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Definition: All Out |
All OutVerb1. Come forth or out; "You stick the coins in, but they come out again"; "His hair and teeth fell out". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: All OutSynonyms: come out (v), pop out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground. |
Error | In error, under an error; Noun: mistaken; Verb: tripping; Verb: out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray; (at fault); on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: All Out |
| English words defined with "all out": collectively, conjointly ♦ jointly ♦ put together ♦ To run out, together. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "all out": Care killed the Cat ♦ To CAROUSE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oops, I'm all out of piddies (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) 'We're all out of cornflakes (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) looks like we're all out of beer (Dazed and Confused; writing credit: Richard Linklater.) Fantastic that you could figure that all out and lie that down on her so you could come up with a way to get your toast (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) His wife is 45 minutes late getting home, his television set isn't working properly, and he's all out of lunch meat (The Last Episode; writing credit: David Giammarco; Jeff Cowan) | |
Lyrics | To get it all out what's in my head (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes) Now we're all out in the open (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) Y'all gon' make me go all out (Party Up; performing artist: DMX) Is in us figuring it all out (Don't Turn Off The Lights; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias) He must have let us all out to play (Praying For Time; performing artist: George Michael) | |
Movie/TV Titles | All Out for 'V' (1942) 1914 All Out (1987) | |
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![]() | Russia all out to defeat Germany in 1942--radioed pictures. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The four freedoms. All out for defense is this Eastern steel mill. The furnaces are running twenty-four hours a day as American labor and American industry cooperate in the greatest armament effort of all time. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Production. Submarine chasers. Pleasure craft give way to Navy construction. Scale model of the last sailboat built at an Eastern yard now making subchasers and other Navy boats is stored away as the company goes all out for war production. Marine Constru. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Thurston, master magician all out of a hat. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Don't be a hold out, you go all out and life will not hold-out on you. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Half a minute brought it all out. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | I said, `I would like to say that it is a very great pleasure, honor and privilege for me to open this bridge, but I can't because my lying circuits are all out of commission |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | When the meat was all out of the frying pan she poured a little of the grease on each plate |
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Expressions using "all out": all out and out ♦ all out of effort ♦ be all out ♦ be all out for smth. ♦ go all out ♦ go all out to do smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
all out winner apparel | 35 |
all out | 27 |
all out of love jagged edge | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "all out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | total (aggregate, all up, summation, tot, total, totality, utter), tërësor (complete, comprehensive, dyed in the wool, thorough), i plotë (big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), i përgjithshëm (appellative, blanket, common, ecumenical, general, generic, overall, public, sketchy, universal), gjithëpërfshirës (all-embracing, comprehensive, extensive, inclusive, sweeping). (various references) | |
Arabic | كل جهد, كامل (absolute, complete, completed, concluded, consummate, entire, essential, finalized, finished, full, full blown, full scale, integral, integrate, out and out, outright, perfect, plenary, plumb, rounded off, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter, whole), بقصارى جهده, بسرعة فائقة (at full pelt, at full tilt), بذل قصارى الجهد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цялостен (across the board, all around, complete, intact, integral, integrate, mass, organic, overall, radical, teetotal, thorough, total, whole), с все сили (at full tilt), с всички средства, с настървение, пълен (absolute, alive, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog). (various references) | |
Czech | totální (absolute, blank, hopeless, total, utter, wholesale), s nejvìtším úsilím, maximální (maximal, ultimate, utmost), bezvýhradný (unconditional, unqualified, unreserved, wholehearted). (various references) | |
Finnish | yrittää parastaan (do one's best, go all out, take pains). (various references) | |
