsworthy Sheaf i. 15 She is simply too ‘out of it’ to know anything. 1955Times 13 Aug. 8/7 Feeling not a little out of it, we nevertheless took tea with the ladies of the parish. 1959News Chron. 10 July 3/4 Bungalow dwellers..may well have felt out of it. 1973R. Lewis Of Singular Purpose vii. 157 You're well out of it, Harry. Believe me, you're well out of it.
e. (See quots.)
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 174 Drunk: soused, out of it, stoned, bombed. 1967Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang Add. 698/1 Out of it... 3. Not concerned with mundane things, as when under the influence of a drug, obsession, all-consuming idea, etc.; in a state of euphoria. 4. Not ‘with it’; stupid; ‘square’. 1973To our Returned Prisoners of War (Office of U.S. Secretary of Defense) 8 Out of it, to be out of touch with reality when under the influence of a drug, especially hallucinogens. To lack understanding and awareness, especially in a sub⁓culture. 1973Black Panther 27 Oct. 12/3 James Jenkins..describes several inmates on ‘F’ block, who were once ‘sharp dudes’ as being ‘completely out of it’ following ‘therapeutic sedation’.
11. Not in (a physical or mental state or condition); without, free from, or destitute of (a quality, etc.).
1340Ayenb. 150 Þet..makeþ þane man al oute of wytte. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 194 Þe skyn is out of his propir colour. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. x. 207 Thei ben out of eese, whanne thei seen tho deedis..doon. 1470–85Malory Arthur iv. xxiii, Wel nyghe shee was oute of her mynde. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 170 His whole armye was quite disordered and out of aray. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. xi. (1647) 58 A froward old woman who was never out of wrangling. 1685Dryden Thren. August. 17 It took us unprepared and out of guard. a1745Swift Direct to Servants Wks. (1869) 568/1 Her mouth is out of taste. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs II. 105 Our horses being out of condition. a1904Mod. It was foolish to try it, when he was out of training.
b. Not in (use, employment, service, office, work, etc.); usually with the implication of having been, or being normally, in the condition in question. out of work, out-of-work: see work n. 27.
1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas Pref. 13 When they were out of Pay, they look'd upon themselves as their own Masters. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 155 In short these kind of pendulums are now entirely out of use. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 60/1, I was out of employment, and obliged to come here to seek it. 1812Lady Granville Lett. (1894) II. 38 Two governesses out of place. a1904Mod. Many people are now out of work and in want.
12. Having lost, parted with, or been deprived of (something previously or normally possessed); destitute of, without.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vii. 163 These English are shrowdly out of Beefe. 1601― All's Well i. iii. 42, I am out a friends Madam. 1653Z. Bogan Mirth Chr. Life 271 If they be in poverty..yet shall they not be..cleane out of cash. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1823) II. 64 He returned not long since, out of money, and out at elbows. a1845Hood Our Village 24 It's ten to one she's out of every thing you ask. 1856G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Cov. xiv, He is sadly out of wind before he reaches the first landing. 1858Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life II. 189 Furnishing sugar or vinegar to..families that found themselves unexpectedly ‘out of’ those indispensable commodities. 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird iii. 36, I hadn't a light for his cigar; Charles and I were out of matches.
13. Taken from, extracted from, derived from (spec. in giving the dam of a horse: cf. 5); † made from. In current use, both in the spec. sense, and as a fig. development of this.
a1400–50Alexander 86 Segis of many syde oute of sere remys. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. i. 15 Hee that will haue a Cake out of the Wheate, must needes tarry the grinding. 1611― Wint. T. i. ii. 122 They say it is a Coppy out of mine. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 82 The Customs out of this Sea were very great. 1711Addison Spect. No. 121 ⁋5, I shall add to this Instance out of Mr. Locke another out of the learned Dr. More. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 221 She's out of Crescent that ran a very good third for the Oaks. 1881E. D. Brickwood in Encycl. Brit. XII. 184/2 Both grandsons of Eclipse and both out of Herod mares. 1892A. W. Pinero Magistrate i. 24 You nominated yourself for the Matrimonial Stakes. Mr. Farringdon's The Widow, by Bereavement, out of Mourning. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey iii. xii. 295 The room seemed to him to have been got by a concert-hall out of a station waiting-room. 1950‘P. Woodruff’ Island of Chamba vii. 110 Their [sc. Muslims'] thought has the same pedigree as ours: by Greece out of Palestine. 1956N. Marsh Off with his Head (1957) viii. 177 Teutonic Dancer by Subsidise out of Substiteuton. 1968Listener 3 Oct. 452/2 If there were a radio stud-book, it could contain some such entry as ‘Any Questions? by After-Dinner Speaker out of Group Therapy’. 1973‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog xvi. 210 Humblebee was bred..by an imported French champion out of a mare by an Argentine quadruple-crown winner.
