Adjective : the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage. ,outward appearances. ,an outward show of grief. ,an outward court. ,to make repairs on the outward walls of a house. ,outward influences. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : a ship bound outward. From Dictionary.com.
So, for what it is worth this is just my fondest wishes and positive vibes sent outwards from the War Room to all of you out there. From Wordnik.com. [New Pictures, For Your Viewing Pleasure] Reference
As you imply, it assumes that all the energy went into moving material outwards, which is a very efficient mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Crash Plume Visible to Spacecraft But Not Earth Telescopes | Universe Today] Reference
For what with them saddle peaks, and the rolls on the sand I have got, I don't know whether my inwards or my outwards are the sorest. From Wordnik.com. [For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War] Reference
Sooner or later the raging elements would inevitably push him farther and farther 'outwards'. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Mission Moluk]
Fig. 215: Sections of type T3 and T4 houses, with verandahs facing "outwards" and towards the "shanza". From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
However my desire for some sort of symmetry and my liking for "outwards" twisting meant I had to do front crossing for the left mitt and back crossing for the right mitt. From Wordnik.com. [smariek knits] Reference
Totty walked with her usual independence, with that swaying of the haunches and swing of the hands with palm turned outwards which is characteristic of the London work-girl. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
She stares outwards, as one in the fetters of an awful dream. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
The mouths of the joints are also turned outwards, and form a shoulder, as at B. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Right and left lungs collapsed, and turned outwards, to show the heart's outline. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
She held out her hands to him, palm outwards, as if warding off some present danger. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
In nine minutes the eyes were suffused; the optic axes were directed upwards and outwards. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
His fingers brushed a level surface which appeared to extend outwards for two or three feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
Over the last few months of the Labour selection I have faced my campaign outwards to Londoners. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Londoners' best bet to defeat Boris] Reference
I imagine the baby's hair evaporating inside of me, her eyes hollowing outwards and becoming liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Nearing the End] Reference
Her teeth sunk deep into the exposed veins of his neck, piercing the lines of blood and gushing it outwards. From Wordnik.com. [dinner time] Reference
A story that initially seems about one thing can blossom outwards, transforming into something about so much more. From Wordnik.com. [George Heymont: J.C. Lee: A Most Promising Playwright] Reference
The great lateral sinus is marked by the superior occipital ridge passing from the point B outwards to the mastoid process. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Cars whizzing through the night, in endless streams, forming a line of red leading inwards, a line of white leading outwards. From Wordnik.com. [City Crossing] Reference
To this have a cork, cut as tightly as possible, sloping outwards above the bottle some little distance, to afford a good grip. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The upper incisors are less overcrowded, being commonly pressed outwards by the lower arc of teeth fitting inside them in biting. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Her head was thus kept up to the wind, while there was no sufficient check to her drift astern and outwards towards the Goodwins. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
As the intercostal arteries pass outwards, traversing the intercostal spaces with their accompanying nerves, they diminish in size. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Spirit, and as the Spirit of the Air presses outwards through a hot thing, so doth the Air embrace the Taste about, and descends the subtile. From Wordnik.com. [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference
He stopped short just as they were leaving the bridge; raised his head to the black skies above him, reached upwards with both hands palm outwards. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The world is like a magnet, constantly pulling our energy outwards with activities, concerns and caring for others, whether its children, family or work. From Wordnik.com. [Ed and Deb Shapiro: Why Saying 'No' Is Saying 'Yes' to Yourself] Reference
A gimlet hole sufficiently large to admit of the passage of one wire should be made half an inch outwards from the centre of the site of each binding post. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Placed at first between the origin of the abductor pollicis and the calcaneum, the external plantar artery passes outwards between the short common flexor. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
It can be easily seen that these electric rays cut the equipotential surfaces at right angles, as they pass from the centre of the sun outwards into space. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
A separate brush may then be wetted and drawn along the edge of the dark streak in short strokes, causing the color to run outwards and become lighter as it approaches the axis. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
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