Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: outwards
IPA transcription: ['aʊtwɚdz]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: outward, outwards
    Meaning: toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!"
Usage examples
  • Air exploded outwards, and Doc went with it.
  • "On the next!"--again brought the men facing outwards, the ladies inwards--and so on.
  • This movement brought them opposite, and so they were in a circle, at which they balanced, the men facing outwards, the women inwards.
  • They spring up sheaf-wise, straight upright for a time, and only bending a little outwards above, to give room for the branching heads of bloom.
  • So far from it, I still lay nearly level with the plane of the horizon; for the change of situation which I had acquired, had forced the bottom of the car considerably outwards from my position, which was accordingly one of the most imminent and deadly peril.
  • Granted that both images are extravagances, are perversions of the pure creed, it must be a real divergence which could produce such opposite extravagances. The Buddhist is looking with a peculiar intentness inwards. The Christian is staring with a frantic intentness outwards.
  • Hitherto the steam supply-pipe emitting the jet has been placed outside of the circle of the wheel; but the future form seems likely to be one in which the axis of the wheel is itself the pipe which contains the steam, but which permits it to escape outwards to the circumference of the wheel.