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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inside
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inside pocket (=on the inside of a coat, jacket etc)
▪ Gregson pulled a photo from the inside pocket of his jacket.
an inside/a private joke (=that only a few people who are involved in something will understand)
▪ After I’d worked there a while, I started to understand some of the inside jokes.
inside knowledge (=knowledge that you have because you are part of a group)
▪ his inside knowledge gained from 20 years in the industry
inside scoop (=special information that other people do not have)
▪ the inside scoop on the markets
inside track
▪ the inside track to success in business
the inside story (=including facts that are known only to people involved)
▪ Though I’d seen the official report, I wanted the inside story.
the inside/inner edge
▪ He painted carefully around the inner edge of each door.
the inside/middle/outside lane
▪ Use the outside lane for overtaking only.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
▪ Come on, you'd best come inside.
▪ Suddenly, he came inside crying hard.
▪ He wouldn't come inside, said he didn't feel right there.
▪ Norm came inside then and ran into his room.
▪ He is at his best when he comes inside, makes a positive pass and then gets on his bike.
▪ It looked safe enough, so I told them to come inside when they got cold.
▪ I came inside, took a look around and then got beat over the head.
▪ When they came inside at dusk, they did not leave work behind.
get
▪ This wheel was worked by a man getting inside and walking forward rapidly.
▪ There was Philippa's escape if she could get inside in time.
▪ They had no difficulty getting inside.
▪ To see who got inside, I would have had to turn myself right round.
▪ When we got inside he dropped his clothes on the floor.
▪ It was a relief to get inside and shut the door.
▪ B gets inside for two baskets, then hits a three-pointer, then an outside jumper.
go
▪ Come now, you wouldn't want to go inside alone, would you?
▪ We went inside and walked up to the desk.
▪ She went inside, the door clicked behind her.
▪ Instead, he went inside and waited.
▪ It made them alive, somehow, and Elizabeth longed to go inside.
▪ When we got there, Sonya unlocked the door and we went inside.
▪ Finish your drink and let's go inside.
▪ Ferric parked in the shade and went inside.
look
▪ I shake it a bit and hear a rattling, so I look inside.
▪ He found Suzanne awake when he looked inside.
▪ Curiosity prompted him to look inside.
▪ They looked inside, peering under the seats and into the back.
▪ Everything a new mum needs - just look inside!
▪ He takes a few steps nearer and looks inside.
▪ It stood well away from the other buildings and this morning the great doors were partly open and she looked inside carefully.
▪ His large round eyes probed Miguel that first time, as if he could look inside with ease.
reach
▪ The door irised open and he reached inside, drawing out the tiny phial before the door closed up again.
▪ The lid fell backwards as he reached inside and grabbed a book.
▪ When she reached inside to retrieve the pin, there were two identical pins.
▪ He reached inside, pushing his hand through the layers of packing and into something dark and pungent.
stay
▪ Peter received some firm words and was made to stay inside during breaktime for the next day.
▪ Instead, they stayed inside and poked their arms through the bars for their food, just out of reach.
▪ Stay off the streets, Stay inside.
▪ I stay inside this morning, doing the chores that I hate.
▪ Dixie climbs out to join me, but Carmichael stays inside.
▪ She made me stay inside for the rest of the day.
▪ You had to stay inside and fight - or die.
▪ I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where staying inside to watch television was not an option.
step
▪ Step inside, however, and you enter a technological time warp.
▪ He pulled the doors back, stepped inside, swung the flashlight across the dirt floor.
▪ The lock clicked as they approached, and they stepped inside.
▪ Creed stepped inside and closed both doors again, feeling as if he'd just voluntarily shut himself up in a cell.
▪ We take a couple of steps inside.
▪ There was no one around in the hall to see me as I stepped inside.
