What's the difference between abroad and outland?

Abroad


Definition:

  • (adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
  • (adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.
  • (adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
  • (adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 70 and 80% of human Salmonella infections are contracted abroad, mainly outside the Nordic countries.
  • (2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (3) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (4) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (5) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (6) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
  • (7) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (8) Salinger stayed abroad for five months, mainly in Vienna.
  • (9) Last year more than 4,000 doctors took the first steps towards working abroad.
  • (10) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (11) The Bank cited slower economic growth at home and abroad, especially in the UK's main export markets, as well as problems in the eurozone, and strains on the banking system.
  • (12) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
  • (13) We might have a patient we can’t do anything for and we have to wait for them to die, knowing if they were abroad they could be saved.
  • (14) And there are many others who cannot leave teaching, and so will take their talent abroad, where they are valued much more highly.
  • (15) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
  • (16) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
  • (17) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
  • (18) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
  • (19) Four of the index cases had recently travelled abroad.
  • (20) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.

Outland


Definition:

  • (a.) Foreign; outlandish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, she says, being an outlander is in her generation’s DNA – and is one of the many things that has formed the basis of her 40-year friendship with Morrissey .
  • (2) Which brings me to the eight-seater Mitsubishi Outlander.
  • (3) Defensive about One of Ours, Cather nonetheless wrote much of her fiction in a male persona--A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, "Tom Outland's Story," Death Comes to the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and One of Ours, as well as numerous short stories.
  • (4) Some of Lessing's energy may have come from her outland origins: when the wheel spins, it's on the edges that the sparks fly.
  • (5) In television, Lady Gaga received a nomination for her role in American Horror Story: Hotel, while Empire, Game of Thrones , Narcos, Outlander and Mr Robot also did well.
  • (6) Gone, too, is the sense that fantasy is a dirty word – Da Vinci's Demons, Black Sails and Outlander are all trying to capture a similar mix of epic sweep and dark deeds.
  • (7) Moon, based on an original story by Jones, is the result of many hours spent reading the mind-bending works of Philip K Dick and watching contemplative extraterrestrial classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Outland The film is set in a not-so-distant future - the moon can be manned on a permanent basis and Sam Bell is the caretaker of a lonely mining station on its dark side.
  • (8) The three new models dominating sales were Renault’s Zoe , costing from £14,000 after a £5,000 UK government subsidy; Mitsubishi’s Outlander costing £28,250 after subsidy, and Volvo’s V60 plug-in , priced from £44,275 after subsidy.
  • (9) Photograph: Alamy “Will we start the tour at the mini dark hedges which lead to a stone circle?” he asks, as my eyes widen, realising that this is like real-life Game of Thrones (which features the dark hedges in Ballymoney) and Outlander (a stone circle) all in one.

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