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exit

noun
/ˈɛksɪt/UK/ˈeɪɡzɪt/CA/ˈɛɡzət/US/ɛɡzɪʈ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin exeō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin exitusder. Middle English exit English exit 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.

  1. derived from exitus — “departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”
  2. inherited from exit

Definitions

  1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving

    An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

    • He made his exit at the opportune time.
    • [...] I have purſued you like your ſhadow; I have beſieg'd your door for a glimpſe of your exit and entrance, like a diſtreſſed creditor, who has no arms againſt privilege but perſeverance.

  2. A way out.

    • emergency exit    fire exit
    • He was looking for the exit and got lost.
    • She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.

  3. The act of departing from life

    The act of departing from life; death.

    • the untimely exit of a respected politician
    • However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men.
    • I have contrived a most effectual machine for the easy decapitation for such as chuse that noble and honourable exit; which no doubt must give great satisfaction to all persons of quality, and those who would imitate them.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To go out or go away from a place or situation

      To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

      • The sciatic nerve exits via the greater sciatic foramen and may in fact be divided by all or part of the piriformis muscle. The pudendal nerve exits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen.

    2. To depart from life

      To depart from life; to die.

    3. To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)

      • Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner.
      • Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this to exit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it.

    4. To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

      • More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992.
      • Many owners of private businesses will make the decision to exit their businesses because they have reached natural retirement age, or because they are ill, or because they have decided for personal reasons that they have just had enough.

    5. To give up the lead.

      • West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.

    6. Used as a stage direction for an actor

      Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

      • I take no monie, but good vvordes, raile not if I tell true, if I doe not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie].
      • A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare.
      • Agnes exit rapidly, and Ravenſburg is partly perſuaded, and partly forced off, by the Prince Palatine. END OF ACT I.

    7. Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment, a specialized surgical procedure used to…

      Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment, a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression.

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Derived

Blaxit, Brexit, Calexit, Capexit, Catalexit, Czexit, developer exit, Dexit, emergency exit, exit bag, exit ban, exit clause, exit code, exit fee, exit hole, exit interview, exitless, exit-like, exit node, exit policy, exit poll, exit program, exit ramp, exit scam, exit sign, exit strategy, exit ticket, exit time, exit velocity, exit visa, exit wound, fire exit, first exit time, Fixit, French exit, Frexit, Grexit, Huxit, Irish exit, Italexit · +18 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at exit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA