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give out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. emit, give out, give offverb

    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. distribute, give out, hand out, pass outverb

    give to several people

    "The teacher handed out the exams"

  3. fail, run out, give outverb

    prove insufficient

    "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

  4. fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break downverb

    stop operating or functioning

    "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

Wiktionary

  1. give outverb

    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)

  2. give outverb

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

  3. give outverb

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

  4. give outverb

    to issue; to distribute

  5. give outverb

    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

  6. give outverb

    (Ireland, idiomatic). To complain, sulk, chastise.

ChatGPT

  1. give out

    To "give out" generally means to distribute or provide something to a group of people. It can also refer to a situation where something stops working or functioning due to exhaustion or breakdown, commonly used in reference to machinery or body parts.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of give out in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of give out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of give out in a Sentence

  1. Soeng Sen Karuna:

    They don't give out a lot of information.

  2. Coco Gauff:

    The one thing you did... you didn't give out no free points on her damn serve, coco Gauff can't curse.

  3. Richard Overton:

    I may give out, but I'll never give up.

  4. Flora Edwards:

    In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

  5. Yasiri Valle:

    We try to cook rice at least once a week, give out a little bit of protein in every meal, so that the children can gain some strength, but it's hard.


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