Tra từ go out - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

go out phrasal verb [ goes out going out went out gone out gone out ]

LEAVE

1. <E > to leave a room or building, especially in order to do something for entertainment
• Please close the door as you go out.
• Do you fancy going out for a meal after work?
• It's terribly smoky in here - I'm just going out for a breath of fresh air.
• + -ing verb I wish you'd spend more time at home instead of going out drinking with your friends every night.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Departing

• She likes to go out at the weekend.
• I'm just going out for a walk. Do you want to come?
• What time do you want to go out?
• Tony forgot to take an umbrella when he went out. I hope it doesn't rain.
• He's just gone out. Can I take a message?

RELATIONSHIP

2. <A > to have a romantic and usually sexual relationship with someone
• How long have you been going out with him?
• They'd been going out (together/with each other) for almost five years before he moved in with her.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Marriage, cohabitation and other relationships

• They went out with each other for five years before getting married.
• She's going out with one of her colleagues.
• He hasn't gone out with anyone since he got divorced two years ago.
• He has gone out with a string of beautiful women.
• She will only go out with men who are taller than her.

SEA

3. <A > If the tide goes out, it moves back and covers less of the beach.
Compare come in
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Floods, tides and currents

• Is the tide coming in or going out?
• When the tide goes out in the estuary, cows graze on the marshes.
• You can only see the beach when the tide has gone out.
• The tide has gone out.
• At about three o'clock, the tide started to go out.

LIGHT/FIRE
4. If a light or something that is burning goes out, it stops producing light or heat.
• When I woke up the fire had gone out.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Stopping fires ↑Emitting and casting light ↑Stop having or doing something

SPORT
5. UK to lose when you are playing in a sports competition, so that you must stop playing in the competition
• England went out to France in the second round of the championship.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Losing and being defeated ↑Scoring, winning and losing in sport
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