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- 1 An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
"He made his exit at the opportune time."
- 2 Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment, a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 the act of going out wordnet
- 4 An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.; The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage. specifically
"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."
- 5 an opening that permits escape or release wordnet
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- 6 A way out.; 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.
"emergency exit fire exit"
- 7 euphemistic expressions for death wordnet
- 8 A way out.; 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."
- 9 The act of departing from life; death. euphemistic, figuratively, often
"the untimely exit of a respected politician"
- 1 To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. intransitive
"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. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.]"
- 2 Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage. also, figuratively, intransitive
"I take no monie, but good vvordes, raile not if I tell true, if I doe not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie]."
- 3 pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life wordnet
- 4 To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.; To leave a scene or depart from a stage. intransitive
"Desdemona exits stage left."
- 5 lose the lead wordnet
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- 6 To depart from life; to die. euphemistic, intransitive, often
- 7 move out of or depart from wordnet
- 8 To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) ambitransitive
"Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner."
- 9 To depart from or leave (a place or situation). also, figuratively, transitive
"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 apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150 East 35th Street."
- 10 To depart from or leave (a place or situation).; To alight or disembark from a vehicle. also, figuratively, specifically, transitive
"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."
- 11 To give up the lead. intransitive
"West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump."
Etymology
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 derived from the noun.
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 derived from the noun.
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.
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