Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inside \In"side`\, a.
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Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.
Kissing with inside lip.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sports chiefly racing English) The lane or track nearest to the interior. 2 (context idiomatic English) Any advantage.
WordNet
n. a favorable position in a competition; "the boss's son had the inside track for that job"
the inner side of a curved racecourse
Wikipedia
The inside track, in racing sports, is the lane closest to the interior (and therefore the shortest). Metaphorically, it can refer to any form of advantage. It may also refer to:
- Inside Track, a British property educational company that started in 2001 and operated in the UK, and Hong Kong until 2008.
- InsideTrack, a website offering coaching services to colleges and universities students (US based).
- Insidetrak, a website offering job listing and employer reviews (AU based).
Usage examples of "inside track".
How it played the key role in deciphering messages to and from the delegates to the post-World War I disarmament talks, thus giving the American delegation the inside track.
Knowing him, he'd tucked heavy wooden dowels into the inside track so the windows would only slide back a scant six inches.
They've got Hong Kong by the shorts, Jesus, have they got an inside track!
He was young and energetic, and was on the inside track for the department manager's job when it would become vacant at the end of the summer.
In his own mind and everyone else's, Gus McCrae, the proud Texas Ranger, seemed to have the inside track.
What really grieved them, of course, was that he had the inside track on the Coronado team, then the fastest burgeoning and most glamorous race company in the business: and it would have been difficult to deny that the number of off-track articles he had written partly about the team but primarily about Harlow would have made up a pretty fair-size volume.
What really grieved them, of course, was that he had the inside track on the Coronado team, then the fastest burgeoning and most glamorous race company in the business : and it would have been difficult to deny that the number of off-track articles he had written partly about the team but primarily about Harlow would have made up a pretty fair-size volume.
There was only one topic of playground conversation, and Janet had the inside track.
Lazarus, it's just the inside track you need-if you weren't such a blithering idiot!
Whenever Qwilleran traversed this inside track, both cats would fall into line behind him, marching with tails at twelve o'clock.
The nearly circular course meant that only the inside track had a prayer of winning.
It also meant that when the gates opened and six four-horse chariots leaped for that inside track, there was an absolute certainty of a multiple collision.
Of course, radio and TV would be ahead of him with the broad outlines, but he knew he had an inside track.