Word definition: outside

Etimology


From out +‎ side.

noun


outside (plural outsides)

The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.

The external appearance of someone or something.

The space beyond some limit or boundary.

The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.

The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.

The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.

(surfing) The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.

(dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.

Examples


He's repainting the outside of his house.

Silenes of old swere little boxes, like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries, painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures, as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese, horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, thiller harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, ...

The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.

The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside.

Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.

Her outside was stern, but inside was a heart of gold.

Viewed from the outside, the building seemed unremarkable.

I in great Transport threw open the Door of my Chamber, and found the greatest Part of the Family standing on the Outside in a very great ConsternationThe spelling has been modernized.

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Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones?,Do you know what it's like on the outside?

Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside 'Round the outside 'Round the outside Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside And do-si-do your partners.

It may last a week at the outside.

On a motorway, you should always overtake other vehicles on the outside.

On the final bend, the second-place car tried to go around the outside of the leader but spun off into the barrier.

When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape.

The outsides did as outsides always do. They were very cheerful and talkative at the beginning of every stage, and very dismal and sleepy in the middle […]

adjective


outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.

Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.

Away from the interior or center of something.

Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.

Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.

(baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.

Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.

(chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.

(chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.

(of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)

Examples


The outside surface looks good.

Household drudgery, wood-cutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.

The tyres, which come from the steel manufacturers, are rolled without weld. They are bored inside to an internal diameter slightly less than the outside diameter of the wheel centre, on to which they have to be shrunk, the allowance being about 1⁄1000 of the diameter of the wheel centre.

Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side.

It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.

Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion.

As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.

The Board did not trust outside information about their rivals.

Positions in organizations are being vacated continually through death and retirement, promotion and demotion. Replacements may be drawn from the outside or from within the organization.

Although a marriage to "one of ours" was encouraged, an outside marriage was not condemned if it would be to a believer of a similar faith. Some of the immigrants' children married Australians and joined Australian Churches.

The first pitch is ... just a bit outside.

an outside estimate

the outside lane of the motorway

the outside lane of the highway

Antonym: inside

Isaac Nathan's Christian wife served as godmother to his outside son, born after their Christian marriage. She allowed the boy, but not his mother, to live with her, her husband, and their two children.

An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]

The legitimacy and inheritance rights of children were questionable, because colonial law did not acknowledge the validity of an outside marriage contracted after a monogamous, Christian one.

A husband will thus have responsibilities to his own household, as well as to those in which his “outside” children reside.

The latter is her “outside” child in reference to her conjugal tie at the time. Should she leave this man and move in again with the father of her first child, then the three younger children assume the place of “outside” children, [...]

adverb


outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.

Outdoors.

Examples


I am going outside.

Residents of the city rarely ventured outside.

It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal […] he's lost when he's outside.

Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

I slept outside last night.

preposition


outside

On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).

Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.

Near, but not in.

(usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

Examples


In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.

Jurgis waited outside and walked home with Marija.

There is jurisdiction over an offense under section 601 committed outside the United States if the individual committing the offense is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence of the Immigration and Nationality Act).

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

tourists from outside the country

Up the hill Richmond town was burning briskly; outside the town of Richmond there was no trace of the Black Smoke.

Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old[sic] son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland.

Outside of winning the lottery, the only way to succeed is through many years of hard work.

Related words


antonyms

inside

related terms

withoutside

verb


outside (third-person singular simple present outsides, present participle outsiding, simple past and past participle outsided)

(transitive) To ostracize or exclude.

Examples


Alison affirms that the kingdom of God does not rely on the sort of “outsiding” that most people find necessary to affirm identity. Keenan, echoing this claim, writes, “While the rest of humanity finds its identity in excluding, Jesus works for a sense of inclusiveness that defines him and, hopefully, us.”

While the queer subject is outsided by the norm of reproductive heterosexuality, it feels its material effects and affects, even embodies this outsided-ness; […]

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