What is "outwards"

Usage examples of "outwards".

Known as a hoarding or brattice, this structure provided a roof over the battlements to protect defenders from missiles, and often projected outwards from the walls to allow defenders to drop missiles on attackers below.

In the latter case, water charged with excrementitious and decaying matter would be slowly forced outwards, and would bathe the quadrifids, if I am right in believing that the concave lobes contract after a time like those of Dionaea.

Other bottles filled with magnetized water tightly corked up were laid in divergent rows with their necks turned outwards.

Vibrations in a hundred registers and keys beckoned the thing, as forces and emotions and dreams spilt and were amplified in the brick chambers of the station and blasted outwards into the sky.

Lying flat on his stomach, and hanging far over, so as to see what he was doing, he worked one point of his spontoon into the sash of the grating, and, levering outwards, he strained until at last it came away completely in his hands.

The Black Bull standing in a small square half-way between the High Street and the Cowgate, and the entrance to it being by two closes, into these the pressure outwards was simultaneous, and thousands were moved to an involuntary flight, they knew not why.

As he fought to free his arm of syrupy fronds he saw, sinking towards him through those eddying clouds, a silhouette, a shape whose arms were outstretched, as if crucified, whose flimsy robe billowed and swayed with the currents, whose black hair spread outwards in Gorgonian tresses.

The horns describe a circle of about one and a quarter when viewed from the side, and point directly outwards.

Jack had mastered his meaning, the pair were head and shoulders clear of the last beam, and the Kachin was working his way outwards and downwards, inch by inch.

The more nearly the composition of the external air approaches that of the expired air, the slower will be the diffusion of carbonic acid outwards and of oxygen inwards, and the more charged with carbonic acid and deficient in oxygen will the blood in the lungs become.

A pencil beam within the globe shone outwards upon Rhodes, its center the village where Garrison and Vicki Maler were staying.

From there Zilic ranged outwards, avoiding the dangerous Mujahedin, looking for softer targets among any Bosnian Muslim communities who might lack armed protection.

Then knowing that she was safe for a while, I shut the door, which opened outwards as doors of ancient make sometimes do, and set against it a little table that stood in the passage.

When using it, the hands grasped the two arms, so that the unforked part pointed outwards.

When that subtle energetic matrix is projected outwards as the body of the creature, we then perceive it as a living organism, complete with sense organs, behavioural patterns, instincts and everything else which makes a particular creature so individual.