What does OUTER mean?

Definitions for OUTER
ˈaʊ tərout·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. outer(a)adjective

    being on the outside or further from a center

    "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs"

  2. outeradjective

    located outside

    "outer reality"

  3. outeradjective

    being on or toward the outside of the body

    "the outer ear"

Wiktionary

  1. outernoun

    An outer part.

  2. outernoun

    (wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box.

    We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.

  3. outernoun

    Someone who admits to something publicly.

  4. outernoun

    Someone who outs another.

  5. outeradjective

    Outside; external.

  6. outeradjective

    Farther from the centre of the inside.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Outeradjective

    That which is without; opposed to inner.

    Etymology: from out.

    The kidney is a conglomerated gland only in the outer part: for the inner part, whereof the papillæ are composed, is muscular. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. b. i. c. 5.

ChatGPT

  1. outer

    Outer refers to the external part, surface or layer of something; located or being on the outside or further from the center; not internal or inner. It can also refer to outer space, i.e., the vast expanse existing beyond the earth and between celestial bodies.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Outer

    owt′ėr, adj. more out or without: external—opp. to Inner.—n. the part of a target outside the rings, a shot striking here.—adj. Out′ermost, most or farthest out: most distant.—Outer bar, the junior barristers who plead outside the bar in court, as distinguished from King's Counsel and others who plead within the bar. [Comp. of out.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'OUTER' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3940

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'OUTER' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3421

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'OUTER' in Adjectives Frequency: #516

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Anagrams for OUTER »

  1. route

  2. outre

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of OUTER in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of OUTER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of OUTER in a Sentence

  1. Max Lerner:

    We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

  2. Dejan Stojanovic:

    Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

  3. Alexandar Djelic:

    The swelling was so bad, the doctors had to cut away an outer part of my penis so I can urinate. I was put on a catheter, then got an infection, but survived the horror.

  4. Jack Parsons:

    Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

  5. Ramana Pemmaraju:

    Since eternity, mankind has denied what was to be deeply understood and transformed, all the emotions that were primal in one's progress in higher consciousness, was subjugated, condemned so deeply that we are still struck with basic human body, making it impossible to transcend towards self-realization. All forms of art are just devices to go within, from outer to inner journey.”

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