Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated or positioned outside the hull of a vessel.
- adjective Being in a position that is away from the center line of the hull of a ship.
- adjective Situated or positioned toward or nearer the end of a wing of an aircraft.
- noun An outboard motor.
- noun A boat with an outboard motor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, in a direction laterally away from the center of a ship: the opposite of
inboard : as, to move an object outboard. - Nautical, outward: noting anything that is without or on or toward the outside of a ship: as, the outboard works; the outboard end of a propeller-shaft. See
inboard . - In mech., situated on the outer side or the side farther from the main center. Thus, the outboard bearing of a flywheel on an engine is the bearing which is farther from the crank than the fly-wheel itself, the inboard bearing being between the fly-wheel and the crank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Naut.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to
inboard
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Situated outside thehull of avessel . - adjective
Positioned away from thecentre line of aship oraircraft . - noun An
outboard motor . - noun A vessel fitted with an outboard motor.
- noun A
studio having outboard gear (compressor ,equalizer , etc.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft
- noun internal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat
- noun a motorboat with an outboard motor
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Examples
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Motor close to the deep edge of weeds — leafy cabbage is their preferred territory — then cast or simply let your spinner and minnow out about 80 feet and troll at idle speed, about 2 mph, with your main outboard.
Three Trolling Tactics for Walleye, Pike, and Lake Trout (and How to Rig Them) 2005
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It looked pretty dodgy - the outboard was a little worse for wear the skipper did have trouble keeping it running at low speed.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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I like the different advantages to using a blog as a way to communicate my thoughts as a kind of outboard brain.
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My first ever piece of "outboard" hehe was an SPX50D - the REX50 is simply the rackmount SPX50D in tabletop guise.
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If you looked at the sequence of events, you would see that our first indication was left inboard out, left outboard which is the trailing edge of the wing.
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Alongside sensible safety related proposals that will see the use of 'outboard' mirrors - those mounted on side pod air deflectors as used by the likes of
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Alongside sensible safety related proposals that will see the use of 'outboard' mirrors - those mounted on side pod air deflectors as used by the likes of
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Rather than being placed in the traditional location, 'outboard' mirrors are fixed to the sidepods of the cars in what is clearly an attempt to find further downforce.
A1 GP news editor@pitpass.com 2010
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Many drivers complained about visibility during the Australian Grand Prix weekend - particularly the cars with the 'outboard' mirrors which suffered major vibrations.
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German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, musical instruments, and fishing equipment such as outboard motors and fishing nets.
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