Surface vs Outward - What's the difference?
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The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword The outside hull of a tangible object.
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, title= (lb) Outward or external appearance.
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*(Vicesimus Knox) (1752-1821)
*:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
(lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
:(Stocqueler)
To provide something with a surface.
To apply a surface to something.
To rise to the surface.
To come out of hiding.
For information or facts to become known.
To work a mine near the surface.
To appear or be found.
outer; located towards the outside
visible, noticeable
Tending to the exterior or outside.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
Towards the outside; away from the centre.
:We are outward bound.
*Shakespeare
*:The wrong side may be turned outward .
(obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
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*:ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the kny?tes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren
(obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
Surface is a related term of outward.
As verbs the difference between surface and outward
is that surface is while outward is (obsolete|rare) to ward off; to keep out.As an adjective outward is
outer; located towards the outside.As an adverb outward is
towards the outside; away from the centre.surface
English
Noun
(en noun)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,
The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}
Synonyms
* overside * superfice (archaic)Derived terms
* surface mail * surficialVerb
outward
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
- The fire will force its outward way.
- an outward war
- (Hayward)
Adverb
(en adverb)Synonyms
* outwardsDerived terms
* outwardnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- Ne any armour could his dint out-ward ; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.