out ofとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊt əv/, (before a consonant usually) /ˈaʊtə/

前置詞

out of

1. Expressing motion away, literal or figurative; opposed to into.
   1. From the inside to the outside of. [from 5th c.]

      The audience came out of the theater.

      The cat is out of the cage.

      He ate out of a big bowl.

   2. So as no longer to be in a given condition or state. [from 10th c.]

      I have fallen out of love with you.

      They will soon be out of business.

      This train will be going out of service at the next station.

   3. (informal) From a thing or or place as a source, place of origin etc. [from 12th c.]

      Turns out he's some rapper out of New York called Buster Bigmouth.

      • 1997, New York, volume 30, number 31, page 33:

        Mike Morgillo, a cop out of the Bronx borough command — who is married to a detective — says he's sick of sitting around other cops' backyards hearing the same old he-shot, she-shot stories.

   4. (nautical) Stating the port in which a boat has been registered.

      There's the Titanic out of Liverpool.

   5. Taken from among; expressing a fraction of (a larger number). [from 15th c.]

      Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease.

      Out of the entire class, only Cynthia completed the work.

      • 2007 September 27, Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood, written by Paul Thomas Anderson, distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:

        Out of all men beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen.

   6. (now chiefly horse breeding) Born from a given mother (cf. by). [from 19th c.]

      She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.

2. Expressing position outside, literal or figurative; opposed to in.
   1. Not within a given space, area etc. [from 10th c.]

      His feet rested out of the water.

      Is your mother out of hospital?

   2. Not in (a given state, condition). [from 13th c.]

      I'm rather out of practice right now.

      He cannot see you because he's feeling out of spirits today.

   3. Without; no longer in possession of. [from 15th c.]

      Sorry, we're out of bread.

      • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Barnes & Noble, published 2005, page 276:

        Once out of the farm the approach of poverty would be sure.

3. From a given cause or motivation. [from 13th c.]

   I laughed out of embarrassment.

   She only did it out of love for him.

   She asked the question out of mere curiosity.

4. From a given material as means of construction. [from 14th c.]

   It's made out of pure mahogany.

同意語

• exterior to (2)
• external to (2, 3)
• outside of (2, 3)
• without (Scotland) (3)
• (expressing a fraction または a ratio): from, of, for

派生語

• (having come out of): out of nowhere
• (Not part of): out of reach