14. Out of is used phraseologically with many ns., as balance, breath, conceit, countenance, doubt, employ, fashion, frame, hand, heart, humour, joint, keeping, mind, order, phase, place, pocket, print, register, repair, season, sense, sorts, square, temper, time, trim, tune, use, voice, wits, work, etc.: see under the ns. themselves. When these expressions are used attributively, they become adjective phrases: see III.
III. out-of- with a n., used attrib. as an adjective phrase. When such a phrase as out of the way is used predicatively, as in ‘the place lies rather out of the way’, the elements are written apart, but when used attrib. as in ‘a curious out-of-the-way place’, the elements are hyphened and the whole becomes an adjective phrase. The number of these is indefinite. Besides the more frequent, as out-of-date, out-of-doors, out-of-fashion, out-of-time, out-of-the-way, treated among the main words, mention may be made of out-of-awareness (also as n.), out-of-balance (also as n. and v.), out-of-bounds (also as n.), out-of-breath, out-of-centre, out-of-condition, out-of-context, out-of-control (also ellipt.), out-of-elbows (erron. for out-at-elbows), out-of-employment, out-of-focus (also as n.), out-of-form, out-of-hours, out-of-humour, out-of-joint, out-of-key, out-of-livery, out-of-office, out-of-phase, out-of-place, out-of-pocket (also as ellipt.), out-of-reach, out-of-school, out-of-season, out-of-sync, out-of-the-beaten-track, out-of-the-body, out-of-the-common, out-of-the-ordinary, out-of-the-season, out-of-the-world, out-of-tune (also as ellipt.), out-of-use, out-of-wedlock, out-of-work, (also n.), etc. Sometimes derivatives are formed from these, as out-of-breathness, out-of-humourness, out-of-jointness, out-of-the-worldish, out-of-the-worldness, out-of-touchness, out-of-trueness, out-of-tuneness, out of-tunish, with catachrestic variants, as out-of-fashioned, out-of-humoured. out-of-round: see round n.; out-of-true: see true n.; out-of-truth see truth n.
1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Fall 36 When one hears the paralanguage of a speaker, one first, rapidly and *out-of-awareness, establishes the base line of the speaker. 1974Florida FL Reporter XIII. 11/2 Children work on language in an out-of-awareness situation.
1921W. S. Ibbetson Motor & Dynamo Control vi. 194 It would not be correct to balance an *out-of-balance pulley by fixing a counter-weight on the armature core. 1932R. Rawlinson in E. Molloy Pract. Electr. Engin. V. 1590/2 The function of voltage balancing on the two sides is done by a ‘3-wire balancer set’, which is designed with regard to the maximum out of balance current which the supply company considers it necessary to legislate for. 1958Listener 13 Nov. 780/1 Friction..and the slightest out-of-balance of the motor cause the axis of the gyroscope to deviate. 1967L. Holmes Odhams New Motor Manual viii. 189/2 Out-of-balance can be caused by wheel damage or brake drum eccentricity. 1968Burdett & Ellis Motor Vehicle Mechanics' Course II. xii. 284 Any ‘out-of-balance’ weight on the wheel..may give rise to a tendency to ‘throw’ the wheel up from the road and back down on to it once in every revolution of the wheel. 1974Harvey & Bohlman Stereo F.M. Radio Handbk. v. 119 In this type of detector..the setting of R4 is arranged to out-of-balance the signal currents in Q19 and Q22.
1857T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 219 Many of the old wild *out-of-bounds habits stuck to them as firmly as ever. 1895Pall Mall G. 15 Oct. 9/1 That long and perilous hole between the out-of-bounds field on the one side and the broken, rabbit-burrowed ground on the other. 1947M. Lowry Let. 24 July (1967) 150 Into what roughs, out-of-bounds and quagmires we shall get ere the book be finished..one knows not. 1973Guardian 21 May 22/3 The long sixteenth, a treacherous hole into the wind with an out-of-bounds lurking on left.
