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Interior   /ɪntˈɪriər/   Listen
noun
Interior  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.


adjective
Interior  adj.  
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.
Synonyms: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.





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"Interior" Quotes from Famous Books



... go and see." He let rather than invited Pinney in, and in his absence, the representative of the Events made note of the interior, both of the hall which he had been allowed to enter, and of the library, where he found himself upon his own responsibility. The inside-man discovered him there with his back to the fire, when he returned with his card still in ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... Interior scene. Polly and Margaret, bachelor maids, being invited to attend a musicale, determine to exchange escorts. The result may not have been such as was intended, but certainly was one to have been expected. The dialogue throughout is brilliant and snappy, the action ...
— Three Hats - A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts • Alfred Debrun
... try-out to see that she works well, and then pack her up for shipment to the African coast by steamer. We'll go on the same ship, and when we arrive we'll put the Black Hawk together again, and set sail for the interior." ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle • Victor Appleton
... obdurate. She hadn't the change about her, she affirmed, with a jerk of her thumb towards the interior of the tent. Their takings to-day hadn't amounted to five shillings, as she was ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... so appalling, to a little emerald lake set like a jewel in the mountains. There he had built another fur-trading post, and named it after his friend, Archibald Norman M'Leod. This was the first fur-post known to have been erected in the interior of New Caledonia, now British Columbia. The new fort had been left in charge of James M'Dougall; and during the winter of 1806 M'Dougall had crossed the heavily drifted carrying-place and descended the Bad River as far as the south fork of the Fraser, which all traders ...
— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut


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