Exit

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exit \Ex"it\ [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See
     {Exeunt}, {Issue}.]
     He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit
     Macbeth.
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     Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt (
           they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate
           the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of
           the actors.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exit \Ex"it\, n. [See 1st {Exit}.]
     1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has
        performed his part.
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              They have their exits and their entrances. --Shak.
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     2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or
        of life; death; as, to make one's exit.
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              Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. --Cowper.
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     3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way
        out.
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              Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits.
                                                    --Woodward.
        Exitial

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exit
       n 1: an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the
            way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: {issue},
             {outlet}, {way out}]
       2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
          passing" [syn: {passing}, {loss}, {departure}, {expiration},
           {going}, {release}]
       3: the act of going out
       v 1: move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive
            has left the country" [syn: {go out}, {get out}, {leave}]
            [ant: {enter}]
       2: lose the lead
       3: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes
          and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
          cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The
          patient went peacefully" [syn: {die}, {decease}, {perish},
           {go}, {pass away}, {expire}, {pass}] [ant: {be born}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  277 Moby Thesaurus words for "exit":
     AWOL, French leave, abandonment, absence without leave,
     absquatulation, access, adit, aisle, alley, ambulatory,
     annihilation, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bane, be consumed,
     be getting along, be gone, beat a retreat, beat it,
     biological death, blowhole, bolt, bow out, break out,
     break through, buzz off, cease, cease to be, cease to exist,
     cessation of life, channel, chute, clinical death, cloister,
     colonnade, come away, come forth, come out, communication, conduit,
     connection, corridor, course, covered way, crossing the bar,
     curtains, cut out, death, death knell, debouch, debt of nature,
     decampment, decease, defile, dematerialize, demise, depart,
     departure, desertion, die, die away, die out, disappear,
     disappearance, disappearing act, dispel, disperse, dissipate,
     dissolution, dissolve, ditch, do a fade-out, doom, door, duck out,
     duct, dwindle, dying, ebb of life, egress, egression, elopement,
     emerge, emunctory, end, end of life, ending, entrance, erode,
     erupt, escape, estuary, eternal rest, evacuation, evanesce,
     evaporate, exhaust, exodus, expiration, extinction, extinguishment,
     extraction, fade, fade away, fade out, ferry, final summons,
     find vent, finger of death, flee, flight, floodgate, flume, fly,
     ford, forthcoming, fugitation, gallery, gang along, gate,
     get along, get away, get off, get on, get out, get under way,
     getaway, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, go on furlough,
     go on leave, go out, going, going off, going out, grave,
     hand of death, hasty retreat, hegira, hide, ingress, inlet,
     interchange, intersection, issue, issue forth, jaws of death,
     junction, knell, lane, last debt, last muster, last rest,
     last roundup, last sleep, leak out, leave, leave no trace,
     leave the scene, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loophole,
     loss of life, make an exit, making an end, march off, march out,
     melt, melt away, mosey, move, move away, move off, move out,
     ooze out, opening, out, outcome, outcoming, outfall, outgate,
     outgo, outgoing, outlet, overpass, parting, pass, pass away,
     pass out, passage, passageway, passing, passing away, passing over,
     perish, perishing, pore, port, portico, pull out, quick exit,
     quietus, quit, railroad tunnel, release, removal, rest, retire,
     retire from sight, retirement, retreat, reward, run, run out,
     running away, sally port, sashay, sashay off, scramming,
     sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sink,
     sink away, skedaddle, skedaddling, sleep, slip away, slip off,
     slip out, sluice, sneak out, somatic death, spiracle, spout,
     stagger along, suffer an eclipse, summons of death, take a walk,
     take flight, take leave, take off, take wing, tap, toddle along,
     traject, trajet, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel,
     underpass, up and go, vanish, vanish from sight, vent, ventage,
     venthole, vomitory, walk out, walkout, waste, waste away, way,
     way out, wear away, weir, wing it, withdraw, withdrawal