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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inland
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Inland Revenue
inland waterways
inland waterways
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
further
▪ South Frodingham is two or three miles further inland.
▪ But Merlins are not infrequently recorded along the Downs and are seen very occasionally further inland.
▪ A few also occur on the Downs and further inland, but usually only in small parties.
▪ The low arches and shallow water stopped sailing ships going further inland.
■ NOUN
area
▪ The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels.
▪ The Ouse Washes is the largest inland area of regularly flooded marshland in Great Britain.
▪ In inland areas salt is derived from a number of sources.
▪ But the extension of the tax - for that is what it had become - to inland areas aroused resentment and opposition.
revenue
▪ If you elect to become self-employed you will have to let your local inland revenue office know.
sea
▪ From the southern edge of this inland sea, it is only a short haul over the mountains to Los Angeles.
▪ Busy traffic very soon humanized these inland seas, linking their coasts, their civilizations and their history.
▪ The inland sea at her door might be seven miles across, but it was enclosed on three sides by islands.
▪ Life-size dinosaur models tower above the Prehistoric Park where authentic geological formations include mountain uplift, volcano, swampland and inland sea.
waters
▪ On both spring and autumn passage the species frequently appears at inland waters as well as right along the coast.
▪ On passage birds are seen on inland waters, particularly the reservoirs, as often as on the coast.
▪ Meanwhile his passion for sailing was developing by cruising and sailing on the inland waters of the Thames.
▪ Crested wavelets form on inland waters.
▪ The ratio is 8-1 for canoeing in inland waters and 6-1 for canoeing on rivers.
waterway
▪ These multiplied especially along the routes and inland waterways of the region.
▪ The project is based on the theme of the inland waterway and its significance historically, socially, environmentally and culturally.
▪ Warehousing &038; Trade A variety of cargoes, as diverse as Britain's industries, has been carried on the inland waterways.
▪ Sea, inland waterway, and road transport came under the control of the Commissariat as well as the railways.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Inland Revenue
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All are of single birds - 10 seen at the coast and eight in inland localities.
▪ Life-size dinosaur models tower above the Prehistoric Park where authentic geological formations include mountain uplift, volcano, swampland and inland sea.
▪ Many species live, and presumably lived in the past, in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates.
▪ Shores of inland lakes, lagoons, rivers and streams, in steppes, deserts and mountains.
▪ The boom has created opportunities, and money has trickled down from the coastal boom towns to poorer inland regions.
▪ This brought in new allies, particularly from inland Karia, and new revenue.
▪ This gets us to Santa Catarina, a small inland hamlet.
II.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chance of rain inland, fog on the islands.
▪ Farther inland, the tropical pulses create stronger weather fronts, deeper lows and sharp changes in temperature across the continent.
▪ From a dry stone wall inland, redstarts darted, like orange flames, tail feathers fanned and quivering.
▪ How far does the iron ore have to be taken inland to the nearest blast furnaces?
▪ Jenner marks the last escape inland to Highway 101.
▪ Richeaume is in the hills inland from Marseilles and is farmed organically.
▪ The herring fleet was moored well inland, and the water was oil-tarnished.
▪ The lot is inland of Piers 48 and 50.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inland

Inland \In"land\, a.

  1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. ``This wide inland sea.''
    --Spenser.

    From inland regions to the distant main.
    --Cowper.

  2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.

  3. Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.

Inland

Inland \In"land\, n. The interior part of a country.
--Shak.

Inland

Inland \In"land\, adv. Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast.
--Cook.

The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east.
--S. Turner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inland

Old English inn lond "land around the mansion of an estate," from in + land (n.). Meaning "interior parts of a country, remote from the sea or borders" is from 1570s. As an adjective, "of or pertaining to interior parts of a country," from 1550s.

Wiktionary
inland

a. 1 within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. 2 Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc. 3 Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange. adv. Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. ''Cook''. n. The interior part of a country. ''Shakespeare''

WordNet
inland

adj. situated away from an area's coast or border [ant: coastal]

inland

adv. towards or into the interior of a region; "the town is five miles inland"

Wikipedia
Inland

Inland may refer to:

  • Inland Fräkne Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden
  • Inland Northern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden
  • Inland Southern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden
  • Inland Torpe Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden
  • Inland Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA
  • Inland Township, Michigan, USA
  • Inland, Nebraska, USA
  • Inland Township, Clay County, Nebraska, USA
  • Inland (Jars of Clay album)
  • Inland (Mark Templeton album)
  • Inland sea (geology), a shallow sea that covers central areas of continents during periods of high sea level
  • Inland Northwest (United States), also known as the Inland Empire, a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
  • Inland navigation, transport with ships via inland waterway
  • Inland (novel), a novel by Gerald Murnane
Inland (Mark Templeton album)

Inland follows up Standing on a Hummingbird as Mark Templeton's second full-length solo album. Inland was released May 11, 2009, by the electronic music label Anticipate Recordings hailing out of New York City.

Inland (Jars of Clay album)

Inland is the eleventh full-length studio album by rock band Jars of Clay, which was released on August 27, 2013 by Gray Matters label. The album was produced by Tucker Martine at Flora Recording & Playback in Portland, Oregon. The album has seen significant charting successes, and has garnered critical acclamation.

Inland (novel)

Inland is a novel by Gerald Murnane, first published in 1988. It has been described. as one of Murnane's greatest and most ambitious works, although some reviewers have criticised its use of repetition, lack of clear structure and reliance on writing as a subject matter. Reviewing the book in 2012, J. M. Coetzee called it "the most ambitious, sustained, and powerful piece of writing Murnane has to date brought off".

Set in the plains of Hungary, the United States and Australia, Inland explores themes of memory, landscape, longing, love and writing.

Usage examples of "inland".

He was working gypsy construction jobs by day and playing at night with the Corvairs, never anyplace near the surf but inland, for this sun-beat farm country had always welcomed them, beer riders of the valleys having found strange affinities with surfers and their music.

Half an hour later, when they reached the tidal limits of the river, some ten miles inland, Aragon slowed down so that they could watch the water more closely.

The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.

Besides, after building a few bombs in the back lot, I loved the idea of working with real explosives, and that did have civilian applications with all the inland construction going on as we developed the continent.

With Bas and the archer, Cormac moved inland, well above the level of the beach, the valley of the castle, and his own men.

Farther inland, its sides were low, begrown to the very edge of the water.

Located at the tip of a peninsula extending into one of the great inland silt basins, Bodach was a city of the undead.

French coast in clear daylight, penetrated thirty miles inland, and bombed a railway marshalling yard near Rouen.

United States submarines Thread-fin and Hackleback, on the evening of 6 April, reported a sizeable force debouching from Bungo Suido, the southern entrance to the Inland Sea.

That morning, the doctor wind swept a swarm of barnacle flies inland, and when the bureaucrat awoke, the houseboat was encrusted with their shells.

They have been for several generations the middle men between the white traders on the coast and the inland tribes of the Cross river and Calabar district.

This was the capital of the Chumar and lay several days inland above the great scarp.

The northern shore was cliffy, and inland from the escarpments the forested hillside was broken by deep gullies.

Capped with brown crust, falling bluff inland, and sloping towards the main, where the usual stone-heaps act as sea-marks, this bank of yellowish-white coralline, measuring 310 metres by half that width, may be the remains of the bed in which the torrents carved out the port.

The shelve of the beach saved the cave from being flooded and the beetling of the cliff kept it dry and within a couple of feet of the entrance but it could not keep out the rain smell, the raw smell of Kerguelen carried from inland, the smell of bog patches and new washed dolerite and bitter vegetation, keen, like the smell of the Stone Age.