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OUTDOOR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
Example:
a beautiful outdoor setting for the wedding
Synonyms:
out-of-door; outdoor; outside
Classified under:
Similar:
alfresco; open-air (in the open air)
outdoorsy (characteristic of or suitable to outdoor life)
Also:
exterior (situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building)
Antonym:
indoor (located, suited for, or taking place within a building)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pertaining to or concerning the outdoors or outdoor activities
Example:
outdoor education is the area of teacher training concerned with training for outdoor activities
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
outdoors (where the air is unconfined)
Context examples:
A new moon in Aries, your third solar house, usually points to a sunny, warm location that would offer you lots of outdoor activities.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Outdoor air pollution has long been linked to major health conditions such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
(Breathing Dirty Air May Harm Kidneys, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Even when that weather was broken, and continuous rain set in for some days, no damp seemed cast over enjoyment: indoor amusements only became more lively and varied, in consequence of the stop put to outdoor gaiety.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His face, however, was tanned of a dull yellow tint, with a leathery, poreless look, which spoke of rough outdoor doings, and the little pointed beard which he wore, in deference to the prevailing fashion, was streaked and shot with gray.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles; and to him, as to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water had been a tonic and a health preserver.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
To better explore the causal role of mindfulness on lower negative states of being, Yang completed a second study, in which older adults who participated in an outdoor mindfulness activity then reported on their feelings of stress, anxiety and depression.
(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
They found that exposure to exhaust particles from outdoor air pollution was associated with DNA methylation changes.
(Combatting epigenetic effects from outdoor air pollution, NIH)
I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
