About The Word Interior
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What's The Definition Of Interior?
[n] the federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
[n] the inner or enclosed surface of something [n] the region that is inside of something [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] located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [adj] situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" Synonyms | Synonyms for Interior: Department of the Interior | indoor | inland | inner | inside | inside(a) | Interior Department | internal | inward | midland | upcountry Related Terms | Find terms related to Interior: airscape | amidships | anonymous | average | belly | bosom | center | central | cityscape | civil | closet | cloudscape | core | deep | deepest recesses | depths | diameter | diaphragm | diorama | domestic | equator | equatorial | equidistant | exterior | farmscape | gut | halfway | heart | heart of hearts | heartland | hidden | hinterland | home | incognito | individual | indoor | inland | inlands | inmost | innards | inner | inner landscape | inner life | inner man | inner nature | inner recess | inner self | innermost | inshore | inside | interior man | intermediary | intermediate | intern | internal | internals | intestine | intimate | intrados | intrinsic | inward | inwards | isolated | kernel | landscape | local | mean | medial | median | mediocre | mediterranean | medium | mesial | mezzo | mid | middle | middlemost | middling | midland | midlands | midmost | midriff | midships | midst | midway | national | nuclear | nucleus | pastoral | penetralia | personal | private | privy | recesses | retired | riverscape | scape | scene | seapiece | seascape | secluded | secret | secret place | secret places | sequestered | skyscape | snowscape | soul | thick | thick of things | townscape | up-country | upland | uplands | veiled | view | viscera | visceral | vital center | vitals | waist | waistline | waterscape | withdrawn | within | zone See Also | belly | executive department | indoor(a) | inside | midland | midst | part | penetralia | region | surface | thick Interior In Webster's Dictionary \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf.
F. int['e]rieur. See {Inter-}, and cf. {Intimate}.]
1. 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.
2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as,
the interior parts of a region or country.
{Interior angle} (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}.
{Interior planets} (Astron.), those planets within the orbit
of the earth.
{Interior screw}, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a
nut; a female screw.
Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
\In*te"ri*or\, n. 1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside. 2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. {Department of the Interior}, 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. {Secretary of the Interior}, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior. |
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