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interior

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. int['e]rieur. See Inter- , and cf. Intimate .] Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior , or superficial ; as, the interior apartments ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"part of a country distant from the coast," 1796, from interior (adj.); meaning "inside of a building or room" is from 1829.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Interior is an 1895 play in rhymed dialogue by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck . It was one of his few plays intended for marionettes .

Usage examples of interior.

For once, they did not find the need to transform the interior of a major Kundalan structure to suit their needs.

The picture he turned to was of a particularly succulent Divino Abbandono with green-on-gold surface and olive interior and the flavor of heaven.

In a debate at Cape Town upon the same day the Africander Minister of the Interior admitted that as many as 404 trucks had passed from the Government line over the frontier and had not been returned.

Alvar and Donald stood by one of the interior doors, toward what Alvar found himself thinking of as the rear of the room.

But as they began to make their way toward the trail, a Toyota four-by-four vehicle painted with the distinctive green of the Amn Al-Khass Interior Police-with five armed and uniformed men inside-raced past them and rounded the corner just behind them.

Chinese Classics in gold upon them, and the large establishment, show that the family belongs to the upper class of Anamites, and leave one quite unprepared for the reeking, festering heap of garbage below the house, the foul, fetid air, and swarming vermin of the interior, and the unwashedness of the inmates.

The interior of the town was crusted with antebellum mansions surrounded by live oaks that not so much towered over as embraced the property.

And reports were just coming in from overhead imagery that the transports had unloaded the ZIL-85 antiair defense systems vehicles and that they were already being dispersed about the island, hidden under the canopy of trees in the interior.

Only Tarzan of the Apes saw what else there was emerging from the dark interior of the hut.

Though his progress seemed tantalizingly slow to the ape-man whose idea of speed had been gained by such standards as the lesser apes attain, he made, as a matter of fact, almost as rapid progress as the drifting canoe that bore Rokoff on ahead of him, so that he came to the bay and within sight of the ocean just after darkness had fallen upon the same day that Jane Clayton and the Russian ended their flights from the interior.

Apparently, the interior is a gigantic astrometrics projection system, though I do not detect any such technology at play.

Each morning for the past nine years Torlyri had made the same journey, when the silent signal came through the eye of the hatch to tell her that the sun had entered the sky: out of the cocoon by the sky-side, up and up through the interior of the cliff along the winding maze of steep narrow corridors that led toward the crest, and at last to the flat area at the top, the Place of Going Out, where she would perform the rite that was her most important responsibility to the People.

Through conversations with Athapaskans of the interior and by reading their literature one can readily discover that fish and caribou were the primary faunal resources in the early economy of these people.

In the gigantic interior, steady, rapid work was done by yellow, blue, and black automata, their enameled surfaces gleaming.

With his impeccable liberal environmental credentials, Babcock was tapped by the new President to head up the Department of the Interior.