1. exit(n = noun.artifact) issue, outlet, way out - an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"
is a kind of opening
has particulars: outfall
Derived form verb exit1
2. exit(n = noun.event) departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release - euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
is a kind of death, decease, expiry
Derived form verb exit3
3. exit(n = noun.act) Array - the act of going out; Array
is a kind of departure, going, going away, leaving
Derived form verb exit1
1. exit(v = verb.motion) get out, go out, leave - move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"
is one way to move
Antonym: enter
Derived forms noun exit3, noun exit1
Sample sentences:
The men exit the boat
2. exit(v = verb.competition) Array - lose the lead; Array
is one way to play
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
3. exit(v = verb.change) buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
is one way to change state, turn
Derived form noun exit2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth. [1913 Webster]
" The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors." [1913 Webster]
1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part. [1913 Webster]
"They have their exits and their entrances." [1913 Webster]
2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit. [1913 Webster]
"Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death." [1913 Webster]
3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out. [1913 Webster]
"Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits."
exit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a passage or door by which to leave a room, building, etc.
2 a the act of going out. b the right to go out.
3 a place where vehicles can leave a motorway or major road.
4 the departure of an actor from the stage.
5 death.
--v.intr. (exited, exiting)
1 go out of a room, building, etc.
2 (as a stage direction) (an actor) leaves the stage (exit Macbeth).
3 die.
Idiom:
exit permit (or visa etc.) authorization to leave a particular country.
Etymology:
L, 3rd sing. pres. of exire go out (as EX-(1), ire go): cf. L exitus going out
N departure, decession, decampment, embarkation, outset, start, removal, exit, exodus, hejira, flight, leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista, stirrup cup, valedictorian, starting point, starting post, point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation, port of embarkation, airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport, departing, valedictory, outward bound, whence, hence, thence, with a foot in the stirrup, on the wing, on the move, Int, begone!, farewell!, adieu!, goodbye!, good day!, au revoir!, fare you well!, God bless you!, God speed!, all aboard!, auf wiedersehen!, au plaisir de vous revoir!, bon voyage!, gluckliche Reise!, vive valeque!.
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.
N disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, occultation, departure, exit, vanishing point, dissolving views, disappearing, evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, gone, Int, vanish!, disappear!, avaunt!, get lost!, get out of here.