Betekenis van go out In het Nederlands

• 0 to leave a room or building, especially in order to do something for entertainment:

  • Please close the door as you go out.

  • Do you want to go out for a drink after work?

  • It's terribly smoky in here - I'm just going out for a breath of fresh air.

  • [ + -ing verb ] She goes out partying with her friends every weekend.

• 1 to have a romantic and usually sexual relationship with someone:

  • How long have you been going out with him?

  • They'd been going out (together/with each other) for almost five years before he moved in with her.

• 2 If the tide goes out, it moves back and covers less of the beach.

• 3 If a light or something that is burning goes out, it stops producing light or heat:

  • When I woke up the fire had gone out.

• 4 to lose when you are playing in a sports competition, so that you must stop playing in the competition:

  • England went out to France in the second round of the championship.

• 5 to have a romantic relationship, esp. one that includes going places together:

  • We’ve been going out for five months.

• 6 (of the ocean tide) to be flowing to a lower level:

  • While we were gone the tide had gone out, leaving our boat sitting on a sandbar.