adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outer clothing (=that you wear over other clothes)
▪ The men were hastily pulling on some outer clothing.
outer space (=areas a long way from the Earth)
▪ Meteorites are rocks from outer space.
outer space
▪ creatures from outer space from another planet
outer/upper garment
the further/outer reaches of sth
▪ the further reaches of the jungle
the outer/inner surface
▪ The outer surface of the shell is ridged.
the outside/outer edge
▪ The airport is located on the outer edge of town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ The white outer area represents activities that are clearly regarded as non-sport in all countries.
case
▪ Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century.
▪ Occasionally the inner and outer cases of the same watch were made of silver of different standards.
circle
▪ Do kin who are more distant in genealogical terms necessarily fall in the outer circle?
▪ On the outer circle of the diagrams describing each type is where the processes of doing sociology are placed.
▪ As a result, his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun.
▪ Is there any sense of duty to give support to relatives in the outer circle of effective kin?
city
▪ To local residents of the outer city it remains their best form of protection against rapid change.
▪ This compares with quantities close to zero in the outer city, for most speakers.
▪ However, the inner outer city distinction is a real one.
▪ In these terms North Shields is part of the inner city, whereas Cramlington is part of the outer city.
▪ In section 4.5 I shall adduce evidence from the outer city that suggests that this view is correct.
▪ This was seldom true in the outer city.
corner
▪ He felt a throbbing strain at the outer corners of his eyes, and pressed them with his finger-tips.
▪ Blend and smudge the darker colours under the bottom lashes from the outer corner to the middle of the eye.
▪ Make a wedge shape in the outer corner with a darker colour.
darkness
▪ Cambridge, which always assumes that anyone who leaves it passes into outer darkness, found the decision incomprehensible.
▪ They come from many backgrounds, some from comfortable homes, and have found their various routes to inner and outer darkness.
▪ Don't consign us lesser mortals to outer darkness.
door
▪ I heard the outer door shut.
▪ The ones on the outer door I can understand, but why lock up the bathroom?
▪ Keeping her ears open, she heard the outer door open, then close.
▪ Then I heard the key turning in the outer door and woke up.
▪ The outer door was open this time and a sonorous voice responded to his knock.
▪ The outer door opened, and the dusty moonscape lay before them, glimmering in the earthlight.
▪ He closed the outer door behind him.
▪ It also was the best thing at hand to prop open the heavy outer door of his building.
edge
▪ Finish the semi-circle with a strip of hardboard nailed to the outer edges of the plywood arch.
▪ Eventually, regional facilities arrive on the outer edge to serve groupings of neighborhoods.
▪ A strip of the relevant colour appears on the outer edge of each page within the sections.
▪ Beyond Lovettsville, on the outer edge of my universe, lay Brunswick.
▪ The outer edges were rounded and smoothed with a small edging trowel, which gives a very attractive finish.
▪ He would for ever inhabit this ragged outer edge with me.
▪ This is a term for small vee cuts through both pieces of fabric on the outer edge.
▪ At this point, the outer edge of the box will simply be resting on the main beam.
fabric
▪ Lay out the outer fabric flat with the wrong side up and lay buckram on top with the bump sandwiched in between.
▪ Tack, then machine the lining to the outer fabric along these marked lines to form lath channel.
▪ Materials: Pertex inner with Snugpak's own Paratex outer fabric.
▪ Lining Cut the lining as for the outer fabric and join the widths together in the same way.
▪ Machine along both edges of the tape through the lining and the outer fabric.
fringe
▪ She glanced round, spotting Terry Lewis on the outer fringes of their circle, an expression of chagrin on his face.
▪ The centre is One, the outer fringe is Six; zones where there used to be neighbourhoods.
garment
▪ I was very glad of my thermal vest, three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.
layer
▪ It's clinical fact that the outer layer of the skin, drying out the natural moisture.
▪ The skin test measures only cholesterol on the outer layer of the skin.
