EXTERIOR


Meaning of EXTERIOR in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

calm

So you see, beneath that calm exterior lies a highly unstable child.

With her soft voice and her calm exterior , she absolutely would not let creditors off the hook.

cool

There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior .

It all added up to the fact that below Silas's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Belle finds a sweet soul behind his gruff exterior .

the exterior of a house

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Any tumultuous exterior I offer is merely to draw the crowds.

Beneath that assured exterior , thought Meredith, she's vulnerable.

It smashed against the rusted freight car behind her, shattering the glass exterior and buckling the sensitive anode.

The exterior of Linköping Cathedral is unimpressive.

The concrete garden path has been bricked over and vines adorn the white-painted exterior .

The dome is protected by a timber roof and is tiled on the exterior .

The interior is still in ruinous condition though the exterior is fairly intact.

With her soft voice and her calm exterior , she absolutely would not let creditors off the hook.

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

wall

Drawbacks: The exterior walls get very hot during combination cooking.

The framing went up, the exterior walls , the siding.

The other side's the exterior wall of the castle.

To let in light, the architects left a few gaps-windows-in the essentially monolithic exterior walls .

On the outside of the same part of the Abbey, workers are busy renovating the exterior wall .

These arches are visible on the exterior wall surfaces.

The interior is unusual with columns set on circular plan but with flatter, straight sides to the exterior walls .

In the exterior walls prison chambers still survive which are of Romanesque date, while the audience chamber possesses a fine wall-fireplace.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

exterior paint

the car's sleek exterior design

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Drawbacks: The exterior walls get very hot during combination cooking.

With the leap to exterior grandeur from the 1870s went a new concentration on the magnificence of the interior arrangements of stations.

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