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单词 come out
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come out

phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come

(SOCIAL EVENT)

UK to go somewhere with someone for a social event:

Would you like to come out for a drink sometime?

More examples

  • Can Adam come out to play?
  • Jenny came out with us last night.
  • We can never persuade Alan to come out.
  • Would you like to come out with us some time?

(BE PUBLISHED)

B1 If a book, record, film, etc. comes out, it becomes available for people to buy or see:

When does their new album come out?

More examples

  • My novel is coming out in paperback next spring.
  • Their new album came out last week.
  • The movie is coming out this summer.
  • When his book came out, he found himself splashed all over the press.

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Available and accessible

  • accessible
  • at your command idiom
  • availability
  • available
  • be there for sb idiom
  • beg
  • bookable
  • come
  • hand
  • nothing
  • on hand idiom
  • on stream idiom
  • on/about your person idiom
  • open (sth) up
  • person
  • ready
  • ready-made
  • release
  • vacant
  • vacant possession

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(APPEAR)

B1 When the sun, moon, or stars come out, they appear in the sky:

The clouds finally parted and the sun came out.

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Appearing & disappearing

  • act
  • bubble up
  • come up
  • conjure
  • creep
  • disappear off the face of the earth idiom
  • do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
  • drain
  • emerge
  • erupt
  • evaporate
  • face
  • form
  • manifestation
  • melt
  • pop
  • puff
  • pull
  • pull sth up
  • woodwork

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(BECOME KNOWN)

C2 If something comes out, it becomes known publicly after it has been kept secret:

After her death, it came out that she'd lied about her age.
When the truth came out, there was public outrage.

B2 If information, results, etc. come out, they are given to people:

The exam results come out in August.

C2 to tell people that you are gay, often after having kept this secret for some time

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Revealing secrets & becoming known

  • (the) word is/gets out idiom
  • bare
  • be the talk of the town idiom
  • break cover idiom
  • cat
  • dob sb in
  • fink
  • get around (somewhere)
  • give sth away
  • King's evidence
  • leak
  • let the cat out of the bag idiom
  • open your heart to someone idiom
  • sneak
  • spill the beans idiom
  • take the wraps off sth idiom
  • tell on sb
  • tongues wagging idiom
  • turn
  • unmask

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Announcing, informing & stating

(RESULT)

[ + adv/prep or adjective ] to be in a certain condition or to achieve something at the end of a process or activity:

She came out of the divorce settlement a rich woman.
These figures have come out wrong! I don't understand it.
Your painting has come out really well.
He hasn't exactly come out of the scandal with his reputation enhanced.

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Coming to an end

  • come off
  • come off sth
  • come to a full stop idiom
  • come to a head idiom
  • come to sth
  • come to the end of the road idiom
  • dry up
  • fizzle
  • go out (of) the window idiom
  • head
  • land
  • land up
  • lapse
  • let
  • let up
  • peter
  • road
  • run
  • the sun sets on sth idiom
  • wind up

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(BE REMOVED)

C2 If dirt or a mark comes out, it disappears from something when it is cleaned:

Did the red wine stain come out?

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Cleaning generally

  • brush sb/sth off
  • cleaner
  • cleaning
  • cleanse
  • cleansing
  • decontaminate
  • groom
  • purification
  • purify
  • rinse sth out
  • scour
  • scrub
  • sluice
  • sluice sth down/out
  • sponge
  • sweep
  • wash (sth) out
  • wipe
  • wipe sth down
  • wipe sth up

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(PHOTO)

If a photo or part of a photo comes out, the picture can be seen clearly:

The photos didn't come out because the room was so dark.
He's in the picture, but his face hasn't come out very clearly.

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Photography

  • airbrush
  • aperture
  • camera
  • camera obscura
  • camera-shy
  • capture
  • high-resolution
  • hologram
  • holography
  • kinetoscope
  • lo-res
  • negative
  • say cheese idiom
  • selfie
  • sharp
  • shoot
  • shutter
  • slide
  • SLR camera
  • snapshot

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(GIVE OPINION)

[ + adv/prep ] to express an opinion:

In the survey politicians came out overwhelmingly in favour of capital punishment.
Some of the members supported the changes, but the majority came out against.

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Expressing and asking opinions

  • apothegm
  • ask
  • couch
  • day
  • editorialize
  • far
  • for my money idiom
  • pronounce
  • propound
  • put
  • put yourself across
  • remark
  • run
  • run sth by sb
  • screed
  • soapbox
  • sound off
  • stake
  • talk
  • talk sth over

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(BE SAID)

C2 If something you say comes out in a particular way, that is how you say it:

I didn't mean to be rude - it just came out like that.
When I tried to tell her that I loved her it came out all wrong.

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Ways of talking

  • -mouthed
  • babel
  • blab
  • blather
  • croon
  • declamatory
  • drone
  • drone on
  • hold the floor idiom
  • lyrical
  • meanderings
  • rabbit
  • rabbit on
  • sink to a whisper idiom
  • tattle
  • telegrammatic
  • throw
  • waffle
  • whisper
  • yap

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(STOP WORK)

UK If workers come out, they stop working because of a disagreement:

The postal workers have come out in support of their pay claim.

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Industrial action

  • abstain
  • blackleg
  • cooling-off period
  • demarcation dispute
  • direct action
  • job action
  • lightning strike
  • lock
  • lock sb out
  • lockout
  • pay claim
  • picket
  • strike
  • strike pay
  • strikebound
  • strikebreaker
  • sympathy
  • walk
  • walk out
  • walkout

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(OPEN)

When flowers come out, they open:

Daffodils come out in spring.

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Flowers - general words

  • -petalled
  • abscission
  • be in blossom idiom
  • bloom
  • catkin
  • come
  • double
  • ear
  • efflorescence
  • floral
  • flowery
  • head
  • in flower idiom
  • may
  • petal
  • photosynthesis
  • root
  • rosebud
  • sepal
  • stigma

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