Around vs Outside - What's the difference?
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Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
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, passage=But Richmond
Near; in the vicinity of.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= At various places in.
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, title= Alive; existing.
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, title= Generally.
From place to place.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
Partially or completely rotated, including to face in the opposite direction.
The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
* 1653 , (Thomas Urquhart) (translator), , , "The Author's Prologue to the First Book"
* 1890 , (Jacob Riis), ,
* 1911 , '', article in '' ,
The external appearance of something.
The space beyond some limit or boundary.
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* 1967 , (The Bee Gees), ,
* 1982 , (Anne Dudley), (Trevor Horn), (Malcolm Mclaren), (Buffalo Gals)
The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
(dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
* (rfdate) (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
* 1901 , ,
* 1921 , Ernest Leopold Ahrons, ,
Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
* 1938 (believed written c.1933), ,
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* 1993 September 3, ,
(baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.
(rfc-sense) On or towards the outside.
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Outdoors.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 (rfc-sense) On the outside of.
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* 1919' June 28, the '', Part IV—German Rights and Interests ' outside Germany,
* 1982 , ,
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Near, but not in.
* 1898 , ,
* 2002 , , Bookends , 2003 trade paperback edition, ISBN 0767907817, outside back cover:
* 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, "Beyond Congregations", OY!'' (magazine section), ''St. Louis Jewish Light , volume 63, number 50, page 24:
Except, apart from.
As a preposition around
is defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.As an adjective around
is alive; existing.As an adverb around
is generally.As a proper noun outside is
(slang|us) to residents of alaska, the rest of the united states, especially the contiguous 48 states south of canada.around
English
(translation tables should match senses)Alternative forms
* arownd (obsolete)Preposition
(English prepositions)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
Derived terms
* all around * aroundness * around the clock * around the bend * around the corner * around the world * bat around * beat around the bush * get around * go around * hang around * have been around * ring-around-the-rosy * round * run around/run-around/runaround * turn around/turnaround * wrap around/wraparoundAdjective
(-)Lee S. Langston
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
Derived terms
* be aroundAdverb
(-)The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around , it changes everything.}}
- (see bring around, come around)
- (see bring around, come around)
Derived terms
(indicating repeated or continuous action) * boss around * fool around * fuck around * goof around * horse around * lie around * lounge around * mess around * monkey around * play around * shop around * sleep around (from place to place) * kick around * know one's way around * (soplink) * (soplink) * (soplink) * (soplink) * push around * (soplink)See also
* aboutoutside
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- 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, ...
- The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.
- The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside .
- I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside .
- Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones? / Do you know what it's like on the outside ?
- 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.
- It may last a week at the outside .
- The outsides' did as ' outsides always do. They were very cheerful and talkative at the beginning of every stage, and very dismal and sleepy in the middle
Usage notes
* Rarely used with an .Adjective
(en adjective)- The outside surface looks good.
- Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
- 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.
- Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side.
- It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.
- Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion.
- The first pitch is ... just a bit outside .
- an outside estimate
Adverb
(en adverb)- Jurgis waited outside and walked home with Marija.
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside , a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Preposition
(English prepositions)- It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.
- "Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?"
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Up the hill Richmond town was burning briskly; outside the town of Richmond there was no trace of the Black Smoke.
- Jane Green lives outside New York City with her husband and children.
- 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.
- Outside of winning the lottery, the only way to succeed is through many years of hard work.