▪ After a second she nudged the screen door open and stepped inside.
turn
▪ By the time I reached Hampstead, the mirrors of every car in North London were turned inside out.
▪ Fiend turned inside out is still a fiend.
▪ His father's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out.
▪ It seemed that space had been turned inside out: this was not a place for man.
▪ She had been dressed in a woollen shroud and her feet were covered with leather boots, the fur turned inside.
▪ The lie turned inside of her and screamed.
▪ It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination.
▪ The workings of opera are turned inside out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
know sth inside out
▪ As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media inside out.
▪ He stutters, but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out.
▪ I know this one Inside out!
▪ Of course, if everyone knew their partners inside out, there's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth.
▪ Start off by adding every email address you know, and click on all the options until you know it inside out.
▪ They know their stuff inside out, but most importantly they also look like they are having a whale of a time.
turn sth inside out
▪ Turn the pants inside out before you wash them.
▪ I've turned the house upside down looking for that book!
▪ Lukens' theories have turned the financial world upside down.
▪ Declaring the shirt offensive, she ordered Jeffrey to take it off or turn it inside out.
▪ Hayward Wiggins launched a kids' summer enrichment program nine years ago, he turned the rules inside out.
▪ I turned my collar inside out.
▪ In effect, it turns the nozzle inside out.
▪ Objectivism thus turns existentialism inside out.
▪ The ship leaped and juddered as if trying to turn to inside out.
▪ This brief scene, so unexpected and devastating, turns Blue inside out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Inside there are lots of handy hints to help you take better pictures.
▪ Free inside! A monthly horoscope guide!
▪ Gabby cringed a little inside when Peter showed up drunk.
▪ I'm getting cold. Let's go inside.
▪ I desperately needed some way to vent all the anger and frustration I felt inside.
▪ I wish I knew what he was feeling inside.
▪ Kate tried to make jokes but inside she was furious.
▪ The box has some letters inside.
▪ These kids seem so aggressive, but inside they're terrified.
▪ When we got to the window, we saw that there were already people inside.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cozy is a generous description of the inside of the sphere.
▪ She opened the bag and got out a powder compact that had a small round mirror on the inside of the lid.
▪ The neon lights outside were barely visible through the sheen of condensation coating the inside of the cafe window.
▪ The signatures were to appear on the inside of every Macintosh computer.
III.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
edge
▪ Run a blunt knife around the inside edge of the tin and turn out the cake on to a wire rack to cool.
information
▪ Some of these rules prohibit the misuse of inside information.
▪ When Milken trades junk bonds, he has inside information.
▪ Almost any conversation with a company would probably put the analysts in possession of inside information.
▪ Of course, not everyone gets caught, nor do the laws cover everyone with inside information.
▪ A number of the Take-over Panel rules prohibit trading on the basis of inside information.
▪ On the day the inside information was made public, the price of the share concerned jumped to reflect it.
▪ As there are no Premier games between now and 14 Jan, we all have the same inside information.
▪ In Britain, the balance of the equation favouring the exploitation of inside information is changing.
job
▪ No gallery can be burgled without hints of an inside job.
▪ In 1962, he landed an inside job on the Observer sports desk and moved to London.
knowledge
▪ Despite such inside knowledge, the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders.
▪ I looked forward to picking up useful bits of inside knowledge.
▪ If those with inside knowledge of the facts didn't speak up for Britain, who the hell would?
▪ Using inside knowledge gained from twenty years in the industry she shows how recent scandals could have been avoided.
