BRING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bring out mean? 

• BRING OUT (verb)
  The verb BRING OUT has 9 senses:

1. make visible

2. bring out of a specific state

3. prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

4. direct attention to, as if by means of contrast

5. bring onto the market or release

6. encourage to be less reserved

7. take out of a container or enclosed space

8. bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.

9. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

  Familiarity information: BRING OUT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRING OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make visible

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

bring out; reveal; unveil

Context example:

He brings out the best in her

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

show (make visible or noticeable)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):

disclose; expose; uncover (reveal to view as by removing a cover)

excavate; unearth (recover through digging)

trot out (bring out and show for inspection and admiration)

unfold (open to the view)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring out of a specific state

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bring out; let out

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

let go; let go of; release; relinquish (release, as from one's grip)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bring out; issue; publish; put out; release

Context example:

publish a magazine or newspaper

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):

edit (supervise the publication of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't bring out the story

Sense 4

Meaning:

Direct attention to, as if by means of contrast

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bring out; set off

Context example:

I set off these words by brackets

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):

foreground; highlight; play up; spotlight (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent)

raise (bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project)

pick up (lift out or reflect from a background)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Bring onto the market or release

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

bring on; bring out; produce

Context example:

produce a new play

Cause:

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):

offer (produce or introduce on the stage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Encourage to be less reserved

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

The teacher tried to bring out the shy boy

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Take out of a container or enclosed space

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bring out; get out

Context example:

Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

take out; unpack (remove from its packing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):

winkle; winkle out (remove or displace from a position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 8

Meaning:

Bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bring out; introduce

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

acquaint; introduce; present (cause to come to know personally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 9

Meaning:

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap

Context example:

The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

Hypernyms (to "bring out" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Cause:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Verb group:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring out"):

confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)

reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)

leak (tell anonymously)

betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)

spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)

come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)

out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)

blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)

muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)

blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Single and looking for love? Venus in Capricorn will bring out your charm, just in time for holiday parties, from December 1 until 19.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was nothing to do but to bring out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it was lost.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was what he wanted to do—to bring out the innate ruffianism of this man he did not like.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bring out some of the gold you sold yourself to the devil for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“And bring out the cigars and the whisky you’ll find in my berth.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The colors have been enhanced to bring out contrast but are a close approximation to Triton's natural colors.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

It's just what you need to bring out the tender womanly half of your nature, Jo. You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then he had but to bring out the old romance book from the priory, with befingered cover of sheepskin and gold letters upon a purple ground, to entice her wayward mind back to the paths of learning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Venus will bring out your charms at the gatherings you may attend in November.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)