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Definition of outer in English:

outer

adjective ˈaʊtəˈaʊdər
  • 1attributive Outside; external.

    外面的;外部的

    the outer layer of the skin
    the outer door

    外面的门。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As they clattered into the street outside I heard voices of slaves, and the outer door creaking open.
    • In the next few weeks the roof, outer cladding and external works will be added.
    • Their downslope change in symmetry suggests that a thin outer layer of competent salt buckled.
    • He also admits he might be running out of countries since his brand of humour touches only ‘a very superficial outer layer’ of each place.
    • Here, there would be such a huge number of electrons and positrons created that the radiation would be trapped, except for a thin layer at the outer edge of the gas.
    • Be sure the outer layer of clothing is tightly woven, preferably wind - resistant, to reduce body-heat loss caused by wind.
    • There is evidence that beneath a thick outer layer of ice the moon is covered in liquid or slushy water.
    • The results may look simple, but the shape has in fact been gently molded to flatter, and the edges sheared and overlapped to offer glimpses of the neck and brow through the outer layers.
    • And while this reconstructs the outer skin layer, it does not reconstruct the pigments and pores in the skin.
    • She came to a stop outside the outer door to the king's privy chamber, swallowing hard.
    • As red giants age, they eventually cast off the outer layers of their surfaces.
    • The outer edges are white, barred with black, with a dark center.
    • Collectively, these observations suggest that the thin outer layer is a primary feature of the sclerite wall.
    • I knocked on the outer door of the porch - no answer.
    • This allows small ‘pouches’ of the inner layers to be forced outwards through the outer layer.
    • Made of what is called cortical bone, the outer shell is remarkably thin.
    • The ear of a mammal is divided into three regions: the external or outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear.
    • Skinflint walkers can walk on by the gatehouse and follow the deep ditch that runs outside the high outer curtain of 14 th-century walls.
    • Using a potato peeler, remove any harder outer layers (larger stalks need thorough paring down; thinner stalks don't need much at all).
    • The retinal pigment epithelium, which is the outer layer of the retina, fails to carry out its function as a result of which there is accumulation of the breakdown products.
    Synonyms
    outside, outermost, outward, exterior, external, surface, superficial
    1. 1.1 Further from the centre or inside.
      更加远离中心的;更加远离内部的
      the outer city bypass

      城市外环线。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Scott and Fran left the main castle and they walked around the village inside the outer castle walls.
      • Elsewhere, motorists using the A64 in both directions found difficult conditions, and extra-long queues developed at busy parts of the city's outer ring road.
      • Charles' district in the outer suburbs of Melbourne is considered a bellwether seat.
      • In the last seven years, more than 80,000 households have been relocated from city centre to outer areas.
      • It is outside the outer ring road of Shanghai, which is very far from the city.
      • Aluminium pans should be fairly thick to allow the heat to travel from the centre to the outer rim; cheap, thin pans burn food easily.
      • Have any of them lived in the rural areas or the outer suburbs?
      • Without hesitation, she climbs out and makes her way out into the outer trench right outside.
      • ‘There's no comparison between Manchester city centre and the outer areas and it would help everybody in the area,’ he added.
      • The site was chosen on the assurance of a motorable road to connect the centre with the outer ring road.
      • People in today's outer suburbs love their homes and enjoy their lives.
      • He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road.
      • The key to it is to develop a new outer breakwater in our harbour.
      • Surely it makes sense to develop that and allow a phased switch from the city centre to an outer Dublin location.
      • In a leaflet sent to every York household, people have backed site A, which is located inside the outer ring road behind the Civil Service sports ground.
      • The 28-year-old heroin drug addict is banned from the city centre and from begging inside the outer ring road for five years.
      • Flower buds formed quickly and now two have bloomed with pink outer petals and white centres contrasting well, if accidentally, with the dark red stems of the dogwood.
      • Andrew stood on the edge of the ruins that marked the outer boundaries of the city centre.
      • The biggest project, however, was the preliminary work on the second river crossing, the city bypass and the outer ring road.
      • There are two heavy guns on the outer wall that are just inside the outer mouth of the port.
    2. 1.2 (especially in place names) more remote.
      尤用于地名更远的
      Outer Mongolia

      外蒙古。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He spent his childhood and teenage years in the suburbs of outer London, already marginalised, already looking in at the centre from the edges.
      • It sounds more like the quality of life in a struggling inner-city area than a leafy outer London suburb like Bexley.
      Synonyms
      outlying, distant, remote, faraway, furthest, peripheral, fringe, border, marginal, suburban, perimeter
  • 2attributive Objective or physical; not subjective.