▪ And, with inside knowledge, he gave details of it.
lane
▪ Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1.
▪ But this time I was prepared, hiding in the inside lane.
▪ I was given the inside lane and I was furious and protested.
▪ When they got out they saw a Vauxhall Astra, its front badly damaged, directly behind in the inside lane.
▪ A single-decker yellow-and-black bus was travelling fast in the inside lane, its headlights dipped and no traffic immediately in front of it.
▪ The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed.
▪ Myeloski was trapped in the inside lane.
▪ Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway.
leg
▪ Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward.
▪ Registration is easy, but again you have to provide them with every piece of information short of your inside leg measurement.
▪ Even when his hands pat their way up to my crotch it is less embarrassing than having a tailor measure my inside leg.
page
▪ The inside pages used classic 1970s magazine design.
▪ He flicks through the inside pages.
▪ Newspapers splashed feature stories across inside pages talking about the separation.
pocket
▪ Rains had had a bottle of vichy water in his inside pocket.
▪ Kirov stooped over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket.
▪ The photographs still bulged in his inside pocket.
▪ He reached into an inside pocket and took out a form which he placed on the table.
▪ Adam sat down on the one comfortable chair he possessed and pulled his father's envelope out of his inside pocket.
▪ Plummer put down his glass and reached into his inside pocket for the monogrammed cigarette case.
▪ Features epaulettes, an inside pocket, two side pockets and a pencil holder on the left sleeve.
▪ Romanov took out the little blue passport with a soft cover from his inside pocket and handed it over.
scoop
▪ He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story: the thirty-five-foot mountain he'd ridden on 5 January 1985.
story
▪ But I've got the inside story from my mate.
▪ Only those who had any idea of the inside story recognised the scale of Mrs Gould's contribution.
▪ Only he had the inside story.
surface
▪ These inside surfaces are the most densely populated region of the human body.
track
▪ Chief Inspector Kuhlmann's assistant - an inside track right into the centre of the Kriminalpolizei at Wiesbaden.
▪ The truth is, the Hurricanes might have the inside track on the national title.
▪ If you are not on the inside track, then decision are taken over which you have no influence.
▪ Too often he spoke as if he knew what was going on in the inside track, whether he did or not.
▪ I think they're targeting one or two City firms and getting the inside track by reading their mail.
wall
▪ Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together.
▪ The inside walls were dark blue and decorated with the same symbols but the customers were mainly old men.
▪ The inside walls were plastered and painted.
▪ Wash the inside walls of the refrigerator with a solution of 2 tablespoons baking soda to 1 quart water.
▪ Dover Breakwater offered flounder, dabs and small pout with the inside wall best.
▪ He put his hands on the inside wall of the coach to steady himself.
▪ Why have an air-vent on an inside wall?
▪ The inside walls are rigged with brackets of steel, like the brackets around the crematoria.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to inside information, many members of the security forces are concerned about this problem.
▪ The tulip's inside petals are canary yellow on ivory white.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A minute later, on an inside pass from Sandie, Jess sinks one.
▪ A single-decker yellow-and-black bus was travelling fast in the inside lane, its headlights dipped and no traffic immediately in front of it.
▪ Despite such inside knowledge, the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders.
▪ If those with inside knowledge of the facts didn't speak up for Britain, who the hell would?
▪ Kirov stooped over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket.
▪ Nelson, who scored five points during the run, closed the Gators' scoring spree with an inside basket.
▪ Once the men are seated in the living room off the inside patio, they try to lure the children into conversation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inside

