outside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
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: outsides
form: owtside
Etymology: From out + side.
Senses: examples: text: He's repainting the outside of his house.
text: 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, ...
ref: 1653, François Rabelais, “The Author's Prologue to the First Book”, in Thomas Urquhart, transl., Gargantua:
text: The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Common Herd”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 159:
text: The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside.
ref: 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Cab:
text: 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.
ref: 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:
glosses: The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
examples: text: Her outside was stern, but inside was a heart of gold.
glosses: The external appearance of someone or something.
examples: text: Viewed from the outside, the building seemed unremarkable.
text: 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 Consternation
ref: 1714 August 17 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, August 6, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 577; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones?,Do you know what it's like on the outside?
ref: 1967, The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941:
text: 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.
ref: 1982, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Malcolm Mclaren, Buffalo Gals:
glosses: The space beyond some limit or boundary.
examples: text: It may last a week at the outside.
glosses: The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
examples: text: On a motorway, you should always overtake other vehicles on the outside.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: On the final bend, the second-place car tried to go around the outside of the leader but spun off into the barrier.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011, Rick Hansen, Leadership and The Art of Surfing, page xi:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
examples: text: 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[…]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.