French | tout de suite. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקיף (all inclusive, circumscribed, comprehensive, embracing, extensive, overall, surrounding, sweeping), כולו (mere, throughout), במ"ירות מרבית (at full pelt, full speed, full tilt, posthaste), באפיסת כוחות (on his last legs), בכל "כח (all out of effort, hammer and tongs). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teljes erõvel (amain). (various references) | |
Italian | totale (absolute, all, blank, complete, entire, gross, integral, overall, sheer, sound, summation, total, utter, whole), completo (absolute, all, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, unabridged, utter, whole). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気張る (to go all out, to strain or exert oneself), 出払う (to be all out), 出尽す (to be all out, to exhaust), 出尽くす (to be all out, to exhaust), 一所懸命 (all out effort, desperately, for dear life, frantically, very hard, with all one's might, with utmost effort). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きばる (to go all out, to strain or exert oneself), でつくす (to be all out, to exhaust), ではらう (to be all out), いっしょけ"めい (all out effort, desperately, for dear life, frantically, very hard, with all one's might, with utmost effort). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allay outay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | total (absolute, all-out, all-purpose, amount, entire, entirety, gross, integer, number, outright, overall, plenary, run-down, sheer, sum, summation, teetotal, through and through, tot, total, universal, utter, whole), completo (absolute, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole), completamente (absolutely, all, altogether, bodily, bolt, broad, clear, completely, consummately, directly, downright, entirely, exactly, fairly, full, fully, jolly, outright, overall, plenty, plumb, precious, quite, thoroughly, through, throughout, up, utterly, wholly). (various references) | |
Romanian | total (absolute, blank, complete, completely, count, crass, dead, entire, exclusive, gross, inclusive, outright, perfectly, quite, sum, thorough, total, totally, unmitigated, utter, utterly, whole, wholly), hotãrâtor (conclusive, crucial, decisive, determinative, final, weighty), din rãsputeri (amain, lustily, with all his might), complet (absolute, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole), închidem. (various references) | |
Russian | уставший (all in, rundown, sick), тотальный (all-out), выдохшийся (all in, fizzled out, washed out, washed up), напряженный (constrained, ding-dong, highly strung, intense, strained, strenuous, tense, uptight, wrought up), массированный, полный (absolute, abysmal, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter), изнурительный (back-breaking, exhausting, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, tiring, wasting, wearisome), идущий напролом (thoroughgoing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | totalan (total), bezrezervan. (various references) | |
Spanish | acérrimo (die hard, hot, out and out, stalwart, very strong), a toda velocidad (at a rare bat, at full pelt, at full speed, at full tilt, at top speed, in full steam), a fondo (in depth, thoroughly), supremo (commander in chief, paramount, supreme, top), máximo (full, high, maximal, maximum, possible, top), incondicional para (outright, solid), con todas las fuerzas, completamente (all, altogether, blankly, clearly, completely, consummately, dead, downright, entirely, fairly, flat, full, fully, holus-bolus, Plumb, properly, quite, right, sheer, thoroughly, through, through and through, up to the hilt). (various references) | |
Swedish | fullständig (absolute, all-out, clean, complete, congenital, dead, entire, exhaustive, full, full scale, out and out, outright, perfect, plenary, rank, stark, teetotal, total, unmitigated). (various references) | |
Turkish | yorgun (all in, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), yanılmış, tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), tüm gücünü kullanan, elinden geleni yapan, elinden gelen (one's best, one's damnedest, one's level best, one's worst), bitkin (all in, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), bütün (aggregate, all, all over the, altogether, at all, clear, complement, complete, continuum, entire, entirely, every, everything, gross, holo-, integral, omni-, one and only, out and out, overall, pan-, quite, round, sheer, solid, the total, the whole, total, totality, unbroken, undivided, utter, whole, wholly), şaşırmış (all at sea, amazed, at a loss, baffled, bewildered, blank, confounded, confused, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стомлений (all in, aweary, beat, beaten, done, irked, run down, spent, tired, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked, worn out), сповна (in full measure), цілковитий (absolute, abysmal, crass, dense, exquisite, orbicular, out and out, outright, pure, right-down, teetotal), цілком (absolutely, all, all in all, all of, altogether, at all, bodily, broad, clean, clear, completely, duly, en bloc, entirely, fairly, full, fully, hollow, nicely, outright, perfectly, pure, purely, quite, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wholly), всеохоплюючий (overall), виснажливий (back breaking, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, killing, tiring, wasteful, wasting, wearisome), знесилений (bleeding, careworn, drooping, effete, far gone, harassed, overcome), загальний (aggregate, appellative, blanket, collective, common, general, generic, generical, global, net, nominal, overall, pandemic, universal), з усіх сіл, з остатніх сил, повністью, повний (absolute, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 10, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai otan ta idia probata ekbalh emprosqen autwn poreuetai kai ta probata autw akolouqei oti oidasin thn fwnhn autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum proprias oves emiserit ante eas vadit et oves illum sequuntur quia sciunt vocem eius |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ænd þonne he hys agene scep læt ut.he gæð be-foran heom. & þa scep hym felgiað.for-þan þe hyo ge-cnaweð hys stefne. