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outwards

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out·ward  (outwrd)
adj.
1. Of, located on, or moving toward the outside or exterior; outer.
2. Relating to the physical self: a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections.
3. Purely external; superficial: outward composure.
adv.
1. also out·wards (-wrdz) Toward the outside; away from a central point.
2. Archaic On the outside; externally.
n.
The material or external world: "There is nothing here,/Which, from the outward to the inward brought,/Molded thy baby thought" (Tennyson).

[Middle English, from Old English tweard : t, out; see out + -weard, -ward.]

outward·ness n.

outwards [ˈaʊtwədz], outward
adv
towards the outside; out
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Adv.1.outwards - toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!"
Translations
outwards [ˈaʊtwərdz] outward [ˈaʊtwərd] adv
[move, spread, open] → vers l'extérieur
The top door opened outwards → La porte du haut ouvrait vers l'extérieur
(= beyond oneself) to look outwards → s'ouvrir vers l'extérieur
outwards
advnach außen; the journey outwardsdie Hinreise
outwards outward [ˈaʊtwəd(z)] advverso l'esterno
outward bound → in partenza
outwards outward [ˈaʊtwəd(z)] advverso l'esterno
outward bound → in partenza


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He was astonished at this, and again touching the ring he turned the collet outwards and reappeared; he made several trials of the ring, and always with the same result-when he turned the collet inwards he became invisible, when outwards he reappeared.
Once and twice his gasping face and clutching fingers broke up through the still green water, sweeping outwards in the swirl of the current.
The latter is a very large, bright, clean, cheerful apartment with three windows in it, and a partition-wall which, running outwards from the front wall, makes a sort of little den, a sort of extra room, for myself.
 
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