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query
If you are o______, you are not inside a building but are quite close to it.If you are outside, you are not inside a building but are quite close to it.
'Was the car inside the garage?'—'No, it was still outside.'.
I stepped outside and pulled up my collar against the cold mist.
Outside, the light was fading rapidly.
The shouting outside grew louder.
The victim was outside a shop when he was attacked.
...the outside temperature.
...an outside toilet.
word outside
full-definition
noun
The outside of something is the part which surrounds or encloses the rest of it.
...the outside of the building.
Cook over a fairly high heat until the outsides are browned.
...high up on the outside wall.
adverb
If you are outside, you are not inside a building but are quite close to it.
'Was the car inside the garage?'—'No, it was still outside.'.
I stepped outside and pulled up my collar against the cold mist.
Outside, the light was fading rapidly.
The shouting outside grew louder.
The victim was outside a shop when he was attacked.
...the outside temperature.
...an outside toilet.
preposition
If you are outside a room, you are not in it but are in the passage or area next to it.
She'd sent him outside the classroom.
He stood in the narrow hallway just outside the door.
They heard voices coming from outside in the corridor.
She heard the dog on the landing outside.
People or things outside a country, town, or region are not in it.
...an old castle outside Budapest.
By broadcasting from 'pirate' radio ships based outside British territorial waters, they avoided official regulation.
...theatres both in and outside London.
Peace cannot be imposed from the outside by the United States or anyone else.
Outside a particular institution or field of activity means in other fields of activity or in general life.
The condition is practically unknown outside psychiatry clinics.
...the largest merger ever to take place outside the oil industry.
Something that is outside a particular range of things is not included within it.
She is a beautiful boat, but way, way outside my price range.
When Cathy sings about love, you feel that she's singing about something outside her experience.
Something that happens outside a particular period of time happens at a different time from the one mentioned .
They are open outside normal daily banking hours.
...nor does it help if your job involves working outside normal office hours.
Outside of is used to introduce the only thing or person that prevents your main statement from being completely true .
adjective
When you talk about the outside world, you are referring to things that happen or exist in places other than your own home or community .
...a side of Morris's character she hid carefully from the outside world.
It's important to have outside interests.
The scheme was good for the prisoners because it brought them outside into the community.
On a road with two separate carriageways, the outside lanes are the ones which are closest to its centre. Compare inside .
It was travelling in the outside lane at 78mph.
...coming up on the outside.
Outside people or organizations are not part of a particular organization or group.
The company now makes much greater use of outside consultants.
...church services given on Sundays by outside chaplains.
He is hoping to recruit a chairman from outside the company.
inflections outsides
cefr-level A2

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