outside

• The outside surface looks good.
• Household drudgery, wood-cutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish. - 1901, Miles Franklin, “Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William...
• 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,...

• 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.
• It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. - 1976, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles:
• Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion. - 1993 September 3, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Report to the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding law...

• I don't want to take up your time with outside details so I will only say that about two years ago I had an opportunity of acquiring a share in a very promising claim—gold, you understand, both reef and alluvial. -...
• 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. - 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of...

• 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 ("an outside man") or from within the organization. - 1968,...

• 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...

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

• an outside estimate

• the outside lane of the motorway

• the outside lane of the highway

• 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. - 1994, Caroline...
• 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. - 2009, Marjorie Keniston...

Antonyms: inside

• I am going outside.
• Residents of the city rarely ventured outside.
• Jurgis waited outside and walked home with Marija. - 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXVIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:

1. (colloquial) Not in prison.

   • It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal […] he's lost when he's outside. - 1964, Merfyn Turner, A Pretty Sort of Prison, page 15:

2. (surfing) Beyond the breaking waves.

   • Taking off outside in the green. - 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

• I slept outside last night.
• 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...
• Harry and David spent most of their childhood outside, developing an intimate knowledge of the animals, waterways, and plant life of Mid Wales. - 2026 May 5, Cyrus Dunham, “Nature's Way”, in Architectural Digest, volume...

• 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,...
• The outside of the building gives no valuable clew. - 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,...

• 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 Consternation - 1714 August 16 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY,...
• Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones?,Do you know what it's like on the outside? - 1967, The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941:

• 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...

• 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[…] - 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify...

• 1919 June 28, the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, Treaty of Versailles, Part IV—German Rights and Interests outside Germany, In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty, Germany...
• 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...
• 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. - 1992, Rudolf...

• 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. - 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds:
• Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children. - 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, outside back cover
• Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland. - 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, "Beyond...

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

• 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...
• While the queer subject is outsided by the norm of reproductive heterosexuality, it feels its material effects and affects, even embodies this outsided-ness; […] - 2018, Shraddha Chatterjee, Queer Politics in India:...