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outlying

adj

Etymology

From outlie (Etymology 2) + -ing.

  1. derived from *legʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *ligjaną✻
  3. inherited from *liggjan✻
  4. inherited from liċġan
  5. inherited from lien
  6. prefixed as outlie — “out + lie”
  7. suffixed as outlying — “outlie + ing”

Definitions

  1. Relatively remote from some central location.

    • The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
    • Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.

  2. Located outside of some boundary or limit.

    • When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.

  3. A region relatively remote from a central location.

    • The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonoutlying, outlying field, outlyingness, United States minor outlying islands

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at outlying

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