Outer vs Oater - What's the difference?
outer | oater |
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.
(informal, humorous) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
* 1949 January 10, The Great American Horse Opera'', in '' ,
* 1995 , Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath Mills, A Writer's Companion ,
As nouns the difference between outer and oater
is that outer is an outer part or outer can be someone who admits to something publicly while oater is (informal|humorous) a movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.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
* ----oater
English
(wikipedia oater)Noun
(en noun)- In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater'," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. In essence it is the American morality play. To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Florea took these unusual pictures during the filming of ''Yellow Sky''. This is a $1,450,000 western with big-name stars (Gregory Peck, Anne Bancroft, Richard Widmark) and technical talent from 20th Century's top drawer, but is basically a typical ' oater .
- By far the more common was the low-budget "hoss opera" or "oater'," ground out in relentless numbers by studios such as Universal and Republic, and designed basically for edification of the young, who took them in on Fridays and Saturdays along with the episode of a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel, and perhaps a bouncing-ball sing-along. There were, to be sure, degrees of the ' oater ; a somewhat more subtle version, designed for adult as well as child viewing, was also made.
