Outdoor vs Outlying - What's the difference?
outdoor | outlying |
Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Relatively remote from some central location.
Located outside of some boundary or limit.
A region relatively remote from a central location.
* 1975 , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities
As adjectives the difference between outdoor and outlying
is that outdoor is situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air while outlying is relatively remote from some central location.As a noun outlying is
a region relatively remote from a central location.outdoor
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
Synonyms
* out-of-doorAntonyms
* indoorDerived terms
* outdoor education * outdoor playSee also
(Wikipedia)outlying
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
- When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.