odda

Preposition

out of

1. From the inside to the outside of.
   • The audience came out of the theater.
2. So as no longer to be in a given condition or state.
   • I have fallen out of love with you.
3. (informal) From a thing or place as a source, place of origin etc.
   • He ate out of a big bowl.
4. 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);
   • Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease.

   Synonyms:

   in, from, of, for

6. (now chiefly horse breeding) Born from a given mother.
   • She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.

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