Inside \In"side`\, n.

  1. The part within; interior or internal portion; content.

    Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
    --Shak.

  2. pl. The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.

    Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely.
    --Massinger.

  3. An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside. [Colloq. Eng.]

    So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides.
    --Anti-Jacobin.

    Patent insides or Patent outsides, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

Inside

Inside \In"side`\, prep. or adv. Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.

Inside

Inside \In"side`\, a.

  1. Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.

    Kissing with inside lip.
    --Shak.

  2. Adapted to the interior.

    Inside callipers (Mech.), callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc.

    Inside finish (Arch.), a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering.

    Inside track, the inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, contacts, etc., in competition.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inside

late 14c., ynneside "interior of the body," compound of in (adv.) + side (n.). The adjective is 1610s, from the noun. Inside job "robbery, espionage, etc., committed by or with the help of a resident or servant of a place" is attested by 1887, American English (also, late 19c., early 20c., "indoors work"). Inside track "advantage" is metaphoric because those lanes are shorter on a curved track. Inside of, in reference to time, is from 1839.

Wiktionary
inside

a. 1 Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation. 2 (context baseball English) A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate. 3 Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc. adv. 1 Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building. 2 (context colloquial English) In prison. n. The interior or inner or lesser part. prep. Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.

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WordNet
inside

  1. adv. within a building; "in winter we play inside" [syn: indoors] [ant: outside, outside]

  2. on the inside; "inside, the car is a mess" [syn: within] [ant: outside]

  3. with respect to private feelings; "inwardly, she was raging" [syn: inwardly] [ant: outwardly]

  4. in reality; "she is very kind at heart" [syn: at heart, at bottom, deep down, in spite of appearance]

inside

  1. n. the region that is inside of something [syn: interior] [ant: outside]

  2. the inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: interior] [ant: outside]

inside

  1. adj. relating to or being within or near the inner side or limit; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter" [ant: outside]

  2. being or applying to the inside of a building; "an inside wall" [syn: inside(a)]

  3. located, suited for, or taking place within a building; "indoor activities for a rainy day"; "an indoor pool" [syn: indoor(a)] [ant: outdoor(a)]

  4. confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" [syn: inner, privileged]

  5. away from the outer edge; "an inner lane"; "the inside lane"

  6. within some bounds; especially of an organization; "an inside job"

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Wikipedia
Inside

Inside may refer to:

  • Indoors
  • Insider, a member of any group of people of limited number and generally restricted access
Inside (Eloy album)

Inside is the second album by German progressive rock band Eloy. It was released in 1973.

Inside (Orphanage album)

Inside is Orphanage's fourth album, released in August 2000 by Nuclear Blast records. The CD features 11 tracks that have been recorded at several locations during the timespan of 1997 up to 2000.

Inside (Ronnie Milsap album)

Inside is the fourteenth studio album by Ronnie Milsap, released in 1982 by RCA Records. It contains the hits "Any Day Now", "Inside", and "He Got You".

Inside (Matthew Sweet album)

Inside is the debut album by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. It was released on Sony Records in 1986.

Inside (Monica song)

"Inside" is an R&B song from Monica's second studio album, The Boy Is Mine. It was released outside US as the album's fourth single in early 1999. Chart positions are currently unknown. The video, directed by Earle Sebastian (known for his work for Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, among others) only received airplay in Europe as promotion for the album.

Inside (Ronnie Milsap song)

"Inside" is a song written by Mike Reid, and recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It was released in November 1982 as the third single and title track from the album Inside. The song extended his early 1980s success as both a country and crossover artist when it reached its peak popularity in early 1983.

Inside (Presence album)

Inside is the debut studio album released by British rock band Presence; it was released through Smash Records, a subsidiary of Island Records. Although Inside was well received by critics, it was a commercial failure, and the band dissolved shortly afterwards. Nevertheless, this band does spark interest among some Cure fans because of the involvement of Lol Tolhurst. According to an interview with Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey was also involved with this band as he co-wrote two of the tracks off of this album as well as the b-side "Amazed".

In December 2011, this album was made available in MP3 format through Amazon and iTunes.

Inside (2007 film)

Inside is a 2007 French home invasion horror film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, starring Alysson Paradis and Béatrice Dalle. It was written by co-director Bustillo, and is the first feature film from either director. It concerns the attack and home-invasion of a young pregnant woman by a mysterious stranger who seeks to take her unborn baby. The film received generally positive reviews from mainstream critics upon its release and was particularly well received among horror film critics, noting it for being a genuinely scary and brutally violent example of the new wave of French horror.

Inside (David Reilly EP)

Inside is the first solo EP released by David Reilly of God Lives Underwater in 2004. "Blaming the Truth" & "Far From Home" are demo versions. Originally appeared on the 'Fluzee 7 EP'. This album was mixed by Jeff Turzo the other half of God Lives Underwater.

Inside (Stiltskin song)

"Inside" is a song by rock band Stiltskin, the first single from their first studio album, The Mind's Eye. It was written by Peter Lawlor for the British Levi's advert "Creek" and spent one week at number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1994. The song was used as the music for Sky Sports' coverage of the Scottish Premier League between 1998 and 2002. All instruments on this recording were played by Peter Lawlor.

Inside (White Heart album)

Inside is the tenth album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the band's only album with John Thorn on bass guitar. The band stylized its name as Whiteheart for this album.

Inside (David Sanborn album)

Inside is a studio album by David Sanborn, released through Elektra Records in 1999. In 2000, the album won Sanborn the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.

Inside (2013 film)

Inside is a 2013 American horror film written and directed by Daryn Tufts, and starring Luke Goss, Paul Rae, Isaac Singleton, and Derek Phillips.

Inside (2011 film)

Inside (2011) is a social film thriller brought to viewers through a partnership by Intel and Toshiba.

