English Dictionary
◊ REASONING
take out
v 1: cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the
classroom" [syn: {move out}, {remove}]
2: remove from its packing; "unpack the presents" [syn: {unpack}]
[ant: {pack}]
3: take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the
vegetables" [syn: {take away}] [ant: {add}]
4: obtain by legal of official process; "take our a license";
"take out a patent"
5: make a date; "Has he asked you out yet?" [syn: {ask out}, {invite
out}]
6: remove something from a container or an enclosed space
7: purchase prepared food to be eaten at home [syn: {buy food}]
8: remove funds, from a bank account; "She drew $2,000 from the
account" [syn: {withdraw}, {draw}] [ant: {deposit}]
9: bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a
cover; "draw a weapon" [syn: {draw}, {pull}, {pull out}, {get
out}]
10: take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from
the barrel" [syn: {draw}]
11: draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort;
"extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; also used
in an abstract sense: "extract information from the
telegram" [syn: {extract}, {pull out}, {draw out}]
12: take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy [syn: {excerpt},
{extract}]
13: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The
bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off
the top piece" [syn: {exclude}, {except}, {leave out}, {leave
off}, {omit}] [ant: {include}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ PAGE OUT
page out
What a {paging} system does when it copies
part of a {task}'s working memory from {RAM} to {swap space}
on disk.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-01-23)