Interior
[ɪn'tɪɜːrɪə] or [ɪn'tɪrɪɚ]
Definition
(adj.) of or coming from the middle of a region or country; 'upcountry districts' .
(adj.) inside and toward a center; 'interior regions of the earth' .
(adj.) situated within or suitable for inside a building; 'an interior scene'; 'interior decoration'; 'an interior bathroom without windows' .
Edited by Bessie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
(a.) Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.
(n.) That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
(n.) The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
Typed by Dido
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Internal, inner, inward, not outward.[2]. Inland, remote from the shore or the frontier.
n. Inside, inner part, interior part.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inside, {[innei]?}, toward, internal, inland
ANT:Exterior, outside
Typed by Amalia
Definition
adj. inner: remote from the frontier or coast: inland.—n. the inside of anything: the inland part of a country.—n. Interior′ity.—adv. Intē′riorly.
Edited by Fergus
Examples
- From the interior a low soft breathing came to his ear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The movements of the enemy may justify, or even make it your imperative duty, to cut loose from your base, and strike for the interior to aid Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was no sound, and he glided into the semi-darkness of the interior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This interior cylinder readily revolves on an axis, _g_, _g_, shown in the section of the instrument as seen edgewise. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- You will get of these as many as you can house and protect to such point in the interior as you may be able to occupy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The doors were at the ends, a row of seats ran along each side of the interior, and a long deal table extended down the centre. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Besides those which are of common observation it is used for lighting the interior of mines, caves, and the dark apartments of ships, and does not foul the air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The result of moisture in the interior of a magnet is to weaken the effectiveness of the installation, leading eventually to short circuits and burn-outs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When they reached the front it was dark, and the shutters were closed, so that nothing of the interior could be seen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Whilst, for instance, the spectator is looking at the interior of a church, he sees the objects gradually assuming different appearances. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Having given up the interior of my head to idleness, it is as well that the exterior should work in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The lamps also were still useable, and thus the interior of the cabin appeared as bright as day to the astonished Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In charging the apparatus, the interior, A, is nearly filled with water, or other liquid, through the opening, _f_, which is then closed by cork, which is kept in its place by a screw nut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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