Difference between Out and Dead

What is the difference between Out and Dead?

Out as an adverb is away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors. while Dead as an adverb is exactly right.

Out

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors. Away from; at a distance. Away from the inside or the centre. Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence. Used to intensify or emphasize. Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: Away from the inside. Away from the center.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play because the defending team threw the baseball past the batter three times in the strike zone, fielded a ball hit in the air, or fielded a ball hit to the ground and moved the ball to a defender blocking the runner's ability to move from base to base. A card which can make a hand a winner.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual. To reveal (a person) as having a certain secret.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket). Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.

Example sentence: Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Dead

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.Those who have died.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: No longer living.Figuratively, not alive; lacking lifebe dead to (person) : So hated by that they are absolutely ignored.Without emotion.Stationary; static.Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.Unproductive.Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.Broken or inoperable.No longer used or required.Not in play.Full and complete.Exact.Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Exactly right.Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to prevent by disabling; stop

Example sentence: To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

We hope you now know whether to use Out or Dead in your sentence.

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