inside outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌɪnsaɪdˈaʊt/

副詞

inside out (not comparable)

1. (not comparable) With the inside surface turned to be on the outside.

   Antonym: right side out

   I now realise that I have my shirt on inside out.

2. (of knowledge) Thoroughly; extremely well.

   I know IBM Assembler Language inside out.

3. (of characteristic existence) Completely; through and through; to the core.

   We're hometown hockey fans inside out.

4. (cricket) Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field.

   He hit the ball inside out in an ugly manner, but scored a four.

使用する際の注意点

(syntax) Typically used on a postpositive basis.

派生語

• know inside out

形容詞

inside out (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of inside-out.

アナグラム

• outside in

形容詞

inside-out (not comparable)

1. (rare, obsolete) Synonym of sidelong.
   • 1850 May, The New Monthly Magazine & Humourist, page 111:

     ...with a nudge of the elbow, and an inside-out squint of his eyes...

2. With the inner and outer surfaces reversed.

   Antonym: right-side-out

   • 1893 May, Temple Bar, page 31:

     These curious gloves... have two thumbs, so that by an inside-out process they can get another pair of gloves when the palm becomes worn out.

   • 1932 April, Michigan Technic, page 6:

     This force is all that prevents the blades from pointing straight up like an inside-out umbrella.

   • 2009 September 7, The New Yorker, page 25:

     Brian Rosenworcel... was wearing gray Crocs and an inside-out T-shirt.

3. (tennis) Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.
   • 1977 March 15, The Washington Post, page D5:

     ...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point...

   • 2014 July 2, The Daily Telegraph, Sports Sect., p. 6:

     Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.

同意語

• (with reversed inner & outer surfaces): extroverted (medical)

派生語

副詞

inside-out (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of inside out.

参照

• “inside-out, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

アナグラム

• outside in