different between outwork vs postern

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 Old French posterne, alteration of posterle, from Late Latin posterula (“back door”), from Latin posterus (“later”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?st(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?st?n/

Noun

postern (plural posterns)

1. A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance.
2. (archaic) By extension, a separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc.
3. (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
   • 1850, Dennis Hart Mahan, Summary of the Course of Permanent Fortification and of the Attack and Defence of Permanent Works

     The postern of the enceinte leads through the middle of the curtain, descending from the plane of sight to the ditch

Translations

Adjective

postern (comparative more postern, superlative most postern)

1. Situated at the rear; posterior.

Translations

Anagrams

• Preston, pronest, reptons

Swedish

Noun

postern

1. definite singular of poster

Anagrams

• portens, prosten, sporten, torpens