Outer vs Apparent - What's the difference?
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Outside; external.
Farther from the centre of the inside.
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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.
Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
* 1667, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , ,
Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
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* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
* 1785, (Thomas Reid), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man , Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),
* 1848 , , (The History of England from the Accession of James the Second) ,
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Outer is a related term of apparent.
As adjectives the difference between outer and apparent
is that outer is outside; external while apparent is capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.As a noun outer
is an outer part or outer can be someone who admits to something publicly.outer
English
Etymology 1
Comparative of out by analogy with inner.Adjective
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Antonyms
* innerNoun
(en noun)- We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.
Derived terms
* outer space * outernessEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----apparent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.
- Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
- When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
- What (George Berkeley) calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.
- To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.
- This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}