Outside
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outside
noun[ U ]
us/ˈɑʊtˈsɑɪd, ˈɑʊtˌsɑɪd/

outsidenoun[U] (OUTER PART)

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/

outsidepreposition, 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/

outsideadjective (SLIGHT)

slight, small, or unlikely:
There’s an outside chance that Boston will make it to the playoffs.

Examples of outside

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That is, a person can describe both perceptions of the outside world and plans for action.
There is an increasing need for assessments of the status of monkey populations both within and outside protected areas.
The dancers returned because they could use it as a tool to formulate body actions which were outside their normal performance routines.
Inspired by progressive practices, they stressed the connections between learning inside the school and life outside it.
Outside this road, a green belt (100 metres wide) separated the city and surrounding countryside.
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.
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.
Language can no longer be construed simply as a medium, relatively or potentially transparent, for the representation or expression of a reality outside itself.
The first option seems unlikely, especially given that all women were unlikely to have had paid employment outside the home.
Our experiences are continuous with those in the universe outside us by which we are affected - and which in turn we affect.
Some values of the maximum speed of the vertical velocity inside and outside the front are also given in table 1.
The region outside the core is either visible or not visible throughout the whole sequence, including the sections in the wake.
Without rank-2 polymorphism, universal quantification must be completely "outside" all other types.
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.
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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