Crossword clues for outpost
outpost
- Remote camp for soldier not in mail
- Remote camp
- Published letters seen as settlement some way off
- Distant military camp
- Disclosed stake in remote settlement
- Unfashionable job in faraway place
- Remote fort
- Thule or Attu
- Remote stronghold
- Remote military base
- Overseas military base
- Distant fort
- Attu is one
- Distant settlement
- Frontier settlement
- Perimeter guard
- A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
- A station in a remote or sparsely populated location
- A settlement on the frontier of civilization
- Military station
- Open-air job in distant settlement
- On strike over position in regional office?
- Small military camp is not in position
- Remote settlement
- Remote part of an empire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outpost \Out"post`\, n. (Mil.)
A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
The troops placed at such a station.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops. 2 The body of troops manning such a post. 3 An outlying settlement. 4 (context chess English) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
WordNet
n. a station in a remote or sparsely populated location [syn: outstation]
a settlement on the frontier of civilization [syn: frontier settlement]
a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
Wikipedia
Outpost is a video game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. The game was noteworthy for having a hard science fiction approach, with one of the main designers being a former NASA scientist.
Outpost was released simultaneously for DOS and Windows 3.1, and was also released for the Macintosh. It was followed by a loosely related sequel, Outpost 2: Divided Destiny.
An outpost is a square on the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh rank which is protected by a pawn and which cannot be attacked by an opponent's pawn. Such a square is a hole for the opponent . In the figure to the right, c4 is an outpost, occupied by White's knight. It cannot be attacked by Black's pawns - there is no pawn on the d- file and Black's pawn on the b-file is too far advanced.
Outposts are a favourable position from which to launch an attack, particularly using a knight.
Knights are most efficient when they are close to the enemy's stronghold. This is because of their short reach, something not true of bishops, rooks and queens. They are also more effective in the centre of the board than on the edges. Therefore, the ideal to be aimed at is an outpost in one of the central (c, d, e or f) files in an advanced position (e.g. the sixth rank) with a knight. Knowledge of outposts and their effectiveness is crucial in exploiting situations involving an isolated queen's pawn.
On the other hand, Nimzowitsch argued when the outpost is in one of the flank (a, b, g and h) files the ideal piece to make use of the outpost is a rook. This is because the rook can put pressure on all the squares along the rank.
Outpost may refer to:
Outpost (2002) is a collaborative album by electronic musicians Robert Rich and Ian Boddy. Recording of this album began during a week in October, 2001 while Boddy was visiting Rich’s studio in California. It was completed in November when Rich visited Boddy’s studio in Northern England. It was mixed, assembled and mastered by Robert Rich in January, 2002. The track titles follow a science fiction theme of space exploration. This album was released as a limited edition of 2000 copies.
Outpost is an arcade game programmed by Tom Orlando McWilliams and published by Sirius Software in 1981.
Category:1981 video games
Outpost is a 2008 British horror film, directed by Steve Barker and written by Rae Brunton, about a rough group of experienced mercenaries who find themselves fighting for their lives after being hired to take a mysterious businessman into the woods to locate a WWII-era military bunker.
Outpost is a board game published by TimJim Games from 1991 to 1994. Players start with factory and population tokens and compete to acquire victory points through stylized economic activity using production output cards to the buy more factories and population, and special ability cards including the titular Outpost. In 2011 Stronghold Games reprinted Outpost with a new "kicker" mechanic providing additional cards to bid on.
Category:Board games introduced in 1991 Category:Economic simulation board games
Outpost is a studio album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard released in 1981 on the Enja label which features performances by Hubbard, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Al Foster.
A military outpost is a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main force or formation, usually at a station in a remote or sparsely populated location, positioned to stand guard against unauthorized intrusions and surprise attacks; and the station occupied by such troops, usually a small military base or settlement in an outlying frontier, limit, political boundary or in another country.
An Outpost in civilian terms denotes an outlying frontier settlement or colony in a remote or sparsely populated location, on the frontier of civilization or on or across political boundaries of the state, far away from the home or country; and the body of people who settle here far from home but maintaining ties with their homeland remaining nationals of their home state even though they are not literally under the home state's system of government.
Outpost is the fifth studio album released by Boulder, Colorado band The Samples. The album was released on July 16, 1996.
Outpost is an animated short film, directed by Chuck Jones and first released in August, 1944. It is part of the Private Snafu series. As in all the Snafu films, the voice of Private Snafu is performed by Mel Blanc.
Outpost is a 1959 Australian TV play about Australian soldiers in New Guinea during World War Two. It was based on a script by John Cameron.
Usage examples of "outpost".
Mars, far enough from Earth almost to be considered a Belter outpost, remained steadfastly neutral, which meant they were on both sides, selling.
At that time, outposts of Diaboli power were already within twenty light years of the outermost human centers.
Duar had become an outpost of the growing nation of Praunce when he was fifteen, and he had run away from home as the result of an argument with his father about whether the new government was a good thing.
Sometimes to resupply the hills leading to Khe Sanh, we would actually slide over the side of the mountain and just start sliding up through the fog, trying to get up to the top of the mountain to the outposts to resupply them and then, in turn, pick up medevacs and slide back down the side of the mountain till we had visual flight again.
I headed to the Selly Oak outpost of the newly renamed University Hospital to see Aggie.
The train had slackened in its speed, it was slowing for a halt at the outskirts of a town: in the distance upon the flanks of low sweeping hills he could see a bracelet of hard bright lights, and presently the outposts of the town appeared.
No town or harbor was visible along this stretch of lonely coast between Khawarism, the southernmost outpost of the Turanian kingdom, and its capital of Aghrapur.
The outposts were shot or driven in, and the stormers were on the ridge almost as soon as their presence was detected.
The commander of the outpost had come down the steps of his headquarters and was striding down the street toward us, his aide speaking quietly and rapidly as he trotted alongside the older, taller man.
If the usually optimistic Therm had any doubts about the new outpost, he did not voice them.
Then reluctantly, Torsk KurdaghVlata, Landgrave and ruler of Wannome, agreed to keep his promise to help the shipwrecked humans reach the Commonwealth outpost of Brass Monkey.
Then reluctantly, Torsk Kurdagh-Vlata, Landgrave and ruler of Wannome, agreed to keep his promise to help the shipwrecked humans reach the Commonwealth outpost of Brass Monkey.
The high-ranking officer, recently returned from establishing a military outpost on the Unallied Planet of Caladan, made an astonishing announcement concerning what he had done with the corrupted Omnius core through the duped robot captain who had delivered his deadly updates to many Synchronized Worlds.
The GPS grid coordinates you gave me, I gave to Kamil, and he called his Amn AI-Khass detachment commander right there at the border outpost.
To the north, the South Stack light house, the last outpost of Anglesey, was retreating at six knots into their wake.