Let+out
1let out — {v.} 1a. To allow to go out or escape. * /The guard let the prisoners out of jail to work in the garden./ * /Mother won t let us out when it rains./ Compare: LET LOOSE. 1b. {informal} To make (a sound) come out of the mouth; utter. * /A bee stung …
2let out — {v.} 1a. To allow to go out or escape. * /The guard let the prisoners out of jail to work in the garden./ * /Mother won t let us out when it rains./ Compare: LET LOOSE. 1b. {informal} To make (a sound) come out of the mouth; utter. * /A bee stung …
3let out — index communicate, disband, discharge (liberate), disengage, disenthrall, emit, free (not restricted …
4let out — v. (esp. BE) (B) to let out rooms to students (see also rent out) * * * [ let aʊt] let out go (esp. BE) (B) to let out rooms to students (see also rent out) let s (verbal form) (F) let out continue …
5let-out — adj. /let owt /; n. /let owt /, adj. 1. (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur. n. 2. Chiefly Brit. a means of… …
6let out — verb a) To release. The students were let out of school early. b) To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls. He let out the reins when they were a mile from the barn …
7let out — intransitive verb Date: 1888 to conclude a session or performance < school let out in June > …
8let-out — noun Let out is used before these nouns: ↑clause …
9let out — phr verb Let out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bellow, ↑breath, ↑cackle, ↑call, ↑chuckle, ↑clang, ↑clutch, ↑cry, ↑curse, ↑exclamation, ↑feeling, ↑flat …
10let out of — phr verb Let out of is used with these nouns as the object: ↑flat …
