different between outside vs beer

English

Alternative forms

• owtside (obsolete)

Etymology

From out +? side.

Pronunciation

• (adjective): enPR: out?s?d, IPA^(key): /?a?tsa?d/
• (adverb, noun, preposition): enPR: out-s?d?, IPA^(key): /a?t?sa?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Noun

outside (plural outsides)

1. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.

   He's repainting the outside of his house.

   • 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais, Gargantua, "The Author's Prologue to the First Book"

     Silenes of old swere little boxes, like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries, painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures, as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese, horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, thiller harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, ...

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,

     The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.

   • 1911, Cab, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside.

2. The external appearance of someone or something.

   Her outside was stern, but inside was a heart of gold.

3. The space beyond some limit or boundary.

   Viewed from the outside, the building seemed unremarkable.

   • I in great Transport threw open the Door of my Chamber, and found the greatest Part of the Family standing on the Outside in a very great Consternation

   • 1967, The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941,

     Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones? / Do you know what it's like on the outside?

   • 1982, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Malcolm Mclaren, Buffalo Gals

     Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside / 'Round the outside / 'Round the outside / Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside / And do-si-do your partners.

4. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.

5. The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.

6. The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.

7. (dated, Britain, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     The outsides did as outsides always do. They were very cheerful and talkative at the beginning of every stage, and very dismal and sleepy in the middle […]

Usage notes

• Rarely used with an.

Translations

Adjective

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
   • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career,

     Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
2. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
   • 1938 (believed written c.1933), H. P. Lovecraft, The Book,

     Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side.

   • 1976, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles,

     It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.

   • 1993 September 3, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Report to the Justice and Treasury Departments regarding law enforcement interaction with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas,

     Nor did they consult with outside persons in religious studies, sociology of religion, or psychology of religion.

3. Away from the interior or center of something.
   • 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics (?ISBN), page 731:

     As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.

4. Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.

   The Board did not trust outside information about their rivals.

   • 1968, Barney G. Glaser, Organizational Careers, Transaction Publishers (?ISBN), page 23:

     Positions in organizations are being vacated continually through death and retirement, promotion and demotion. Replacements may be drawn from the outside ("an outside man") or from within the organization.

5. Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
   • 2004, Viktor Zander, Identity and Marginality among New Australians: Religion and Ethnicity in Victoria's Slavic Baptist Community, Walter de Gruyter (?ISBN), page 88:

     Although a marriage to "one of ours" was encouraged, an outside marriage was not condemned if it would be to a believer of a similar faith. Some of the immigrants' children married Australians and joined Australian Churches.

6. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.

7. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.

8. Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.

   the outside lane of the motorway

9. (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)

   Antonym: inside

   • 1994, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Gilles Pison, Nuptiality in Sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary anthropological and demographic perspectives (Oxford University Press, USA):

     Isaac Nathan's Christian wife served as godmother to his outside son, born after their Christian marriage. She allowed the boy, but not his mother, to live with her, her husband, and their two children.

   • 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 158:

     An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]

   • 2009, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Yoruba women, work, and social change (Indiana Univ. Pr.):

     The legitimacy and inheritance rights of children were questionable, because colonial law did not acknowledge the validity of an outside marriage contracted after a monogamous, Christian one.

   • 2013, John C.S. Fray, Janice G Douglas, Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Blacks, Springer (?ISBN), page 78:

     A husband will thus have responsibilities to his own household, as well as to those in which his “outside” children reside.

   • 2014, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, Gender, Kinship and Power, page 256:

     The latter is her “outside” child in reference to her conjugal tie at the time. Should she leave this man and move in again with the father of her first child, then the three younger children assume the place of “outside” children, [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:outside.

Translations

Adverb

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.

   Residents of the city rarely ventured outside.

   2. (colloquial) Not in prison.
      • 1964, Merfyn Turner, A Pretty Sort of Prison, page 15:

        It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal [...] he's lost when he's outside.

2. Outdoors.

Translations

Preposition

outside

1. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
   • 1919 June 28, the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, Treaty of Versailles, Part IV—German Rights and Interests outside Germany,

     In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.

   • 1982, 97th Congress of the United States, Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982,

     There is jurisdiction over an offense under section 601 committed outside the United States if the individual committing the offense is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
2. Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.

   tourists from outside the country

3. Near, but not in.
   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds,

     Up the hill Richmond town was burning briskly; outside the town of Richmond there was no trace of the Black Smoke.

   • 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, ?ISBN, outside back cover:

     Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

   • 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, "Beyond Congregations", OY! (magazine section), St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 63, number 50, page 24:

     Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old^[sic] son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland.

4. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

Antonyms

• inside

Related terms

• withoutside

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• dies out, side out, sudoite, tedious

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bere, from Old English b?or (“beer”), from Proto-West Germanic *beu?, from Proto-Germanic *beuz? (“beer”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bjoor, West Frisian bier, German Low German Beer, Dutch bier, German Bier, Icelandic bjór (“beer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??(?)/, /b??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (near–square merger) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophone: bier

Noun

beer (countable and uncountable, plural beers)

1. (uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beer
2. (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
3. (uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
4. (countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

5. (countable) A variety of the above beverages.

Derived terms

Pages starting with “beer”.

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: bia
• ? Alabama: biya
• ? Bengali: ?????? (bi?ar)
• ? Burmese: ???? (bhiya)
• ? Chinese: ?? (píji?)
• ? Hausa: biya
• ? Hawaiian: bia
• ? Hindi: ???? (biyar)
• ? Khmer: ??? (bi?)
• ? Maori: pia
• ? Malay: bir
• ? Swahili: bia
• ? Telugu: ???? (b?ru)
• ? Thai: ?????? (biia)
• ? Zulu: ubhiya

Translations

Verb

beer (third-person singular simple present beers, present participle beering, simple past and past participle beered)

1. (informal, transitive) To give beer to (someone)
   • 1870, Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta in Clement Scott, Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes, Robson and Sons, pages 303–304:

     No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

   • 2010, Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1, Carolrhoda Lab, page 121:

     “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”

   • 2013, Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World, Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124:

     I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’

   • 2013, R. D. Power, Forbidden, page 39:

     “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.

Etymology 2

From Middle English beere, equivalent to be +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bi.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bi?.?/

Noun

beer (plural beers)

1. (nonstandard) One who is or exists.

Alternative forms

• be-er

Related terms

• afterbear
• forebear

Anagrams

• Bree, Eber, Erbe, Reeb, bere, bree, eber, reeb

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??r/

Etymology 1

From Dutch beer, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

Noun

beer (plural bere, diminutive beertjie)

1. bear

Etymology 2

From Dutch beer, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz

Noun

beer (plural bere)

1. boar, male swine

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?r/, [b??r]
• Hyphenation: beer
• Rhymes: -e?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch b?re, from Old Dutch *bero, from Proto-West Germanic *ber?, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

Noun

beer m (plural beren, diminutive beertje n)

1. A bear, any member of the family Ursidae

2. (figuratively) A person who is physically impressive and/or crude

   Wat een beer van een vent daar voorin, he?

   What a bear of a guy there in front, huh?

Derived terms

• bere-
• berenbijt
• berenklauw
• berenjacht
• berenkuil
• berenleider
• berenmarkt
• berenmuts
• beren op de weg zien
• berentemmer
• berenval
• berin
• brombeer
• dansbeer
• gummybeer
• knuffelbeer
• teddybeer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: beer

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bêer, from Old Dutch *b?r, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Noun

beer m (plural beren, diminutive beertje n)

1. boar (male swine)

2. buttress; protective external construction, notably against ice or supporting the weight of the main building
3. A boar-shaped type of battering ram
4. A male badger

Derived terms

• beervarken
• de beer is los
• steunbeer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: beer

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch bere, from Old Dutch [Term?], from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *berm? (“yeast”), related to Old English beorma, Albanian burmë.

Noun

beer m (plural beren, diminutive beertje n)

1. (now dialectal) liquid, notably human manure (excrement gathered in a pit to fertilize)

Derived terms

• beerkar
• beerput
• beersteker
• beertobbe

Etymology 4

Borrowed from German Bär. Cognate to etymology 1.

Noun

beer m (plural beren)

1. (college slang) debt

   Synonym: schuld

2. (college slang) creditor (one to whom one owes debt)

   Synonym: schuldeiser

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Latin

Verb

beer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of be?

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bier, from Old Dutch bier, from Proto-West Germanic *beu?, from Proto-Germanic *beuz?.

Noun

beer n

1. beer
2. any alcoholic drink

Inflection

• The dative and accusative are obsolete nowadays, the nominative is used instead.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *b?r, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Noun

bêer m

1. boar, male pig

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: beer
• West Flemish: beir

Further reading

• “beer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page bere

Old French

Alternative forms

• baer, baher, baier, baer, beier, beyer

Etymology

Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”).

Verb

beer

1. (transitive) to open
2. (intransitive) to open
3. (chiefly) to pant; to breathe heavily
4. (figuratively) to desire; to lust for

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Derived terms

• bäee, bëee (“opening”)
  • Middle French: baie
    • Middle French: baie
  • ? Middle English: bay
    • English: bay

Descendants

• Middle French: beer
  • French: bayer
• Norman: béguer
• Picard: beyer
• Walloon: bawî

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (beer)

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *baar-

Noun

beer ?

1. liver, cultivated field, garden

Annarita Puglielli; Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012) , “beer”, in Qamuuska af-Soomaaliga, ?ISBN, page 101