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EXTERIOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exterior mean?
• EXTERIOR (noun)
The noun EXTERIOR has 2 senses:
1. the region that is outside of something
2. the outer side or surface of something
Familiarity information: EXTERIOR used as a noun is rare.
• EXTERIOR (adjective)
The adjective EXTERIOR has 1 sense:
1. situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building
Familiarity information: EXTERIOR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The region that is outside of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
exterior; outside
Hypernyms ("exterior" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exterior"):
open; open air; out-of-doors; outdoors (where the air is unconfined)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The outer side or surface of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
exterior; outside
Hypernyms ("exterior" is a kind of...):
surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building
Context example:
exterior paints
Similar:
out (outside or external)
outside (leading to or from the outside)
Also:
out-of-door; outdoor; outside (located, suited for, or taking place in the open air)
Attribute:
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Antonym:
interior (situated within or suitable for inside a building)
Context examples
The interior branch carries blood to the brain and eyes, and the exterior branch carries blood to the face, tongue, and outside parts of the head.
(Carotid artery, NCI Dictionary)
The exterior part of the bone.
(Bone Surface, NCI Thesaurus)
Cell surface proteins on B cells receive signals from the exterior, adhere to other cells, and transmit signals to other cells.
(B Lymphocyte Cell Surface Molecule Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The part of the cell membrane that faces the exterior of the cell.
(Cell Surface, NCI Thesaurus)
An activity defined at the global library level whose intention is to obtain pictures of the interior or exterior of the body usually for diagnostic reasons.
(Defined Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
One realised the red-hot energy which underlay Holmes’s phlegmatic exterior when one saw the sudden change which came over him from the moment that he entered the fatal apartment.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The completed action of obtaining pictures of the interior or exterior of the body usually for diagnostic reasons.
(Performed Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
The tubular tract in female animals through which eggs are discharged either to the exterior or, in mammals, to the uterus.
(Oviduct, NCI Thesaurus)
His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The free part of the epithelium that faces the exterior surface or the lumen of an organ.
(Apical Domain of the Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)
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