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Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
go out
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 Main entry: gophrasal verb
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