different between outdoor vs scoutcraft

English

Etymology

From out- +? door.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?t?d??/

Adjective

outdoor (not comparable)

1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]

   Synonyms: out-of-door, outside

   Antonyms: indoor, inside
2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 395:

     Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.

Derived terms

• outdoor education
• outdoor play

Related terms

• outdoors

Descendants

• ? German: Outdoor
• ? Japanese: ????? (autodoa)
• ? Portuguese: outdoor
• ? Spanish: outdoor

Translations

Verb

outdoor (third-person singular simple present outdoors, present participle outdooring, simple past and past participle outdoored)

1. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Further reading

• outdoor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English outdoor.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awt??.?d??/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awt.?(ð)???/

Noun

outdoor m (plural outdoors)

1. billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)

Spanish

Etymology

From English outdoor.

Adjective

outdoor (invariable)

1. outdoor

English

Etymology 1

From scout +? -craft.

Alternative forms

• Scoutcraft

Noun

scoutcraft (countable and uncountable, plural scoutcrafts)

1. (Scouting) A set of outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering

Etymology 2

From scout +? -craft.

Noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

1. (rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.
   • 1994, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd[1]:

     Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

   • 1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:

     In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.

   • 2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:

     He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?

   • 2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:

     In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.

   • 2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:

     The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.