▪ Then the imploding outer layers of the start strike the core and rebound under the shock.
▪ Then she had descended through the familiar outer layers of Dreamspace, and faded in on the bus.
▪ It is thought that the head secretes a substance which is capable of breaking down the outer layer of the ovum.
▪ The outer layer - what we look like - can work for us in another way too.
▪ Or, in Sainsbury-ad speak: Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers.
limit
▪ Different families will have different outer limits.
membrane
▪ The touch of the sperm on the oocyte's outer membrane stimulates the second meiosis to move to completion.
▪ It merely registers the disruption of its outer membrane that such entry causes.
▪ One great improvement involved the outer membrane of the cell.
▪ The nucleus thus formed divides and two cells develop within the outer membrane.
▪ Others acquired a harder outer membrane to later become skin-like materials.
▪ As the cells increase in number the outer membrane disappears.
▪ People with sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia are known to have red cells with defects in their outer membranes.
office
▪ She strode through the door to the outer office of his sanctum, past his personal secretary, who blinked in astonishment.
▪ He walked straight through the outer office and out past the security gate and the Marine guard.
▪ Delphine was at the desk in the outer office.
▪ A young corporal entered from the outer office.
▪ In his own outer office there were twelve desks but just two telephones.
▪ A telephone rang in an outer office.
▪ He marches past the main entrance to his outer offices, where people are already waiting, hoping to see him.
part
▪ With × 12 I find a hint of resolution in the outer parts, and this is marked with × 20.
▪ The outer part of the funnel serves to catch the sound-vibration while the tube carries it directly to the eardrum.
▪ Ordinary people might at times come to the outer part of a temple and were able to participate in the festival processions.
▪ The more positive emotions come from the inner part of the emotional centre, the negative emotions from the outer part.
▪ The inner parts of the planet were squeezed under the growing weight of the accumulating outer parts.
perimeter
▪ This is a one metre band marked inside the outer perimeter.
▪ The outer perimeter carries a raised ridge.
reach
▪ Even in the outer reaches of the capital-Bexley, say-you are looking at £137,000.
▪ They explored the outer reaches of the farm and took long hikes up Talcott Mountain.
rim
▪ Ling Gill is better enjoyed from its outer rim than from its confines.
▪ Roll out a pastry lid, place it over the filling and damp the outer rim.
▪ Can you advise me on how I could repair a chip in its outer rim?
▪ He had found the observation post two miles beyond the outer rim of the Jabal Hamrin.
▪ At the outer rim of awareness, the known and declared nationalists fade into a host that have still to declare themselves.
ring
▪ The device clips to the outer ring of the drum cap, sealing the outlet.
▪ These in turn merge gradually into dark circles and bright outer rings with no evidence of impact cratering.
▪ The hind legs have to mark time while the forelegs cross over, making the outer ring of a wheel.
▪ Any way you look at it, the beams miss the bullseye and hit the outer ring.
▪ Importantly, however, the report gave weighty endorsement to the principle of inner, intermediate, and outer ring roads.
▪ And, like the outer ring of a web, the walls were not curved, but sectioned off with flat panelling.
room
▪ The door from the small outer room opened.
▪ Four lawyers whisk through this small outer room, one at a time, always rushing, never speaking.
▪ The outer room was empty, but the lights had been left on.
▪ I let myself in, and stopped to look around me in the small outer room.
shell
▪ This is trapped between the inner and outer shell with an insulating filling divided into compartments for greater efficiency.
▪ But they have a hard outer shell.
▪ The sticky nature of the outer shell may also facilitate passive spread of eggs.
▪ Materials: the outer shell is made from proofed nylon and the lining from cotton giving just that little extra comfort.
▪ He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
▪ This gentler self had been covered by a hard, outer shell.
▪ Both jacket and salopettes are made of Parameta with a Pertex outer shell.
▪ The outer shells of the Buckau rotors sat on pivots that came to about two-thirds of their height.
skin
▪ In the first example there is a white outer skin of pure silver, with overlapping joins at each end.
