Exterior
[ɪk'stɪərɪə;ek-] or [ɪk'stɪrɪɚ]
Definition
(adj.) situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; 'an exterior scene'; 'exterior grade plywood'; 'exterior paints' .
Typist: Suzy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
(a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
(a.) Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
(n.) The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
(n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
Checked by Bertrand
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Outward, external, outer, outside, superficial.[2]. Extrinsic, foreign, from without.
n. [1]. Outside, outer part, outer surface.[2]. Outward appearance.
Checker: Sigmund
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outer, outward, external, on_the_outside, foreign
ANT:Inner, inward, internal, domestic
SYN:Outside, surface, face, aspect, phase
ANT:Interior, heart, core
Typist: Molly
Definition
adj. outer: outward external: on or from the outside: foreign.—n. outward part or surface: outward form or deportment: appearance.—n. Exterior′ity.—adv. Extē′riorly outwardly.
Typed by Edmund
Examples
- Having given up the interior of my head to idleness, it is as well that the exterior should work in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Few people had discovered some cowardice and much infirmity of purpose under this imposing exterior. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Around the exterior wall was a deep moat, supplied with water from a neighbouring rivulet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This was native delicacy in Mr Chivery--true politeness; though his exterior had very much of a turnkey about it, and not the least of a gentleman. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Ebrington, in point of every exterior quality, perhaps too in many of his general habits, was a model for English noblemen. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- No plaster is used anywhere; but the exterior and interior walls are smooth and may be painted or tinted, if desired. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This apparatus is exterior to the building, and is said to afford a continuous blast of great regularity; the air, when it passes into the furnace, is, however, saturated with moisture. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Her intentions in short had never been more definite; but poor Lily, for all the hard glaze of her exterior, was inwardly as malleable as wax. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- God made you a gentleman at heart, my friend, D'Arnot had said; but we want His works to show upon the exterior also. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Foreign money, and every sort of exterior interference, came into the country at each election. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There could be naught of cruelty or baseness beneath that godlike exterior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Another form, known as the Fleuss dress, makes the diver also independent of exterior aid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the Hydra, the animal may be turned inside out, and the exterior surface will then digest and the stomach respire. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Glenmont is a rather elaborate and florid building in Queen Anne English style, of brick, stone, and wooden beams showing on the exterior, with an abundance of gables and balconies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The plate system freezes the water on the exterior walls of hollow plates, which contain within them the freezing medium. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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