different between outwork vs dehors

English

Etymology

out- +? work

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûk?, IPA^(key): /a?t?w??k/
  • (noun): enPR: out?wûk, IPA^(key): /?a?tw??k/
• (General American)
  • (verb): enPR: out-wûrk?, IPA^(key): /a?t?w???k/
  • (noun): enPR: out?wûrk, IPA^(key): /?a?tw???k/

Verb

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

1. (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].

2. To work faster or harder than.

Noun

outwork (countable and uncountable, plural outworks)

1. (architecture, countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

Translations

Anagrams

• work out, workout

English

Etymology

French dehors (“outside”).

Noun

dehors

1. All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

Preposition

dehors

1. (law) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.

Anagrams

• Rhodes, Rohdes, hordes, horsed, reshod, shoder, shored

French

Etymology

From Middle French dehors, defors, from Old French defors, from Late Latin deforis, from Latin d? for?s (“outdoors”), from foris (“door”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adverb

dehors

1. outside

Antonyms

• dedans

Noun

dehors m (uncountable)

1. outside

Antonyms

• dedans

Derived terms

Preposition

dehors

1. outside; outside of

Antonyms

• dedans

Further reading

• “dehors” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Rhodes

Middle French

Alternative forms

• defors

Etymology

From Old French defors.

Adverb

dehors

1. outside

Descendants

• French: dehors