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outer

adj
/ˈaʊtə/UK/ˈaʊtɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.

  1. inherited from ūtre
  2. inherited from outre

Definitions

  1. Outside

    Outside; external.

  2. Farther from the centre of the inside.

  3. An outer part.

    • 'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers [outer petals] marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lower end.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.

    2. The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.

    3. A shot which strikes the outer of a target.

    4. The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.

      • We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.

    5. Someone who admits to something publicly.

    6. Someone who outs another.

    7. One who puts out, ousts, or expels.

    8. An ouster

      An ouster; dispossession.

    9. One who supports leaving the European Union.

      • The 51.4 per cent to 48.6 per cent victory of the "outers" broke the back of the Labour government.
      • Meanwhile, outers are disporting themselves on TV in luminous green ties, hand-woven by first years at the Dronefield Academy for the Sartorially Challenged.

    10. comparative form of out (“(more) open about one's sexuality, etc”)

      comparative form of out (“(more) open about one's sexuality, etc”): more out

      • And 'I like to wear a silly hat; I get camper by the hour. I'm Will Young and I'm gay. Did you know I was gay? I hid it for a while. But now I'm out, I'm outer than you would believe'.[…]
      • […] outer-than-out literary lions like Edmund White and David Ehrenstein would later note, this final proof that the[…]

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at outer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at outer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at outer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA