单词 | out there |
释义 | out thereadv.n.adj. A. adv. 1. Outside the realm of a person's experience; spec. out in the world; in existence. Also: beyond human experience; in a mystical or paranormal world. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [adverb] thereouta1300 outc1400 in being1483 existingly1601 existently1641 out therec1794 round1852 c1794 C. Dibdin Play upon Words 4 In searching out there, I soon lost myself here. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iii. 84 That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspirations; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. 1930 A. O. Lovejoy Revolt against Dualism iv. 118 Even though it [sc. a perceived object] be ‘out there’ somewhere in space, it is there only as an effect of a percipient event in me. 1969 Punch 22 Jan. p. vii/1 I never caught up with the Playboys and Playmates, but I knew they were out there somewhere. 1977 Time 23 May e11/2 Arguing, as always, for life Out There, he believes humans must press for answers. 1996 Independent 16 Jan. 8/8 There are families out there just not getting any help. 2. In the First World War (1914–18): at the Western Front; in France. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [adverb] > at or to front out front1865 up the line1916 out there1917 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 302 Out there, a term used in Blighty which means ‘in France’. Conscientious objectors object to going ‘out there’. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xii. 150 I want to kick myself for sitting here in luxury when there's so much to be done out there. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 312/2 Out there, England's equivalent for ‘Over there’. B. n. Philosophy. Reality or the world as external to and independent of any person perceiving it; objective reality. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] truthc1330 acta1398 in existencea1425 realty1440 veritya1634 reality1647 actualness1668 actuality1675 thinghood1845 factual1855 out there1955 1955 Mind 64 70 To be objective is to be part of the world of objects, the out-there. 1973 Current Anthropol. 14 585 This creation of two spheres, an ‘In-here’ and an ‘Out-there’..permits the qualitative distinction between oneself and the other that Maslow..describes as characteristic of the objective observer. 1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 68 They assume that..the dichotomy of the isolate individual versus the ‘out there’ only appears to exist. C. adj. 1. Philosophy. Designating or relating to the perceived rather than the perceiver; spec. having an objective existence, external to, and independent of any perceiver. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [adjective] > of or relating to entities or existence of entities > of types of existence supposital1656 external1667 objective1744 ejective1883 out there1965 1965 W. Matson Existence of God 199 The old-fashioned, ‘out-there’ reality. 1966 F. Kermode in D. Lodge 20th Cent. Lit. Crit. (1972) 664 Robbe-Grillet's out-there coffee-pot. 1979 Science 18 May 735/1 The study of scale is a procedure of discovery of non-subjective, real, out-there phenomena. 2. colloquial. Weird, offbeat, ‘way out’; not mainstream, avant-garde. ΚΠ 1976 New Yorker 29 Mar. 6/1 Bar and restaurant with mainly mainstream, occasionally out-there, and always well-amplified jazz. 1988 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Cyteen 186 Out-there theories had possessed people who should have known better. 1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 45/3 All the tracks on this record are very Derrick Carter and he has his own sound. It's really out there. 2000 Heat 13 Jan. 36/3 The characteristic slew of violent, out-there, taboo-tickling performances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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