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Outback vs Guilty - What's the difference?

outback | guilty |

As nouns the difference between outback and guilty

is that outback is (australia) the most remote and desolate areas of australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops while guilty is (legal) a plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.

As adjectives the difference between outback and guilty

is that outback is characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of australia; very remote from urban areas while guilty is responsible for a dishonest act.

As an adverb outback

is to or towards the most remote and desolate areas of australia.

outback

English

(wikipedia outback)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
  • * 1951' June, W. J. Banks, ''Flying Doctors of the '''Outback'' , ''The Rotarian , page 23,
    • Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia?s “outback ” people.
  • * 2000 , Shirley W. Gray, Australia , page 31,
    • In the outback , many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
  • * 2002 , Erinn Banting. Australia: The People , page 20,
    • The outback ?s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.
  • * 2010 , Lonely Planet, BBC Earth, The Traveller?s Guide to Planet Earth , page 129,
    • Astronomers consider the outback area around Alice Springs — with its low pollution, low humidity and few light sources — to be among the best star-gazing locations on earth.

    Synonyms

    * (the) bush

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
  • * 1964 , Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates , page 3081,
    • the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.
  • * 1996 , David H. Bayley, Police for the Future , page 70,
    • In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook , page 215,
    • From Bathurst the Mitchell Highway heads northwest through Dubbo and Bourke Nyngan then continues for almost 200 km to the most outback of towns Bourke.
  • * 2008 , Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses , Easyread Large Edition, page 135,
    • We had a frosty meeting and he took me around to the AML&F Co?s staff officer, requesting a jackaroo position for me on the company?s most outback station in Queensland.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
  • * 1953 , Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates , page 241,
    • If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.
  • * 1984 , Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates: Senate Weekly Hansard , Volume 3, page 1474,
    • This has allowed Australians really to go outback in some reasonable comfort to see the attractions of this country.
  • * 2012 , Andy Hughes, A Ringer?s Hands , page 10,
    • Like me, the son was inspired to go outback , and when things went wrong for him the desert seemed like the perfect place to perish and decay, to get blown around on the wind.

    See also

    * back o' Bourke, back of beyond, bush

    Anagrams

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    guilty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Responsible for a dishonest act.
  • :
  • (lb) Judged to have committed a crime.
  • :
  • Having a sense of guilt.
  • :
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • Blameworthy.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summereat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty —on the floor.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) (dialectal)

    Antonyms

    * not guilty * innocent

    Related terms

    * guilty as sin

    Noun

    (guilties)
  • (legal) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
  • (legal) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
  • One who is declared guilty of a crime.
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, , Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion citation
    • , passage=The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.}}