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Out to   /aʊt tu/   Listen
Out to

adjective
1.
Fixed in your purpose.  Synonyms: bent, bent on, dead set.  "Dead set against intervening" , "Out to win every event"






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"Out to" Quotes from Famous Books



... decided that Bagwax was to be sent out to Sydney at the expense of the Caldigates. There had been difficulty as to leave of absence for such a purpose. The man having been convicted, the postmaster-general was bound to regard him as guilty, and hesitated to allow a clerk to be absent so long on behalf of a man who was already in prison. ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... night Joe was dying, Grandma broke out and said to Paul King that if Joe hadn't gone with him out to Deegan Point two weeks ago, he never would have had that chill. But ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris

... WORM. They will point out to your excellency where the wound lies, and so, perhaps, help you to find a remedy. Such a character—pardon the observation—ought never to have been made a confidant, or should never have been roused to enmity. He detests ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... things out to the roof of the two-story extension. It was a tin roof, and sloped a bit. Suddenly her foot slipped, and she lost her balance. She clutched at a clothesline, but it snapped. Down she came, and ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 9, March 1, 1914 • Various

... wheels, because steel will wear out so rapidly in such a place that its use will be unsatisfactory. If then cast iron is used, we will find that we cannot make with it as large a wheel as we may determine is desirable when steel is used. And just to follow this line out to its close I will state here that we find that 36 in. seems to be the maximum satisfactory diameter for cast iron wheels, because this size does not give greater mileage than 33 in., costs more per 1,000 miles run, and seems to be nearer the limit for good foundry results. On the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various


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