1939G. Greene 19 Stories (1947) 156 Low *out-of-breath tones.
1900E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth 98 His snorts of *out-of-breathness could be heard for miles.
1972C. Fremlin Appointment with Yesterday xi. 85 She should have realised that her middle-aged, *out-of-condition body would..rebel. 1977F. Branston Up & Coming Man xiii. 133 A puffy, out-of-condition young man.
1951Mind LX. 91 The unused, *out-of-context sentence specifies no speaker. 1973R. Ludlum Matlock Paper ii. 16 Rumor; out-of-context statements..; constructed evidence.
1961Daily Mail 20 July 9/8 His *out-of-control tractor plunged 20 ft. into the River Nar. 1974H. L. Foster Ribbin' vii. 321 Most workers have strong feelings against intervening physically with a child's out-of-control behavior. 1974G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies vii. 104 Finally the out-of-control twisting of the boat eased. 1977O.D. No. 3. 9/1 The circumstances of our interview with Schmidt were curious, weird, if not verging on the out-of-control.
1897Westm. Gaz. 20 May 5/3 When one looks at these *out-of-elbow men slouching along.
1890Murray's Mag. Aug. 230 An air of decadence, almost of *out-of-elbowness.
1898Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 8/2 *Out-of-employment claims rose from {pstlg}441..in 1896 to {pstlg}710 last year.
1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 48 Persons who admire *out-of-focus art. 1946Nature 30 Nov. 786/1 Thus any error in magnification due to slight out-of-focus in one camera was compensated by the other. 1962L. S. Sasieni Princ. & Pract. Optical Dispensing xii. 303 From this we see the extent of the out-of-focus region. 1966D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. 29 The out-of-focus image of the specimen surface. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset xi. 160 Slight out-of-focus and gentle vibration of the front of the camera during exposure are ‘dodges’ also used.
1961Times 27 Dec. 4/1 Parfitt..must now have a chance of gaining his first Test cap in place of the *out-of-form M. J. K. Smith. 1977South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 22 July 18/5 Rick McCosker, Australia's out-of-form opener, boosted his chances of retaining his place for the third cricket Test against England next week with a fighting 77 against Warwickshire yesterday.
1967Guardian 3 Aug. 3/7 A scheme for *out-of-hours deliveries in Greater London. 1977Times 9 Sept. 2/3 An out-of-hours repair service for customers.
1675Wycherley Country Wife ii. i, Every raw, peevish, *out-of-humoured, affected..fop.
1803W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 441 Much allowance is due to Burnett's *out-of-humourness.
1899Westm. Gaz. 13 June 4/3 That it is a ‘cursed spite’ which sets him to remedy the *out-of-joint time.
1962Times 17 Jan. 13/1 The..slightly *out-of-key episode with the travelling salesman. 1976‘J. Fraser’ Who steals my Name? vii. 89 A tiny little oddness, one of those strange out-of-key facts a policeman is trained to spot.
1846Ecclesiologist V. 142 *Out-of-livery servants might be admitted.
1961Times 4 Sept. 5/1 His *out-of-office activities as a dosshouse owner. 1973‘W. Haggard’ Old Masters i. 11 An out-of-office politician.
1938L. F. Blume Transformer Engin. xiv. 369 It would be of no advantage to introduce a circulating current having an *out-of-phase component. 1968C. G. Kuper Introd. Theory Superconductivity iv. 65 The real part and the imaginary part of the dielectric constant respectively relate the in-phase and out-of-phase parts of the displacement to the electric field. 1974Country Life 26 Dec. 1997/3 A smaller telescope..would still be an out-of-place intrusion on the landscape.
1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Roast Pig, I blamed my..*out-of-place hypocrisy of goodness.
1885Law Times Rep. LII. 545/1 The plaintiffs..incurred various *out-of-pocket expenses. 1902G. B. Shaw Let. 22 Oct. (1972) II. 284 Actual out-of-pocket loss. 1971D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. iii. 67 It is unlikely that prices will be cut below out-of-pocket costs. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus ix. 182, I said that..I would be willing to cover his out-of-pocket expenses if he'd join the expedition to help us with our work. 1973‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog vii. 92 He was to be paid {pstlg}15,000 in used notes, for his own pay-off and his out-of-pocket.
1891M. O'Rell Frenchm. in Amer. 318 As one might gaze at some coveted but *out-of-reach fruit.