▪ To peel, cover with boiling water, let stand 2 to 3 minutes, then drain and slip off outer skin.
▪ The outer skin would be moulded in clear perspex or similar with an inner skin behind it.
▪ Only the inside, which is full of seeds, is eaten, as the outer skin is very bitter.
▪ Peel off the tough outer skin of the silk squash, or top and tail the courgettes.
▪ This internal expansion caused the outer skin to crack open, forming the diagnostic crusty-looking surface.
▪ An abrasion-resistant layer of glass cloth was applied to the outer skin for protection.
space
▪ But his aspirations go beyond the global: he envisions outer space as his next frontier.
▪ What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?
▪ He looked like he'd take off into outer space with animation.
▪ It was about a visitor from outer space, shaped very much like a Tralfamadorian by the way.
▪ The oceans To the prejudiced eyes of land-bound humans the oceans seem like one continuous mass, homogeneous as outer space.
▪ It was part toy, part symbol, part alien from outer space.
▪ And what crossed my mind Crossed into outer space.
▪ Along with Leary, they went to outer space, but what different outer spaces they each represent.
suburb
▪ He had been there for an hour in the darkness of the abandoned marshalling yard in the outer suburbs of East Berlin.
▪ As they reached the outer suburbs it began to drizzle slightly and Preston switched the wipers on.
▪ Ringways Two and Three threatened the middle-class outer suburbs.
surface
▪ From above the arch seemed like the outer surface of a dome, with mostly blue and green bands of light.
▪ He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
▪ It is during gastrulation that the cells leave the outer surface and move inside the region where they will form the gut.
▪ Seventy-five percent or more of the outer surface must he covered with skin either attached or used as a wrap.
▪ At no stage does the outer surface of the object go inside the event horizon.
▪ He had an image of a building with a complex outer surface.
▪ A minor fraction of phosphatidylserine may be present at the outer surface of platelets, but this can not usually be detected.
▪ However, the outer surfaces are inactive in coagulation tests.
wall
▪ There is a bake oven set in a wall in the fireplace probably an original outer wall of the former cottage.
▪ The entire first floor outer walls are brick facing over concrete blocks, without any studs.
▪ When first surveyed, a few years ago, it had rendered outer walls and unprepossessing windows.
▪ I moved quietly and slowly, pressing myself against the outer wall of the building.
▪ Frankenstein jumped down and led the horse, escorting him through the ruins of outer walls until the tower stood above us.
▪ He asked a servant to display the paintings for me on the floor against the outer wall of the verandah.
▪ The citadel's rough, sheer pale-brown outer walls and ramparts resemble a giant sandcastle built on the edge of the sea.
▪ The pressure of the expanding beans forced the western outer wall to collapse.
world
▪ My belief is that my brother wanted no intrusion from the outer world.
▪ Does he not care for the outer world?
▪ The individual is always trying to reconcile his inner and outer world and lessen the anxiety of the internal situation.
▪ He could not tell if there was any connection between the events on this minor planet and those on the outer worlds.
▪ Our clothes, living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world.
▪ The outer world faithfully reflects our inner world.
▪ We need a third concept to relate the concepts of the inner and outer world.
▪ Inner and outer worlds coalesced, and he withdrew from me again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Boil the beans for ten minutes and then remove the tough outer skin.
▪ the outer edge of the solar system
▪ the outer wall of the temple
▪ the rocks that make up the outer layers of the Earth's surface
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A spinning earth eliminated the excessive speed of rotation currently ascribed to the outer spheres.
▪ He comes over well as a person, with all the outer confidence you'd expect of a company representative.
▪ Materials: both the inner and outer are Pertex 4 fabric.
▪ The outer pockets of the jacket were filled and sagging.
▪ This is trapped between the inner and outer shell with an insulating filling divided into compartments for greater efficiency.
▪ When the cause of deafness is not solely in the outer and/or middle ear, high frequencies are likely to be affected.