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Meaning of outside in English

outside
adjective, adverb, preposition
uk
/ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/ /ˈaʊt.saɪd/ us
/ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/ /ˈaʊt.saɪd/
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A1
not inside a building:
It was a sunny day outside.
Since it's such a nice day, let's eat/sit/go outside.
an outside light/toilet
outside space No matter how modest your outside space, it can always be made to work as a restful sanctuary.
The main drawback to these houses is a lack of outside space.
C1 [ before noun ]
coming from another place or organization:
The company has called in outside experts.
In baseball, if a ball that is thrown to a batter is outside, it is thrown towards the side of home plate that is furthest away from the batter:
The pitch was high and outside.
I swung and missed at an outside fastball.
outside call/line
a phone call or connection going outside the place where you are:
There's a private telephone if I need to make any outside calls.
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the most that would be accepted or possible:
The outside limit/figure would be $350.
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Outside
Outside is an adverb, an adjective, a preposition or a noun. …

Idiom

the outside world
outside
adverb, preposition
uk
/ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/ us
/ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/
A2
not in a particular building or room, but near it:
She sat for two hours on the floor outside his room.
A2
not in a particular place:
Nobody outside this room must ever know what we have discussed.
not within or part of something:
I'm afraid that would be outside my job description.
outside of mainly US
except for:
Outside of us three, no one knows anything about the problem, yet.
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Outside
Outside is an adverb, an adjective, a preposition or a noun. …
outside
noun [ C usually singular ]
uk
/ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/ /ˈaʊt.saɪd/ us
/ˌaʊtˈsaɪd/ /ˈaʊt.saɪd/

outside noun [C usually singular] (OUTER PART)

B2
the outer part or side of something:
The outside of the house needs painting.
the outside The house looks larger when looked at from the outside.
The company needs to get help from outside (= from people who work for other organizations).
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outside noun [C usually singular] (LARGEST AMOUNT)

at the outside
used to say that an amount is the most possible in a situation:
The job will take about ten days at the outside.
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Outside
Outside is an adverb, an adjective, a preposition or a noun. …
outside
adjective [ before noun ]
uk
/ˈaʊt.saɪd/ us
/ˈaʊt.saɪd/
slight:
outside chance There's still an outside chance that Scotland will make it into the World Cup.
outside possibility There is an outside possibility that discussions can be restarted.
outside bet She has become an outside bet for Wimbledon.
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Outside
Outside is an adverb, an adjective, a preposition or a noun. …
(Definition of outside from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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outside
noun [ U ]
us
/ˈɑʊtˈsɑɪd, ˈɑʊtˌsɑɪd/

outside noun [U] (OUTER PART)

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the outer part of something, or the area or side that faces out or can be seen:
She stood in the snow on the outside, watching him.
outside
preposition, adjective, adverb [ not gradable ]
us
/ˌɑʊtˈsɑɪd, ˈɑʊtˌsɑɪd/

outside preposition, adjective, adverb [not gradable] (NOT PART OF SOMETHING)

not within or part of something:
I live just outside (of) Baltimore.
Cars, movies, and radio linked small towns to the outside world.
outside of
Outside of means other than or except for:
There are few cities outside of Boston, New York, and Chicago where baseball fans get this excited.
outside
adjective
us
/ˌɑʊtˈsɑɪd, ˈɑʊtˌsɑɪd/

outside adjective (SLIGHT)

slight, small, or unlikely:
There’s an outside chance that Boston will make it to the playoffs.
(Definition of outside from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of outside

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That is, a person can describe both perceptions of the outside world and plans for action.
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There is an increasing need for assessments of the status of monkey populations both within and outside protected areas.
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The dancers returned because they could use it as a tool to formulate body actions which were outside their normal performance routines.
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Inspired by progressive practices, they stressed the connections between learning inside the school and life outside it.
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Outside this road, a green belt (100 metres wide) separated the city and surrounding countryside.
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At that time, children's services took the lion's share of qualified social workers and, outside hospitals, older people received little service from qualified social workers.
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As discussed in the introduction, the ability to generate symbolic play requires the ability to produce actions outside the context in which they typically occur.
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Language can no longer be construed simply as a medium, relatively or potentially transparent, for the representation or expression of a reality outside itself.
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Our experiences are continuous with those in the universe outside us by which we are affected - and which in turn we affect.
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Some values of the maximum speed of the vertical velocity inside and outside the front are also given in table 1.
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The region outside the core is either visible or not visible throughout the whole sequence, including the sections in the wake.
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Without rank-2 polymorphism, universal quantification must be completely "outside" all other types.
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In contrast, in traditional design, the role of functions and advantages of functional representation and manipulation are often unclear to researchers outside of the community.
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Answering this involves stepping outside the discipline of the system designer and understanding the social, material and organisational aspects of medical work.
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If spatial understanding is regarded as outside conceptual structure, why is social understanding regarded as inside conceptual structure?
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Translations of outside

in Chinese (Traditional)
在外面（的），在室外（的）, 在…外面（的）, 外來（的）…
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在外面（的），在室外（的）, 在…外面（的）, 外来（的）…
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बाहेरचे, च्या बाहेर, बाहेरील…
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（建物、部屋）の外で（へ、に）, ～の外で（へ、に）, 屋外に…
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extérieur/-eure, externe, à l’extérieur…
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ஒரு கட்டிடத்திற்குள் இல்லை, ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட கட்டிடம் அல்லது அறையில் அல்ல, ஆனால் அதற்கு அருகில்…
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(भवन के) बाहर, बाहरी, बाहर…
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બહારની બાજુ, ઈમારતની અંદર નહિ., કોઈ ખાસ ઇમારત કે ઓરડામાં નહિ…
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yderside, yder-, udefrakommende…
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utsida, yttersida, utvändig…
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di luar, luar, tipis…
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das Äußere, Außen-…, außerhalb…
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باہر کا, بیرونی, باہر (کسی خاص جگہ سے باہر)…
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зовнішня сторона, зовнішній, сторонній…
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బయట, భాగం కానీ, ఏదో ఒకదాని బయటి భాగం లేదా బయటి వైపు…
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বাইরে, বিল্ডিংয়ের ভিতরে নয়, একটি নির্দিষ্ট বিল্ডিং বা কক্ষে নয়…
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vnějšek, vnější, venkovní…
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bagian luar, luar, kecil…
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ข้างนอก, ภายนอก, โอกาสน้อย…
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bề ngoài, phía ngoài, từ bên ngoài…
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fuori di, fuori, esterno…
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