    客观外界的;物质的;非主观的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Inner and outer beauty makes a perfect photographic subject.
    • The cognitive outer mask that we often live in, or at least I used to live in, it sort of draws you away from who you really are.
    • Many patients buried their emotions, utterly helpless and dependent as they were, for the sake of peace, maintaining an outer stoicism they did not feel.
    • We are completely distracted toward outer phenomena.
    • She can show her inner world changing, even as her outer optimism and cheer stays painted on.
    • When we are attuned in this way, the inner and the outer coincide.
    • The film plays with the concepts of inner beauty and outer beauty, physical beauty and the beauty of true emotions.
    • We work with the outer form of our physical existence by bringing our complete attention to the physical body, which is the primary basis for our clinging.
    • I don't think you can really differentiate between the inner spiritual world of yourself and the outer physical world around you.
    • The images act as both a mapping of the session itself, and as transitional objects that lie between inner and outer reality.
    • He judged on the outer, the material not the spiritual.
    • Inner consciousness and outer reality are intimately related and co-create each other.
    • Simplify your outer life so your inner life can take charge.
    • He offers his, and indeed the century's, standard example of clocks which may have various internal mechanisms to produce the same outer effects.
    • For Mohammed dance is the outer physical expression of the inner being, disciplined by rhythm.
    • The outer landscape stays the same; the inner landscape changes.
    • But our two worlds, the outer one and the inner one, sometimes remain separate realms.
    • Gestures figured or embodied the dialectic between inner essence and outer appearance, since they were supposed to express to the viewer the secret movements of the soul within.
    • Strictly speaking, our knowledge reaches only as far as the phenomena of inner and outer experience.
    • Only then do we balance the inner with the outer.
noun ˈaʊtə
  • 1British An outer garment or part of one.

    〈英〉外衣;穿在外面的服饰的一部分

    boots with stiff leather outers

    硬皮面的靴子。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has a micromesh outer which limits the vest to less than 1 kilogram in weight, and has pockets of gel sewn in to it which can hold temperature for long periods.
    • My cigarette smoke is miniscule compared to the pollution that clings to our innards and outers from factories and traffic and from the unseen dangers caused by radio waves or electricity.
    • The moccasin is made of a sheep hide reversed to give the comfort of wool and the false impression of security by the leather outer.
  • 2British (in archery and shooting) the division of a target furthest from the bullseye.

    1. 2.1 A shot that strikes the outer.
  • 3British A container in which packaged objects are placed for transport or display.

    〈英〉货箱,转运箱

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most cases are made of cardboard outers, with cardboard vertical or papier mâché horizontal dividers.
    • In 1971 he joined the boxmills operation where approximately one-third of all the company's packaging was manufactured - especially Christmas chocolate boxes, decorated outers and printed wrappers.
  • 4Australian informal The part of a racecourse outside the enclosure.

    〈澳,非正式〉跑马场围栏外部

    Example sentencesExamples
    • How many times have I sat there in the outer, or on my lounge chair and watched them so nearly get it together, only to be methodically dismantled in the last twenty minutes?
    • He remembered occasions in the outer in the 1960s and '70s when a space would suddenly clear to reveal knots of men belting into each other.
    • He'd watched 100s of games from the outer.
    • From the outer - during the last quarter as the Bombers stalled going forward - the cry ‘Lead for him’ could be heard from the crowd.
    • They were tight wins and there is little doubt the sea of red and black in the outer helped make the difference.

Phrases

  • on the outer

    • informal Excluded from a group; rejected or isolated.

      she has always been the girl who was on the outer at high school
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She has served her time on the outer and the rumours are that she will soon be back.
      • I have found so much treasure making friends with those on the outer.
      • Many of us have no doubt been subjected to bullying-type behaviour or being on the outer.
      • People on the outer get fed up and energised, and new alliances form.
      • The film has no pretensions to be a psychological treatise, but its depiction of repressed passion, and the frustrations of those on the outer, is subtle and knowing.
      • Individuals within the party who may make excellent candidates but do not have union connections may feel "on the outer" in such a process.
      • This new commission left me on the outer.
      • This list will only serve to keep me permanently on the outer.
      • He was on the outer after a breakdown in his working relationship with the group's senior management.
      • I remember being new in a church and I started making friends with those on the outer and those not quite in with the cool crowd.

Origin

Late Middle English: from out + -er2, replacing earlier utter1.

Rhymes

doubter, grouter, pouter, scouter, shouter, spouter, touter

Definition of outer in US English:

outer

adjectiveˈaʊdərˈoudər
  • 1attributive Outside; external.

