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Definition: Outskirt |
OutskirtNoun1. A part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "outskirt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
Synonym: OutskirtSynonym: fringe (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distance | Outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes; long range, giant's stride. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "outskirt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | الضواحي. (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 郊外 (outskirts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | مرز (Balk, Border, Bound, Boundary, Mark, Precinct, Rand, Ridge), حومه (Environs, Vicinity), حوالی (Skirt), حاشیه (Border, Braid, Brim, Brink, Gloss, Margin, Purl, Rand, Verge), دورازمرکز (Outlying). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | périphérie (outer quarter, outlying district, outskirts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | orlo (border, brim, brink, brow, edge, edging, fringe, hem, kerb, lip, rand, rim, verge). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 변두리 (outskirts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | outskirtay рухатися уздовж кордону, межувати (abut, adjoin, affront, approach, border, butt, neighbor upon, neighbour upon, touch on, verge), прилягати (abut, adjoin, flank, neighbor upon, neighbour upon). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "outskirt": outskirts. (additional references) | |
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"Outskirt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: attoskirt, outskirter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "outskirt" (pronounced ou"tsker't) |
| 4 | -s k er' t | miniskirt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tourist, turkois. | |
-2 letters: outsit, suitor, trouts, tutors. | |
-3 letters: riots, rotis, roust, routs, skirt, stirk, stork, stour, stout, strut, sturt, tiros, toits, torsi, torsk, torts, torus, tours, touts, trios, trois, trots, trout, trust, turks, tutor. | |
-4 letters: irks, kirs, kist, kits, kois, kors, kris, orts, ours, oust, outs, riot, risk, roti, rots, rout, rusk, rust, ruts. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outskirts, outtricks, strikeout. | |
+2 letters: strikeouts. | |
+5 letters: counterstrike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 75 74 73 6B 69 72 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ..- - ... -.- .. .-. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110101 01110100 01110011 01101011 01101001 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O u t s k i r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0075 0074 0073 006B 0069 0072 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4987868577758486 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabo, 아라비아, арабська мова, арабський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, cinese, 중국, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, francese, "랑스, французька мова, французький |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italiano, 이탈리아, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, 한국, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, inglese, 영국, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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