Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or located on the inside; inner.
- adjective Of or relating to one's mental or spiritual being.
- adjective Situated away from a coast or border; inland.
- noun The internal portion or area.
- noun One's mental or spiritual life.
- noun The inland part of a political or geographic entity.
- noun The internal affairs of a country or nation.
- noun A representation of the inside of a building or room, as in a photograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being within; inside of anything that limits, incloses, or conceals; internal; further toward a center: opposed to exterior or superficial: as, the interior parts of a house or of the earth.
- Inland; remote from the limits, frontier, or shore: as, the interior parts of a country; an interior town.
- Of or pertaining to that which is within; inside: as, an interior view.
- Pertaining to the immediate contents of consciousness; relating to that which one can perceive within one's self; inward; inner; inmost; mental.
- In entomology, inner; lying next to the body or the median line.
- noun The internal part; the inside.
- noun In art: An inside part of a building, considered as a whole from the point of view of artistic design or general effect, convenience, etc.
- noun A picture of such an inclosed space, or of any subject considered as within such an inclosure, or under the conditions of lighting, etc., obtaining therein.
- noun That part of a country or state which is at a considerable distance from its frontiers.
- noun The internal or domestic affairs of a country as distinguished from its external or foreign affairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
- noun The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
- noun that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
- noun the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
- adjective Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to
exterior , orsuperficial - adjective Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
- adjective (Geom.) an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also
internal angle . - adjective (Astron.) those planets within the orbit of the earth.
- adjective a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having to do with the inner part of something
- adjective having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts
- noun The inside of a
building ,container ,cavern , or other enclosed structure. - noun The inside regions of a
country , distanced from theborders orcoasts . - noun mathematics, topology The set of all
interior points of aset .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inside the country
- noun the inner or enclosed surface of something
- adjective located inward
- noun the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
- adjective situated within or suitable for inside a building
- adjective of or coming from the middle of a region or country
- noun the region that is inside of something
- adjective inside and toward a center
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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DIRK KEMPTHORNE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: I'm Dirk Kempthorne, secretary of the interior.
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Ltd., to pay for a total of $18.2 million for the already completed interior and exterior design and molding of the JNZ SHUTTLE Van; the completed engineering design, type approval certification and catalogue license of the gasoline transmission of the JNZ SHUTTLE Van; and the ALIAS interior and exterior design and molding, which is underway.
unknown title 2011
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For many travelers, driving down the Baja Peninsula, taking a passsenger/vehicle ferry across to Mexico's mainland and then exploring the interior is a pleasant way of experiencing a wide variety of topography.
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For many travelers, driving down the Baja Peninsula, taking a passsenger/vehicle ferry across to Mexico's mainland and then exploring the interior is a pleasant way of experiencing a wide variety of topography.
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Sometimes the best way to freshen up your interior is also the easiest way.
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And although it looks old and worn, the interior is all about contemporary shapes and elegant furnishings, for more warmth (maybe during winter?).
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Personally from what I have seen thus far the interior is a far greater departure (in the wrong direction) than the ship itself.
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So, if Volaris to Tijuana from where ever you are in the interior is an option, I think I'd be inclined to take it.
California Crossings 2008
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Increased ice and snow on the interior is the other side of the issue that Gore is not telling, I never claimd it constituted both sides of the issue by itself.
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It's not the article I remember reading, but you've put my mind at ease regarding the bottle holder; you are correct, the interior is a white glaze.
Louises commented on the word interior
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March 25, 2012