exit
see also: EXIT
Pronunciation Etymology 1
EXIT
Etymology
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see also: EXIT
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus, from exeō + -tus.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Nounexit (plural exits)
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- Synonyms: egress, outgoing
- Antonyms: entrance, entry, ingoing, ingress
- He made his exit at the opportune time.
- (specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene vii], page 194 ↗, column 1:
- All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, meerely Players; / They haue their Exits and their Entrances, / And one man in his time playes many parts, / His Acts being ſeuen ages.
- A way out.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- Synonyms: outgang, outway
- Antonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, ingang, ingress, portal
- emergency exit fire exit
- He was looking for the exit and got lost.
- She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.
- (road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- (figuratively, often, euphemistic) The act of departing from life; death.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:death
- the untimely exit of a respected politician
- 1711 August 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, August 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 133; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC ↗, page 199 ↗:
- However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men.
- The spelling has been modernized.
- French: sortie
- German: Abtritt, Abwanderung, Austritt, Ausstieg
- Italian: uscita
- Portuguese: saída
- Russian: вы́ход
- Spanish: salida, partida
- French: sortie, issue
- German: Ausweg, Ausfahrt, Ausgang
- Italian: uscita
- Portuguese: saída
- Russian: вы́ход
- Spanish: salida, exida
exit (exits, present participle exiting; simple past and past participle exited)
- (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- Antonyms: arrive, come, enter, ingress
- (theatre) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Desdemona exits stage left.
- (intransitive, often, euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:die
- (ambitransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
- (transitive, originally, US, also, figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- Antonyms: enter
- (bridge, intransitive) To give up the lead.
- 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 173:
- West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.
- French: sortir
- German: abgehen, ausgehen, aussteigen, hinausgehen, verschwinden
- Italian: uscire
- Portuguese: deixar, sair
- Russian: выходи́ть
- Spanish: partir, salir, exir
Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō; see further at etymology 1 above.
Verb(intransitive, drama, also, figuratively) Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage. - Synonyms: exeat
- c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC ↗, Act III, scene iv, signature [E4], verso ↗:
- I take no mony, but good vvords, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie].
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iii], page 288 ↗, column 2:
- A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare.
EXIT
Etymology
Chosen for relation to exit.
Nounexit
- (medicine) Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment: a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression.
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