Outer vs Food - What's the difference?
outer | food |
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.
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between outer and food
is that outer is an outer part or outer can be someone who admits to something publicly while food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.As an adjective outer
is outside; external.outer
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.
Derived terms
* outer space * outernessEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.