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hath don out his owne scheep, he goith bifor hem, and the scheep suen hym; for thei knowun his vois. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when he hath sent forthe his awne shepe he goeth before them and the shepe folowe him: for they knowe his voyce. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice. |
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| Language | John Chapter 10, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa madala na niya sa gawas ang tanan nga iyang kaugalingon, siya molakaw nga magauna kanila, ug kaniya magasunod ang mga karnero, kay sila makasabut man sa iyang tingog. |
| Croatian | A kad sve svoje izvede, pred njima ide i ovce idu za njim jer poznaju njegov glas. |
| Danish | Og når han har ført alle sine egne Får ud, går han foran dem; og Fårene følge ham, fordi de kende hans Røst. |
| Dutch | En wanneer hij zijn schapen uitgedreven heeft, zo gaat hij voor hen heen; en de schapen volgen hem, overmits zij zijn stem kennen. |
| Finnish | Ja laskettuaan kaikki omansa ulos hän kulkee niiden edellä, ja lampaat seuraavat häntä, sillä ne tuntevat hänen äänensä. |
| French | Lorsqu`il a fait sortir toutes ses propres brebis, il marche devant elles; et les brebis le suivent, parce qu`elles connaissent sa voix. |
| German | Und wenn er seine Schafe hat ausgelassen, geht er vor ihnen hin, und die Schafe folgen ihm nach; denn sie kennen seine Stimme. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè li fin fè yo tout soti, li mache devan yo; tout mouton yo swiv li paske yo konnen vwa li. |
| Hungarian | És mikor kiereszti az õ juhait, elõttök megy; és a juhok követik õt, mert ismerik az õ hangját. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah domba-domba itu dibawa ke luar, gembala itu berjalan di depan, dan domba-domba itu mengikuti dia sebab mereka mengenal suaranya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila sudah ia mengeluarkan segala dombanya itu, berjalanlah ia dahulu, dan domba-domba itu pun mengikut dia, sebab segala domba itu mengenal suaranya. |
| Italian | E quando ha condotto fuori tutte le sue pecore, cammina innanzi a loro, e le pecore lo seguono, perché conoscono la sua voce. |
| Maori | A ka oti ana ake hipi te tuku ki waho, ka haere ia i mua i a ratou, ka aru nga hipi i a ia: e matau ana hoki ratou ki tona reo. |
| Norwegian | Når han har fått alle sine får ut, går han foran dem, og fårene følger ham, fordi de kjenner hans røst; |
| Portuguese | Depois de conduzir para fora todas as que lhe pertencem, vai adiante delas, e as ovelhas o seguem, porque conhecem a sua voz; |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce wi -a scos toate oile, merge knaintea lor; wi oile merg dupq el, pentrucq ki cunosc glasul. |
| Shuar | Tura Ashí ni murikrin jiir émtuki wéawai. Muriksha ni chichamen ántuiniak untsuam nemarainiawai. |
| Spanish | Y cuando saca fuera a todas las suyas, va delante de ellas; y las ovejas le siguen, porque conocen su voz. |
| Swahili | Akisha watoa nje huwatangulia mbele nao kondoo humfuata, kwani wanaijua sauti yake. |
| Swedish | Och när han har släppt ut alla sina får, går han framför dem, och fåren följa honom, ty de känna hans röst. |
| Uma | Kanakeni-ra hilou hi mali-na omea, mako' meri'ulu-i ngkai bima-na, pai' bima-na mpotuku' -i, apa' ra'inca mpetonoi libu' -na. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: allot, atoll. | |
-2 letters: alto, auto, lota, lout, olla, tall, tola, toll, tolu. | |
-3 letters: all, alt, lat, lot, oat, out, tao, tau, uta. | |
-4 letters: al, at, la, lo, ta, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fallout, outfall. | |
+2 letters: fallouts, loathful, lobulate, loculate, locustal, outfalls, thallous, ultralow. | |
+3 letters: botulinal, lobulated, lotusland, pollutant, ultracold, ultracool, ultraslow, ululation. | |
+4 letters: absolutely, allocution, altocumuli, boastfully, buttonball, calculator, eucalyptol, flocculant, flocculate, leucoplast, lobulation, lotuslands, multifocal, multimodal, multipolar, pollutants, prothallus, smallmouth, subtotally, ululations. | |
+5 letters: allocutions, altocumulus, autosomally, buttonballs, calculation, calculators, conflictual, continually, cupellation, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, flocculants, flocculated, flocculates, flocculator, illuminator, illustrator, illuviation, leucoplasts, lobulations, multinomial, nocturnally, noncultural, outcavilled, outrivalled, prothallium, pullulation, rambouillet, ratatouille, smallmouths, sublittoral, subtotalled, ultraviolet, unallocated, unpolitical, valuational, voluntarily. | |
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