The difference between Peel and Peel out

When used as verbs, peel means to remove the skin or outer covering of, whereas peel out means to start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.


Peel is also noun with the meaning: the skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

check bellow for the other definitions of Peel and Peel out

  1. Peel as a verb (transitive):

    To remove the skin or outer covering of.

    Examples:

    "I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her."

  2. Peel as a verb (transitive):

    To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

    Examples:

    "I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily."

    "We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose."

  3. Peel as a verb (intransitive):

    To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

    Examples:

    "I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel."

  4. Peel as a verb (intransitive):

    To remove one's clothing.

    Examples:

    "The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in."

  5. Peel as a verb (intransitive):

    To move, separate (off or away).

    Examples:

    "The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines."

  1. Peel as a noun (usually, uncountable):

    The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

  2. Peel as a noun (countable, rugby):

    The action of peeling away from a formation.

  3. Peel as a noun (countable):

    A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

  1. Peel as a noun (obsolete):

    A stake.

  2. Peel as a noun (obsolete):

    A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

  3. Peel as a noun (archaic):

    A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

  1. Peel as a noun:

    A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

  2. Peel as a noun:

    A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

  3. Peel as a noun (archaic, US):

    The blade of an oar.

  1. Peel as a noun (Scotland, curling):

    An equal or match; a draw.

  2. Peel as a noun (curling):

    A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

  1. Peel as a verb (curling):

    To play a peel shot.

  1. Peel as a verb (croquet):

    To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

  1. Peel as a verb:

    to sound loudly.

  1. Peel as a verb (archaic, transitive):

    To plunder; to pillage, rob.

  1. Peel out as a verb (idiomatic, US, automotive):

    To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.

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