come out
(SOCIAL EVENT)
UK to go somewhere with someone for a social event:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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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:
B2 If information, results, etc. come out, they are given to people:
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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(RESULT)
[ + adv/prep or adjective ] to be in a certain condition or to achieve something at the end of a process or activity:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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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