1867J. W. Hales in Farrar Ess. Lib. Educ. 308 Pupils who enjoyed so few *out-of-school advantages. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 26 July 329/3 Organizational activities are relegated to out-of-school hours. 1959Times 20 Jan. 9/3 The result is to be seen in those out-of-school activities which may land them in the juvenile courts. 1970G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All xix. 217 One of Mrs. Jay's out-of-school jobs was keeping pigs.
1900Westm. Gaz. 27 July 5/3 Never..has there been such an *out-of-season demand for domestic fuel. 1944M. Laski Love on Supertax ii. 12 Lack of..out-of-season fruits. 1955Times 3 May 4/2 Permission has been given by the Rugby Union for the Coventry team to play an out-of-the-season game. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 41 (Advt.), Details of the January out-of-season discounts are now available from your New Holland Dealer. 1966Listener 24 Nov. 783/3 A boy, bored and neglected, at an out-of-season hotel.
1948Proc. IRE XXXVI. 904/1 The effect would be to prolong excessively the *out-of-sync condition whenever a discontinuity occurred in the transmitted sync signal. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xxiv. 301 The hectic, ‘out-of-sync’ short, The Jazz Dance, was filmed in one evening. 1967Listener 21 Sept. 380/1, I rather miss the deliciously ludicrous sight of a singer trying to catch up with his own voice, like an out-of-sync film. 1977New Yorker 25 July 19/3 Rumbles of thunder interspersed the lightning flashes in belated, out-of-sync fashion.
1946G. N. M. Tyrrell Personality of Man vii. xxii. 199 These *out-of-the-body cases are of exceptional interest. It is worth pointing out that in two such cases..the percipients describe the process of getting out of their bodies in almost identical terms. 1969New Scientist 3 July 33/2 Old wives tales..such as spontaneous telepathy, out-of-the-body experiences or poltergeists.
1890Hatton By Order of Czar (1891) 91 She..was a pleasant, cultured, odd, *out-of-the-common hostess.
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Oct. 788/1 A disturbing..absolutely *out-of-the ordinary life-story. 1974Times 9 Nov. 12/5 Andorra..has caught the imagination of many skiers looking for an out-of-the-ordinary holiday.
1775A. Grant Lett. fr. Mount. (1807) I. xxiv. 188 My *out of the world education. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. iv. 127 Living in such an out-of-the-world place.
1895Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. Ser. ii. 103 De Quincey was still more bookish and *out-of-the-worldly.
1876H. Sidgwick Let. 24 Aug. in A. & E. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1906) 323 There is a great charm in this scenery and in the feeling of *out-of-the-world-ness. 1916D. H. Lawrence Let 9 Jan. (1932) 306 But come and see us here, because of the sea and the silence and peace and the out-of-the-worldness of it all. 1957M. Stewart Thunder on Right iii. 38 The out-of-the-worldness of the place pressed heavily upon her.
1952M. Lowry Let. May (1967) 317 The essential..points are too often clouded as a result of the technical *out-of-touchness of the writing. 1960Guardian 21 July 8/4 ‘Out-of-touchness’ has produced a fervent desire for recognition.
1921Spectator 26 Feb. 268/2 When you start your wall there seems by eye very little or nothing wrong with it, but when you have got it up some thirty or forty feet the *out-of-trueness is appalling.
1803H. Wynne Diary 6 July (1940) III. 83 A beautifull *out of tune Symphony, consisting of hair⁓dressers, butchers, &c. opened the play. 1917T. S. Eliot Prufrock 20 The voice returns like the insistent out-of-tune Of a broken violin. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 129 A little out of tune orchestra was playing. 1977J. Wainwright Day of Peppercorn Kill 125 Somebody was whistling an out-of-tune version of Sleepy-Time Gal.
1789Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ld. B. & Eunuch Wks. 1792 III. 112 Now came an *out-of-tunish note.
1900R. Broughton Foes in Law xx. 291 Her tone expresses such utter *out-of-tuneness that he looks at her, startled.
1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ix. 129 Some Irish girls emigrate briefly to give birth to *out-of-wedlock babies. 1972Guardian 22 July 5/7 A single woman experiencing an out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
1887National Rev. Mar. 63 *Out-of-work and sick allowances. 1888Pall Mall G. 25 Aug. 1/1 To provide employment for the out-o'-works. |