outer world

collocation in English

meaningsofouterandworld

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outer
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈaʊ.tər/
us
/ˈaʊ.t̬ɚ/
at a greater distance from ...
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world
noun
uk
/wɜːld/
us
/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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(Definition ofouterandworldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofouter world

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Theouterworldis figured as a different nation.
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These projects challenge safety and privacy through their apparent desire to break through the barrier separating the collective interior from theouterworld.
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Self-awareness of unlimited spiritual energy is needed for achieving self-liberation and balance between the inner world andouterworld.
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From the perspective of a controller process the data exchange with theouterworldconsists simply of reading data from and writing data to the repository.
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This beg ins with the perception of theouterworld, and continues to develop, culminating with the feeling for other people and responsibility towards society and state.
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The inner world matches theouterworld, with the only difference being that the latter seems more grotesque than it appears to be in the dream.
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In systems that need to interact with an external environment, domain elements can be produced by an acquisition system that retrieves information about theouterworld.
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Like an onion, each chapter is peeled away revealing another skin of embodied thought, a fresh new connection between an inner andouterworld, between composer and performer.
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I chose the former because opportunities to see theouterworldare never to be ignored.
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To my mind, this deprives them of contact with theouterworld.
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Even more is this true of the aspect which we show to theouterworld.
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The general standard of office equipment in theouterworldis improving day by day.
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Human beings have minds that contain not just images of themselves and theouterworld, but also cultural artifacts that can be used in lieu of those mental images.
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At least it provides the new grouping with a public, high-level channel of communication with theouterworld.
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By all means let experts go from these teaching hospitals and spread their standard in theouterworld.
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We are dependent on our communications with theouterworldas no nation in history has ever been dependent before.
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Theouterworldis often depicted as hostile and incognisable.
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This road connects the area with theouterworld.
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That means that assistance given from theouterworldinvolves a certain degree of control in order to see that money is properly spent.
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So the people have to turn to the film for their escape to theouterworld, and that is now going to be cut down.
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Such a belief is grotesque and ridiculous, and would be unbelievable to any mind which looked at theouterworldthrough clear eyes.
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For the greater part, however, youth passes into the post-education void and faces austere conditions in theouterworld, with little enduring care.
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There are also sensory seizures such as temporal lobe epilepsy which result in altered perception of theouterworldand inappropriate behaviour.
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However, we should not assume that they will submit indefinitely to the closure of one of their main accesses to theouterworld.
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I saw men who, to theouterworld, had to preserve public appearance, living within their doors on the slenderest margins between poverty and actual want.
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