different between outwork vs frontier

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

From Middle English frounter, from Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??n?t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??n?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: fron?tier

Noun

frontier (plural frontiers)

1. The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region
2. The most advanced or recent version of something; leading edge.

   the frontier of civilization

3. (obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.

Synonyms

• (part of country bordering another): marches; the border

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

frontier

1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; coterminous.

   a frontier town

Translations

Verb

frontier (third-person singular simple present frontiers, present participle frontiering, simple past and past participle frontiered)

1. (intransitive) To live as pioneers on frontier territory.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To place on the frontier.