outside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹsīd
ipa: /ˈaʊt.saɪd/
ipa: /ˈaʊt.sɑɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈæʊ.so̞ɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈæʊ.səɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɛʊ.so̞ɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɛʊ.səɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈæʊʔ.so̞ɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈæʊʔ.səɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɛʊʔ.so̞ɪd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈɛʊʔ.səɪd/
enpr: out-sīdʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈsaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: more outside
form: most outside
form: owtside
Etymology: From out + side.
Senses: examples: text: The outside surface looks good.
text: Household drudgery, wood-cutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 25:
text: 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.
ref: 1921, Ernest Leopold Ahrons, Steam Locomotive Construction and Maintenance:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
examples: text: 1938 (believed written c.1933), H. P. Lovecraft, The Book,
Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side.
text: It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.
ref: 1976, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles:
text: Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion.
ref: 1993 September 3, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Report to the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding law enforcement interaction with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 731:
glosses: Away from the interior or center of something.
examples: text: The Board did not trust outside information about their rivals.
text: Positions in organizations are being vacated continually through death and retirement, promotion and demotion. Replacements may be drawn from the outside ("an outside man") or from within the organization.
ref: 1968, Barney G. Glaser, Organizational Careers, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2004, Viktor Zander, Identity and Marginality among New Australians: Religion and Ethnicity in Victoria's Slavic Baptist Community, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
examples: text: The first pitch is ... just a bit outside.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
raw_tags: of a pitch
examples: text: an outside estimate
glosses: Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
examples: text: the outside lane of the motorway
glosses: 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.
examples: text: the outside lane of the highway
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1994, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Gilles Pison, Nuptiality in Sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary anthropological and demographic perspectives, Oxford University Press, USA:
text: 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' [...]
ref: 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 158:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Yoruba women, work, and social change (Indiana Univ. Pr.)
text: A husband will thus have responsibilities to his own household, as well as to those in which his “outside” children reside.
ref: 2013, John C.S. Fray, Janice G Douglas, Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Blacks, Springer, →ISBN, page 78:
text: 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, [...]
ref: 2014, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, Gender, Kinship and Power, page 256:
antonyms: inside
glosses: 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.)
raw_tags: of a person