Directed and written by D. J. Caruso and starring Emmy Rossum, the experience is broken up into several segments across multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Viewers are challenged to help Rossum’s character, Christina, safely make it out of her predicament. The film bears some similarities to the (non-social) 2008 film Untraceable in that it involves kidnapping and an Internet audience as part of the plot.

The first in a series of episodes was released on the website on 25 July 2011 for those participating in the "real-time experience". The whole film became available for online viewing on 6 September 2011 in their website, however both the website and YouTube channel no longer exist.

Inside (Paul Horn album)

Inside is a 1968 album by jazz flautist Paul Horn, considered one of the earliest new-age music and world fusion records. The album was recorded inside the Taj Mahal on 25 April 1968, while Horn was with the Beatles in India, and released on the Epic Records label. It has sold over one million copies. The album has been reissued under the name Inside the Taj Mahal.

Inside (1996 film)

Inside is a 1996 cable television film directed by Arthur Penn (which was his true final film, excluding Penn and Teller Get Killed) based on a script by Bima Stagg. The film was shot in Johannesburg, South Africa and premiered in the USA on Showtime on 25 August 1996. The film was then released theatrically in several markets and played at several film festivals around the world including Cannes, Toronto, San Francisco and Munich. The film was nominated for an Emmy, and a Cable Ace Award.

Inside (Bill Morrissey album)

Inside is the fourth album by New England singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey, released in 1992 on Philo Records.

Inside (video game)

Inside (stylized as INSIDE) is a puzzle-platformer adventure video game developed and published by independent studio Playdead. In the game the player controls a young boy in a monochromatic landscape, solving environmental puzzles while avoiding death in a 3D sidescrolling fashion, thematically and visually similar to Limbo.

Playdead started working on Inside shortly after the release of Limbo. Initially, the company used a custom game engine for Limbo, but used Unity to simplify development, with partial funding from the Danish Film Institute. It premiered at Microsoft's E3 2014 conference, and was originally to be developed for platforms, such as OS X and Linux. Afterwards, it was delayed from release in 2015 to mid-2016 and was to be released for the Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. A demo was released at Microsoft's PAX Prime event in August 2015, and was revealed at the Xbox E3 2016 conference.

Inside was released for Xbox One on 29 June 2016, Microsoft Windows on 7 July, and PlayStation 4 slated for 23 August. The game received near-unanimous acclaim upon release, with some critics and reviewers calling it a worthy successor to Limbo.

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Usage examples of "inside".

Jamie had forced me to take almost all the moneynot a great deal, but there was a small weight of coin at the bottom of each of the pockets tied around my waist, and a couple of proclamation notes tucked inside my stays.

Inside, she picked up a briefcase, set it on the bureau top, and took out a flat box of the kind used for carrying storage chips.

Inside was a big torch made of dry sticks and rags, a ball of string, and a large version of the hemispheric candle-holder the miners used, fixed to a flat wooden base so that it could not fall over.

She staggered a little, but held on to the hilt, twisting the blade inside him, bringing a grimace to his face but no sound to his lips.

Her dress for the Garden-party, chosen to combine suitably with full academicals, lay, neatly folded, inside her suitcase.

I could find to stick the gate actuator was inside a loo reserved for women and girls.

When Vergennes pressed for inside information on the course of the negotiations, Adams told him nothing.

Abigail, who in her letters to her sister Mary was to provide an inside look at the Adams presidency like no other, much as she had in portraying their life in France and London years before, writing always to the moment and with untrammeled candor.

In February, to make the tension still worse, Adams had to inform Congress that a French privateer had actually attacked a British merchant ship inside Charleston Harbor.

The Afrikaner had stopped inside the door and was gazing at the equipment racked on the walls.

Now, as the sitcom inside continued, agents in the lot outside were getting angry.

Inside the bomber Aircraftman Grigson, halfway through his cigarette, knew immediately what had happened.

The reserve chute is worn in front, and the whipping airstream sometimes gets inside and rips the pack open, dragging the chute and the jumper out the door prematurely.

The gunners were down inside the hull, out of the cold airstream, trying to keep warm.

He stepped inside and glanced down the aisleway, verifying that Phil Knight was already aboard.