adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outward/visible sign (= one that people can see clearly )
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Kim received the news without showing any visible sign of emotion.
the outward appearance
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Beneath the outward appearance of confidence, she is very shy.
the outward journey (= the journey to a place )
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The outward journey seemed long and slow.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appearance
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But to all outward appearance she was, let it be said, the slightest bit slatternly.
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Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance , this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
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It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display.
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To all outward appearance , he looked benign enough, with a mild, unsullied face, the perfect choirboy.
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It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror.
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What it does reveal is a teenager, to every outward appearance comfortable with his lot.
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The outward appearance of gloomy taciturnity was therefore taken for the whole man.
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This timekeeper, now known as H-5, has all the internal complexity of H-4 but assumes an austere outward appearance .
form
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This tension between change and continuity is the key to understanding the inner meaning as opposed to the outward form of working-class sport.
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Though they seemed to have refined the outward form of marriage, I suspected that underneath not everything ran smoothly.
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It is not always the missionary who is reluctant to change outward forms .
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The effect of a strong inner beauty, with no outward form , for example, can be both powerful and disturbing.
journey
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According to Ziad, Jamal had no problem at Netzarim junction on his outward journey .
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That moon flight as an outward journey was outward into ourselves.
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She took no pleasure from the countryside as on the outward journey .
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The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
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It does not retrace the zig-zags of its outward journey .
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Somehow it has measured and remembered the distance it ran on each stage of its outward journey .
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Their outward journey was comparatively easy.
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Alternatively, for the outward journey only, cancellation coverage up to the holiday invoice cost. 8.
sign
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These markers are outward signs portraying whether or not individuals and collections of people belong to the same ethnic group.
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People are born with these defects but often show no outward signs of problems.
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She gave no outward signs of her problems when she went on a walkabout.
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There were few outward signs , however, that the samurai was ready to sheath his sword.
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He would probably try releasing Osman even if he gave no outward sign of acquiescence.
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Through much of 1984, there were few outward signs of trouble.
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Despite these tensions, government delegations came and went; the outward signs were that all was well.
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They represented one more barrier between the stricken and the hale, one more outward sign of difference.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an outward movement of the arm
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My parents showed no outward signs of affection.
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The outward flight was very uncomfortable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there were no outward signs that diplomatic efforts would soon defuse the fighting.
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Despite the casual outward attitude toward injury and pain, the men deeply feared wounds.
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Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct.
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The outward tips of his bushy eyebrows were tilted upwards slightly, giving him a demonic appearance.
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They represented one more barrier between the stricken and the hale, one more outward sign of difference.
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Wright had presided with calmness over six years of considerable outward change, while preserving the inner spirit of the School unaltered.