What's the difference between outing and picnic?

Outing


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
  • (n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The therapist consulted with staff before and after outings, thus providing integration with the over-all treatment plan.
  • (2) "That's money you could use for a family outing, a treat for the kids, or a meal in town."
  • (3) If she learns anything from this disastrous outing, I hope itʼs that if sheʼs going to allow the music industry to play her as a sex object, she needs to at least own it.
  • (4) He said that the BNP wanted a second outing on Question Time to be "re-run in the correct format".
  • (5) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
  • (6) The Lakers snapped a six-game skid in their final outing, but their demanding fans could forget about the awful season for one night.
  • (7) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
  • (8) Carville’s aide-memoire gets an outing whenever politicians are losing an argument about something that isn’t the economy and want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
  • (9) The Frost Programme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frost's first outing as a more serious interviewer came with The Frost Programme, for which he returned to Associated Rediffusion, the then-ITV franchise for London for whom he had worked as a trainee after leaving Cambridge.
  • (10) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
  • (11) Enhanced caller identification pages could also show details of the person on the other end of the line including their location, and prompts such as the names of their children, their last holiday or a recent cinema outing.
  • (12) However, clever Miss Bennet was not an automatic crowd-pleaser on her first outings.
  • (13) The only notable change comes in adding multiplayer, a first for the 3D outings.
  • (14) There’s quite a hidden LGBT element in terms of revenge porn,” adds Noone, who says attackers will sometimes threaten to post pictures “outing” someone to family and friends unless blackmail demands are met.
  • (15) I wish it would rain down Great Continental Railway Journeys followed the first outing for BBC2's new natural history epic, Africa 2013: Countdown to the Rains, presented by Kate Humble and Simon King in Zambia.
  • (16) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
  • (17) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
  • (18) It’s hot up there,” said Arsène Wenger as he surveyed the scene at the top end of the Premier League, with everyone winning their midweek outings.
  • (19) 7 members of a family of 14 developed acute viral hepatitis approximately one month after a family outing.
  • (20) Here are seven takeaways from our first proper look at Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as the suave British spy.

Picnic


Definition:

  • (v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
  • (v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
  • (2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (3) Perhaps the powers from on high will decide that picnics in Kensington Gardens can only comprise quinoa salads and raw broccoli.
  • (4) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
  • (5) The beaches were empty until we happened across a popular picnic spot: a fresh water source made it the greenest place for miles around, and locals took their cows there to drink.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rolling Acres' picnic place.
  • (7) The section between Odeceixe and São Teotonio, which you can access at Odeceixe bridge, is really beautiful and diverse, running along the Seixe river, then through eucalyptus forest – take a picnic.
  • (8) We need a space like Juhu beach, that’s open to the public, where kids can go play or have a picnic.” For more than a decade, Mumbai agencies have been petitioning federal port authorities to open some part of the 730-hectare docklands for public use, as other port cities around the world have done.
  • (9) You'll find farm animals, a tearoom and a picnic spot.
  • (10) Virgin1 is expected to disappear and BSkyB may well take advantage of Ofcom's backing for Picnic, its proposed digital terrestrial subscription service, in the regulator's pay-TV ruling.
  • (11) By the time I arrived in Nice, the picnic on the beach had been called off, but I was soon absorbed into the extended family of this pair of single mothers and avid social networkers.
  • (12) The village has marked the spot, on a field on the edge of the village, with an EU flag and some picnic tables.
  • (13) The title of the piece, I’d love to Have You Over For Dinner ... but the House Isn’t Finished, would not seem so out of place today, nor would the temporary decor – a picnic table in the kitchen, a couch borrowed from a friend – chronicled within.
  • (14) But it hasn't got any wittier than this people-free image of a deconstructed picnic, with only the shooting stick and binoculars to tell you that we're off to the races.
  • (15) They are firmer and less flaky than Cornish pasties and don't break, making them the perfect picnic food.
  • (16) You keep putting the same people in the same job and expect a different outcome.” I met Conway at a Republican picnic in Ohio’s Mahoning County, known as ground zero for these crossover voters.
  • (17) You can make it complicated – but I've had some great times in a graveyard on a picnic blanket, and, indeed, up against bins around the back of a club – and I'd like something of that very British, make-do spirit to be represented somewhere in British sex fiction in 2014.
  • (18) Television and radio spots, with donor recognition pins, certificates, receptions, and picnics are utilized.
  • (19) But half a mile up the road the clergy were in the middle of a big gay picnic and had no problem with anyone using their building.
  • (20) Sky is understood to have considered launching an internet version of Picnic, an IPTV service.