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Outer   /ˈaʊtər/   Listen
Outer

adjective
1.
Being on the outside or further from a center.  "The outer suburbs"
2.
Located outside.
3.
Being on or toward the outside of the body.


Out

adjective
1.
Not allowed to continue to bat or run.  "He fanned out"
2.
Being out or having grown cold.  Synonym: extinct.  "The fire is out"
3.
Not worth considering as a possibility.
4.
Out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election.
5.
Excluded from use or mention.  Synonyms: forbidden, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten.  "In our house dancing and playing cards were out" , "A taboo subject"
6.
Directed outward or serving to direct something outward.  "The out basket"
7.
No longer fashionable.
8.
Outside or external.
9.
Outer or outlying.
10.
Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.  Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, stunned.



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"Outer" Quotes from Famous Books



... laced through the nude body of Kashtanov. The liquid above flowed rapidly in a complete circle, its center sucked hollow, exactly as a glass quarter-filled with water behaves when rotated quickly. Thus the outer surface of the dome, coated inside with the milky liquid, gleamed and scintillated as the whirl of light struck it and danced off it: and it even ...
— Raiders Invisible • Desmond Winter Hall
... that officer's chamber, just as two officers of the police, who had observed his movements, entered the outer room. ...
— The Boy Nihilist - or, Young America in Russia • Allan Arnold
... Lawrence, one of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House. As they will be an excellent mark for making this part...and Cape Northumberland, and being very remarkable, navigators will know where they are as they draw abreast of them, the largest being to the Southwards. Its outer end appears like a square-topt tower, very high, with a white spot in the middle of it. The other end is also very high. Lawrence's Islands bear from Cape Sir William Grant south-east or south-east by south 12 miles distant and there appears no danger between them and the shore. The cape ...
— The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson - With The Journal Of Her First Commander Lieutenant James Grant, R.N • Ida Lee
... an alchemist, and the dross of outer events turned to gold in the marvellous crucible of his mind. Fortune should have known this and abandoned the vain attempt to torment him. He had failed, but no other man could have come so near success. ...
— Captain Dieppe • Anthony Hope
... moments. It would, of course, happen that the doorway of her chamber would become blocked; but there were precautions taken to avoid this inconvenience as far as possible, and one man in livery was employed to go backwards and forwards between his mistress and the outer world, so as to keep the thread ...
— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope


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