different between outer vs oater

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t?/, [?a???]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?(?)
• Homophone: outta (in some accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ?tre, ?tera, ?terra (“outer”), equivalent to out +? -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”).

Adjective

outer (comparative (rare) outermore, superlative outermost)

1. Outside; external.
2. Farther from the centre of the inside.

Antonyms

• inner

Translations

Noun

outer (plural outers)

1. An outer part.
2. (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
3. (military, firearms) The 4th circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
4. A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
5. (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.

   We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.

Translations

Derived terms

• outer space
• outerness

Etymology 2

out (verb) +? -er (“agent suffix”)

Noun

outer (plural outers)

1. Someone who admits to something publicly.
2. Someone who outs another.
   • 2002, Simon Gage, Lisa Richards, Howard Wilmot, Queer: The Ultimate User's Guide (page 88)

     From the early 90s, these were some of the fiercest debates raging in the gay press and in gay and straight bars worldwide as blabbermouths blabbed, sometimes just for the sheer hell of it, and gay celebrities ran for cover or bit the bullet and pipped the outers to the post.

3. One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
4. An ouster; dispossession.
5. (Britain, politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.

Synonyms

• (One who supports leaving the EU): Brexiter
• (One who outs others): See Thesaurus:informant

Antonyms

• (One who supports leaving the EU): inner

Anagrams

• Toure, outre, outré, rouet, route, utero-

German

Adjective

outer

1. inflection of out:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

English

Etymology

oat +? -er (“Variety -er”). ~1945-50, alluding to the fodder for horses, which are common in the movies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?(?)

Homophone: odor (some dialects)

Noun

oater (plural oaters)

1. (entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
   • 1949 January 10, The Great American Horse Opera, in Life,

     In recent years the western or horse opera, known in the trade as the "oater," has come to be recognized as an art form just as formal as the ballet or the symphony. In essence it is the American morality play. To prove his contention that all this is so, Life Photographer John Florea took these unusual pictures during the filming of Yellow Sky. This is a $1,450,000 western with big-name stars (Gregory Peck, Anne Bancroft, Richard Widmark) and technical talent from 20th Century's top drawer, but is basically a typical oater.

   • 1995, Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath Mills, A Writer's Companion,

     By far the more common was the low-budget "hoss opera" or "oater," ground out in relentless numbers by studios such as Universal and Republic, and designed basically for edification of the young, who took them in on Fridays and Saturdays along with the episode of a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel, and perhaps a bouncing-ball sing-along. There were, to be sure, degrees of the oater; a somewhat more subtle version, designed for adult as well as child viewing, was also made.

Synonyms

• horse opera, oat opera

See also

• soap opera
• sudser

Anagrams

• Erato, orate