Definition of "outside" []

• The part or parts that face out; the outer surface. (noun)
• The part or side of an object that is presented to the viewer; the external aspect. (noun)
• Outward aspect or appearance: "You'll never persuade me that I can't tell what men are by their outsides” ( George Eliot). (noun)
• The space beyond a boundary or limit. (noun)
• Sports A position at a distance from the inside or center, as of a playing field or racetrack. (noun)

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• "An Irishman once explained the difference to an English traveller, in this way: "An outside car, yer honor, has the wheels _inside_, and an inside car has the wheels _outside_.""
• "~two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside~ and also."
• "Here another departure from the programme took place, for my father was curious to see how so singular a craft behaved in open water: so, as there was a nice fresh breeze blowing, and sufficient sea on outside to give him a fair idea of her qualities, we worked out through the channel as soon as we reached it, and sailed round the island _outside_ of everything first of all, resuming the original plan as soon as we came inside again."