Outer
['aʊtə] or ['aʊtɚ]
Definition
(adj.) being on or toward the outside of the body; 'the outer ear' .
(adj.) located outside; 'outer reality' .
(adj.) being on the outside or further from a center; 'spent hours adorning the outer man'; 'the outer suburbs' .
Edited by Claudette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
(n.) The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.
(n.) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
(v.) One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Exterior, external.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outward, outside, external, exterior
ANT:Inward, inside, internal, interior,[See OUTWARD]
Editor: Madge
Definition
adj. more out or without: external—opp. to Inner.—n. the part of a target outside the rings a shot striking here.—adj. Out′ermost most or farthest out: most distant.—Outer bar the junior barristers who plead outside the bar in court as distinguished from King's Counsel and others who plead within the bar.
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Examples
- The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The outer door was quickly opened, and Tom, who was watching outside, was on the alert, in a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The report from Sheridan embraced his operations up to his passing the outer defences of Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Regardless of the foolish belief of the peoples of the outer world, or of Holy Thern, or ebon First Born, I am not dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The outer case of the instrument, which is a flat cylinder made of sheet iron, is indicated by the letters _c_, _c_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Haste to the outer gardens, or you are lost. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Gerald had penetrated all the outer places of Gudrun's soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the blows fell now only on the outer man, and not, as before, on the heart. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When cocoanuts are picked, however, they have still another covering-an outer rind which has a smooth surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From this space it reaches the outer air by a valve at the bottom of the outer vessel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But he had more brains and more inner dignity and outer insolence and humor than any man that he had ever known. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And there, on the margin of the page, were the partially blurred imprints of four wee fingers and the outer half of the thumb. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She had let go the outer world, but within herself she was unbroken and unimpaired. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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