    外面的;外部的

    the outer door

    外面的门。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the next few weeks the roof, outer cladding and external works will be added.
    • As they clattered into the street outside I heard voices of slaves, and the outer door creaking open.
    • And while this reconstructs the outer skin layer, it does not reconstruct the pigments and pores in the skin.
    • The retinal pigment epithelium, which is the outer layer of the retina, fails to carry out its function as a result of which there is accumulation of the breakdown products.
    • Skinflint walkers can walk on by the gatehouse and follow the deep ditch that runs outside the high outer curtain of 14 th-century walls.
    • The results may look simple, but the shape has in fact been gently molded to flatter, and the edges sheared and overlapped to offer glimpses of the neck and brow through the outer layers.
    • She came to a stop outside the outer door to the king's privy chamber, swallowing hard.
    • Made of what is called cortical bone, the outer shell is remarkably thin.
    • The outer edges are white, barred with black, with a dark center.
    • As red giants age, they eventually cast off the outer layers of their surfaces.
    • Here, there would be such a huge number of electrons and positrons created that the radiation would be trapped, except for a thin layer at the outer edge of the gas.
    • Using a potato peeler, remove any harder outer layers (larger stalks need thorough paring down; thinner stalks don't need much at all).
    • There is evidence that beneath a thick outer layer of ice the moon is covered in liquid or slushy water.
    • Collectively, these observations suggest that the thin outer layer is a primary feature of the sclerite wall.
    • Be sure the outer layer of clothing is tightly woven, preferably wind - resistant, to reduce body-heat loss caused by wind.
    • I knocked on the outer door of the porch - no answer.
    • He also admits he might be running out of countries since his brand of humour touches only ‘a very superficial outer layer’ of each place.
    • Their downslope change in symmetry suggests that a thin outer layer of competent salt buckled.
    • This allows small ‘pouches’ of the inner layers to be forced outwards through the outer layer.
    • The ear of a mammal is divided into three regions: the external or outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear.
    Synonyms
    outside, outermost, outward, exterior, external, surface, superficial
    1. 1.1 Further from the center or inside.
      更加远离中心的;更加远离内部的
      the outer hall at the museum's main entrance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Elsewhere, motorists using the A64 in both directions found difficult conditions, and extra-long queues developed at busy parts of the city's outer ring road.
      • Andrew stood on the edge of the ruins that marked the outer boundaries of the city centre.
      • Have any of them lived in the rural areas or the outer suburbs?
      • Surely it makes sense to develop that and allow a phased switch from the city centre to an outer Dublin location.
      • In a leaflet sent to every York household, people have backed site A, which is located inside the outer ring road behind the Civil Service sports ground.
      • The biggest project, however, was the preliminary work on the second river crossing, the city bypass and the outer ring road.
      • Scott and Fran left the main castle and they walked around the village inside the outer castle walls.
      • Without hesitation, she climbs out and makes her way out into the outer trench right outside.
      • He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road.
      • It is outside the outer ring road of Shanghai, which is very far from the city.
      • ‘There's no comparison between Manchester city centre and the outer areas and it would help everybody in the area,’ he added.
      • Charles' district in the outer suburbs of Melbourne is considered a bellwether seat.
      • There are two heavy guns on the outer wall that are just inside the outer mouth of the port.
      • The 28-year-old heroin drug addict is banned from the city centre and from begging inside the outer ring road for five years.
      • Flower buds formed quickly and now two have bloomed with pink outer petals and white centres contrasting well, if accidentally, with the dark red stems of the dogwood.
      • People in today's outer suburbs love their homes and enjoy their lives.
      • In the last seven years, more than 80,000 households have been relocated from city centre to outer areas.
      • The key to it is to develop a new outer breakwater in our harbour.
      • The site was chosen on the assurance of a motorable road to connect the centre with the outer ring road.
      • Aluminium pans should be fairly thick to allow the heat to travel from the centre to the outer rim; cheap, thin pans burn food easily.
    2. 1.2 (especially in place names) more remote.
      尤用于地名更远的
      Outer Mongolia

      外蒙古。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He spent his childhood and teenage years in the suburbs of outer London, already marginalised, already looking in at the centre from the edges.
      • It sounds more like the quality of life in a struggling inner-city area than a leafy outer London suburb like Bexley.
      Synonyms
      outlying, distant, remote, faraway, furthest, peripheral, fringe, border, marginal, suburban, perimeter
    3. 1.3 Objective or physical; not subjective.
      客观外界的;物质的;非主观的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For Mohammed dance is the outer physical expression of the inner being, disciplined by rhythm.
      • The images act as both a mapping of the session itself, and as transitional objects that lie between inner and outer reality.
      • Inner and outer beauty makes a perfect photographic subject.
      • When we are attuned in this way, the inner and the outer coincide.
      • The cognitive outer mask that we often live in, or at least I used to live in, it sort of draws you away from who you really are.
      • Simplify your outer life so your inner life can take charge.
      • We are completely distracted toward outer phenomena.
      • Only then do we balance the inner with the outer.
      • He offers his, and indeed the century's, standard example of clocks which may have various internal mechanisms to produce the same outer effects.
      • But our two worlds, the outer one and the inner one, sometimes remain separate realms.
      • I don't think you can really differentiate between the inner spiritual world of yourself and the outer physical world around you.
      • She can show her inner world changing, even as her outer optimism and cheer stays painted on.
      • Gestures figured or embodied the dialectic between inner essence and outer appearance, since they were supposed to express to the viewer the secret movements of the soul within.
      • We work with the outer form of our physical existence by bringing our complete attention to the physical body, which is the primary basis for our clinging.
      • He judged on the outer, the material not the spiritual.
      • The outer landscape stays the same; the inner landscape changes.
      • Strictly speaking, our knowledge reaches only as far as the phenomena of inner and outer experience.
      • Inner consciousness and outer reality are intimately related and co-create each other.
      • The film plays with the concepts of inner beauty and outer beauty, physical beauty and the beauty of true emotions.
      • Many patients buried their emotions, utterly helpless and dependent as they were, for the sake of peace, maintaining an outer stoicism they did not feel.

Origin

Late Middle English: from out + -er, replacing earlier utter.

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