External vs Outer - What's the difference?
external | outer |
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
Outside; external.
Farther from the centre of the inside.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 An outer part.
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The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bullseye.
A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
(wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box.
Someone who admits to something publicly.
Someone who outs another.
One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
An ouster; dispossession.
As adjectives the difference between external and outer
is that external is outside of something; on the exterior while outer is outside; external.As a noun outer is
an outer part.external
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom
Antonyms
* internalExternal links
* * * English words suffixed with -alouter
English
Etymology 1
Comparative of out by analogy with inner.Adjective
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. 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.}}
Antonyms
* innerNoun
(en noun)- We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.
