out of meaning
EN- PrepositionPREout-
- From the inside to the outside of; having emerged from.
- The audience came out of the theater.
- The cat is out of the bag
- Not part of.
- This is out of my area of expertise.
- With the motivation of.
- I give money to charity out of pity.
- She asked the question out of mere curiosity.
- Without; no longer in possession of; not having more; divested of.
- Sorry, we're out of bread.
- Not in a customary or desired state.
- They will soon be out of business.
- This train will be going out of service at the next station.
- Expressing a fraction or a ratio.
- Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease
- Out of the entire class, only Cynthia completed the work.
- (nautical) Stating the port in which a boat has been registered.
- There's the Titanic out of Liverpool.
- From the inside to the outside of; having emerged from.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- ...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures...
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
- He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Out of her early struggles well inspired / To localize heroic acts
- Out of the entire class, only Cynthia completed the work.
- Out of a pool of twenty applicants, only 3 made the cut.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of out of in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Phrases
- Phrasal prepositions
- Phrasal prepositions
- Prepositions
- Phrasal prepositions
- Phrasal prepositions
- Phrases
- en out of it
- en out of gas
- en out of fix
- en out of true
- en out of tune
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "out of" is a phrase, more specifically, a phrasal preposition. It's also a preposition, more specifically, a phrasal preposition.