exitnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈek.sɪt//ˈeɡ.zɪt/us/ˈek.sɪt//ˈeɡ.zɪt/exit noun [ C ] (DOOR)
A2 the door through which you might leave a building or large vehicle, or the act of leaving something, especially a theatre stage:
a fire exit (= a door you can escape through if there is a fire)
an emergency exit
He saw Emma arrive and made a quick exit.
She made her exit from the stage to rapturous applause.
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- At the end of the performance, there was a mad dash for the exit.
- Turn off the motorway at the next exit.
- The police are covering all the exits, so they've no chance of escape.
- Is the emergency exit suitable for wheelchairs?
- There are three exits from the gallery, but only one leads directly onto the street.
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Parts of buildings: doors & parts of doors
- architrave
- bell push
- door
- door knocker
- doorbell
- doorway
- draught excluder
- fire door
- five-bar gate
- French doors
- knob
- knocker
- letterbox
- revolving door
- screen door
- stage door
- storm door/window
- swing door
- up-and-over
- weatherboarding
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Departing
exit noun [ C ] (ROAD)
A2 a smaller road used to leave a main road:
Come off the motorway at the Duxford exit.
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Roads & routes in general
- ascent
- bicycle lane/path
- bike lane/path
- blacktop
- communication
- cycle lane/path
- fast link
- footstep
- inside lane
- one-way
- outside lane
- pass
- passable
- road
- road safety
- road sense
- switchback
- trade route
- two-way
- way
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exitverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈek.sɪt//ˈeɡ.zɪt/us/ˈek.sɪt//ˈeɡ.zɪt/exit verb [ I or T ] (BUILDING)
to leave a building or large vehicle:
I exited quickly before anyone could see me.
Please exit the theatre by the side doors.
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk off (somewhere)
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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exit verb [ I or T ] (COMPUTER)
B1 to end a computer program that you are using:
You have to exit the program before starting another.
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Operating computers
- aliasing
- always-on
- black hat
- BMP
- caps lock (key)
- computerize
- cut
- enter
- fire
- format
- hacker
- hash
- keyboarder
- punch
- roll (sth) over sth
- scroll bar
- title bar
- touchscreen
- uninstall
- zip
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