单词 | exterior |
释义 | exterior (once / 735 pages) adjn Something that's exterior is on the outside of some structure or object. An exterior door on a house opens to the outdoors, rather than connecting one room to another. Exterior house paint is made for painting the shingles or siding of your home, not the walls of your living room, and the exterior finish of a car is on the outside. You can also use exterior as a noun, to mean the outside of something: "The exterior of this salad bowl is a weird shade of yellow." Exterior is a Latin word, a comparative of exterus, "on the outside, outward, or foreign." WORD FAMILYexterior: exteriorise, exteriorize, exteriorly, exteriors+/exteriorise: exteriorisation/exteriorize: exteriorization, exteriorized USAGE EXAMPLESPlanned work on the 161-year-old home includes mechanical system upgrades, landscape and grounds improvements, security enhancements and interior and exterior restoration work. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) From the exterior, the building possesses none of Prince’s flash. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Exterior materials include stainless steel, stucco and concrete. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building an exterior scene exterior grade plywood exterior paints Syn|Ant out outside or external outsideleading to or from the outside out-of-door, outdoor, outsidelocated, suited for, or taking place in the open air interior situated within or suitable for inside a building indoorwithin doors insidebeing or applying to the inside of a building indoorlocated, suited for, or taking place within a building 2n the outer side or surface of something Syn|Ant|Hyper outside inside, interior the inner or enclosed surface of something surface the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object 3n the region that is outside of something Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper outside inside, interior the region that is inside of something open, open air, out-of-doors, outdoors where the air is unconfined part, region the extended spatial location of something |
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