Definizione monolingua

outside

outside (plural outsides)

1. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
   • 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), Gargantua, The Authors Prologue to the First Book,

     Silenes of old were 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, ...

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,

     The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.

   • 1911, Cab, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside.

2. The external appearance of something.
3. The space beyond some limit or boundary.
   • 1967, The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941,

     Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones? / Do you know what its like on the outside?

   • 1982, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Malcolm Mclaren, Buffalo Gals,

     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.

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.

   The outside surface looks good.

   • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career,

     Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.

   • 1921, Ernest Leopold Ahrons, Steam Locomotive Construction and Maintenance,

     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.

2. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
   • 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.

   • 1976, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles,

     It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.

   • 1993 September 3, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Report to the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding law enforcement interaction with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas,

     Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion.

3. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.

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

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) On or towards the outside.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Story of Muhammad Din in Plain Tales from the Hills,

     Evidently the little son had been waiting outside the door to secure his treasure.

   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle,

     Jurgis waited outside and walked home with Marija.

2. Outdoors.

   I slept outside last night.

outside

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) On the outside of.
   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,

     It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the dUrbervilles,

     ""Dont think of whats past!"" said she. ""I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?""

   • 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 renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.

   • 1982, 97th Congress of the United States, Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982,

     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 for permanent residence (as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act).

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     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.

2. Near, but not in.
   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds,

     Up the hill Richmond town was burning briskly; outside the town of Richmond there was no trace of the Black Smoke.

   • 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, ISBN 0767907817, outside back cover:

     Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

   • 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, ""Beyond Congregations"", OY! (magazine section), St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 63, number 50, page 24:

     Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old^[sic] son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland.

3. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

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

Definizione dizionario outside

	fuori
	on or towards the outside

esterno

al di fuori

al di fuori di

all'aperto

all’aperto

apparenza

aspetto

assente

eccetto

esteriore

esterne

estraneo

estremo

fuori di

su

Altri significati:

From or between other countries.

Coming from the outside.

On the outside of.

Near, but not in.

Outdoors.

(usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

(baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.

The space beyond some limit or boundary.

The external appearance of something.

the space beyond some limit or boundary

outer surface

On or towards the outside.

Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.

In the open, not within a building.

Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.

outdoors

external

on the outside of

The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.