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Outland vs Outlane - What's the difference?

outland | outlane |

As nouns the difference between outland and outlane

is that outland is any outlying area of a country; the provinces while outlane is one of the outer lanes toward the bottom of a pinball table that cause the ball to drain if not propelled back upwards.

As an adjective outland

is provincial: from a province (of the same land).

outland

English

Adjective

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  • Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
  • Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
  • * 1921 , Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays , page 74:
    • These outland Romans will not kill us all If you permit them to do their governing, Which is so dear to them, over you and us.
  • * 1966 , Donald Davidson, Poems, 1922-1961 , page 107:
    • I heard strange pipes when I was young, / Piping songs of an outland tongue.
  • (used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
  • * 1919 , William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy , page 402:
    • Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
  • * 1949 , The Reader's Digest , volume 54, page 101:
    • When the "outland Danes ," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, [...]
  • * 1980 , New Society , volume 51, page 546:
    • To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese ," and can travel freely to the mother country.
  • * 2001 June 12, "Mike Echo Mike" (username), "Why do I fly !!!", in rec.aviation.student, Usenet :
    • And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe [...]

    Quotations

    * 1905 , Edward Strachen Morgan (translator), Chronicles of the city of Perugia 1492-1503 (original by Francesco Matarazzo), page 198: *: But his plan came to naught, and the outland Duke was not even strong enough to bring back Piero dei Medici from his exile into Florence.

    Synonyms

    * (living abroad) (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (especially in the plural) Any outlying area of a country; the provinces.

    • Derived terms

    * outlands, outlandish, outlander

    outlane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinball) One of the outer lanes toward the bottom of a pinball table that cause the ball to drain if not propelled back upwards.
  • * 1997 , Gary Flower, Bill Kurtz, Pinball: the lure of the silver ball
    • Hitting the top yellow button awards the points and increases the point values for the central rocket button targets and the side outlanes .
  • * 1998 , Walter Day, Twin Galaxies' official video game and pinball book of world records
    • Some newer games have a slot - instead of screw holes - which allows the post to be slid back and forth. You have to visually determine the mid-range position and then tighten the outlane post.