inside
IPA: ɪnsˈaɪd
noun
- The interior or inner part.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- (colloquial, in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
- (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
- (slang) The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
- (of a person) Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
- (baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
adverb
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- (colloquial) In or to prison.
- Indoors.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
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Examples of "inside" in Sentences
- It had a label inside saying 'Stradivarius' and a crack down its back.
- Oh no, inside, instead, (_to Argyrippus, as she goes back inside_) Come along with me, darling.
- A freshly starched shirt, a tight collar, or the label inside an undershirt can cause significant discomfort or distraction.
- "He could have locked the door after him on the outside, not on the inside; but when we came in here, _it was locked on the inside_.
- Because his sentence exceeds 10 years, I don't think he will have the privilege of serving his term inside a minimum-security federal prison camp.
- As expected, they were wary of his term inside the Obama administration, and objected to his support for civil unions and embrace of evolution and climate change.
- Now the sweet roses are thrown down at the threshold, and still another ghost of the rose keeps questioning after me — Who can it be now, who carries his name inside her?
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