exit
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
Noun
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- He made his exit at the opportune time.
- On the firſt Day of the eleventh Month of the fortieth Year after the Exit from Egypt, Moſes, after he had numbred the People in the Plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, and found that there was not left a Man of...
- [...] I have purſued you like your ſhadow; I have beſieg'd your door for a glimpſe of your exit and entrance, like a diſtreſſed creditor, who has no arms againſt privilege but perſeverance. - 1762 (first performance),...
Antonyms: entrance entry ingoing ingress
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(specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
- All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, meerely Players; / They haue their Exits and their Entrances, / And one man in his time playes many parts, / His Acts being ſeuen ages. - c. 1598–1600 (date...
- Why do directors assume that exits and entrances need not be rehearsed? - 1968, Leon C. Miller, “Blocking the Play”, in How to Direct the High School Play, Chicago, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 39...
- A way out.
- emergency exit fire exit
- He was looking for the exit and got lost.
- She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.
Antonyms: entrance entranceway entry entryway ingang ingress portal
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An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
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(road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access highway except at such entrances and exits as have been designated by the department. - 1972, “Article...
- From Washington Dulles International, follow the signs to Interstate 66 east to Washington. Follow I-66 to the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (US Route 50). take the Constitution Ave exit off of the bridge. - 2002, “Driving...
- The act of departing from life; death.
- the untimely exit of a respected politician
- However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men. - 1711 August 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison;...
- I have contrived a most effectual machine for the easy decapitation for such as chuse that noble and honourable exit; which no doubt must give great satisfaction to all persons of quality, and those who would imitate...
Synonyms: death tomb celestial transfer decease decomposition defunction dematerialization demise dirt nap doom exit expiration fatality liquidation mortality passing quietus repose sleep of the just sunset the big sleep crash downfall fall
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin exeō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin exitusder. Middle English exit English exit From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus. The verb is...
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Verb Entry 2
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- Come, good Remus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus, exiting, looks hard at Romulus....
- Lucy enters at 11 o'clock and runs to her mother after blowing kiss to audience with both hands. They both exit at 11 o'clock, after Appleby's line. Ethel crosses to her victim at 3 o'clock, winks at him and then looks...
- The sciatic nerve exits via the greater sciatic foramen and may in fact be divided by all or part of the piriformis muscle. The pudendal nerve exits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic...
- To depart from life; to die.
Synonyms: assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy the farm buy it cark it cash in cash in one's chips check out close one's eyes for the last time code conk out croak cross over cross rainbow bridge cross the Great Divide
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
- Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner. - 1990, Guy L[ewis] Steele Jr. et al., “Control Structure”, in Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd edition,...
- Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this to exit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it. - 1995, Roland Hughes, “Tricks You Should Already Have”, in Zinc It!: Interfacing Third Party...
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doe exited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observed exiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering...
- More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992. - 1995 August, Poverty’s Revolving Door (Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief; SB/95-20), [Washington, D.C.]: Bureau of the Census, Economics...
- Many owners of private businesses will make the decision to exit their businesses because they have reached natural retirement age, or because they are ill, or because they have decided for personal reasons that they...
Antonyms: enter
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(transitive, specifically) To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
- When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan. - 1994, William F. Roemer,...
Antonyms: enter
- To give up the lead.
- West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump. - 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 173:
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- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- I take no monie, but good vvordes, raile not if I tell true, if I doe not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie]. - c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], London: […] Thomas Scarlet for Cuthbert Burby,...
- A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare. - c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
- Agnes exit rapidly, and Ravenſburg is partly perſuaded, and partly forced off, by the Prince Palatine. END OF ACT I. - 1810 July, Frederic Reynolds, “The Free Knights; or The Edict of Charlemagne. A Drama, in Three...
Synonyms: exeat
Origin
Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”); see further at etymology 1 above.