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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interior
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an interior designer (=for the colours, materials etc inside people's homes)
▪ The apartment's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer.
interior decorator
interior designer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
design
▪ Herbert Ypma is talking about the merits of minimalism in interior design.
designer
▪ I recalled that a famous interior designer had been consulted on the layout.
▪ For interior designers, sofas have always been a prime consideration.
▪ She accepted John Saladino as an established and known interior designer.
▪ Dame Sybil Connolly, internationally renowned interior designer, entertains at her private home in Dublin.
minister
▪ Mr Bossi was reported to have said that a party representative should get the post of interior minister.
▪ The interior minister for Bavaria, Guenther Beckstein, has said that Scientologists are stockpiling large amounts of cyanide and weapons.
▪ Just as strikingly, the interior minister, Sadettin Tantan, has been waging an unprecedented war on corruption.
▪ Joly's investigation has touched the former foreign minister Roland Dumas and, last month, the former interior minister Charles Pasqua.
▪ Mr Courroye's expanding investigation now includes the former interior minister, Charles Pasqua.
ministry
▪ According to the interior ministry, 16 of the inmates who died burned themselves alive.
▪ The interior ministry has issued guidelines and practical advice.
▪ The journalists mentioned were accused of taking their orders from the interior ministry in Madrid.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Almost no engine noise enters the car's interior.
▪ Heat is trapped in the Earth's interior.
▪ My eyes gradually became accustomed to the gloomy interior of the store.
▪ the car's leather interior
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aiming your light down into it, you can see right through the membrane to the cell interior.
▪ Mantle compositions that could yield both mare basalts and highland rocks are consistent with the constraints on the interior outlined earlier.
▪ The interior is now artificially lit and the appearance is impressive.
▪ The interior was cozy but unheated.
▪ The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible.
▪ Worshippers will travel through the interior of the hill for an experience of rebirth out of the Goddess's belly.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
decoration
▪ Certainly we should not see the Minoan frescoes as simple interior decoration.
▪ Dress and interior decoration began to follow Western models.
▪ Moving into the chapel itself, look first at the interior decoration.
▪ As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion, the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration.
▪ Whoever was responsible for the interior decoration of Hummingbird House had subtly co-ordinated paler, more restful shades of sun-gold and sea-blue.
▪ Wilson Decorators survey a house and agree to carry out interior decorations for £800.
▪ Like many bachelors, David hated frittering time away on interior decoration.
decorator
▪ He could have been put there by the interior decorators.
▪ As an interior decorator, Paula Curry was a real professional.
▪ Artists a category which included interior decorators and lowly house-painters were not concentrated in any particular quarter.
▪ These were not the trappings of some Victorianising interior decorator.
▪ Interested firms of interior decorators have been tendering for the work of which Mrs Lamont is expected to take charge.
design
▪ She read interior design magazines, browsed for hours in department stores comparing the textures and colours of fabrics.
▪ Full interior design service or design advice by the hour.
▪ Her background is interior design, and she works as a designer at a furniture store.
▪ Each phase is the outcome of the one before, whilst bearing the chronic imprint of an interior design.
▪ It was a smartly restored pub which lovingly recreated the interior design of its psychopathic creator a hundred years ago.
▪ This special feature tells you how to succeed with interior design.
▪ Full interior design service available as well as friendly practical advice on curtains, upholstery and colour schemes.
designer
▪ He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer.
▪ Eighty interior designers had gathered to hear her at the Washington Design Center.
▪ Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch.
▪ Both tap the opinions of fashion and interior designers and make predictions several years before the colors hit the market.
▪ The previous owners, one an interior designer, had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg's taste.
▪ Few carpet companies exhibit, making it an even more exclusive event for Stoddard Mercia amongst Britain's leading interior designers.
▪ Happy to co-ordinate with interior designers, architects or contractors.
space
▪ When my wife and I chose our Peugeot 405 it was for its comfort, performance and interior space.
▪ Her latest collection, Domestica, explores interior spaces and objects with an iconic touch.
▪ With a length of 163.2ins, width of 64.8ins and height of 50.9ins, interior space is inevitably snug.
▪ In addition, he thought that the basic decor and interior space needed little change.
▪ The interior spaces were divided by peristyles bearing classical statuary, while other statues stood in the round-arched window spaces.
▪ Inside, the great piers curve up the interior space and emphasise the verticality of the design.
wall
▪ The long, low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls, openings and window frames.
▪ In brick churches the whole construction was of this material, though interior wall facings, capitals and columns were of marble.
▪ It faintly illuminated the interior wall paintings that surrounded them.
▪ The interior walls are also of plain brick with stone arches and columns and particularly fine late Gothic traceried windows.
▪ The interior walls are entirely fresco covered.
▪ All the interior walls were of matchboard and both first floor rooms had sizeable under-stairs cupboards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As an interior decorator, Paula Curry was a real professional.
▪ In addition, he thought that the basic decor and interior space needed little change.
▪ In brick churches the whole construction was of this material, though interior wall facings, capitals and columns were of marble.
▪ The interior spaces were divided by peristyles bearing classical statuary, while other statues stood in the round-arched window spaces.
▪ The long, low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls, openings and window frames.
▪ When my wife and I chose our Peugeot 405 it was for its comfort, performance and interior space.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interior

Interior \In*te"ri*or\, n.

  1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.

  2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.

    Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.

    Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.

Interior

Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. int['e]rieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.]

  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

  2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.

    Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle.

    Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth.

    Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.

    Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interior

late 15c., from Middle French intérieur and directly from Latin interior "inner, interior, middle," comparative adjective of inter "within" (see inter-). Meaning "of the interior parts of a country" is from 1777; meaning "internal affairs of a country or state" (as in U.S. Department of the Interior) is from 1838. Interior decoration first attested 1807. Interior design from 1927.

interior

"part of a country distant from the coast," 1796, from interior (adj.); meaning "inside of a building or room" is from 1829.

Wiktionary
interior

a. 1 Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner. 2 Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland. n. 1 The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure. 2 The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts. 3 (context mathematics topology English) The set of all interior point of a set.

WordNet
interior
  1. adj. situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior]

  2. inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national]

  3. located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: inner, internal]

  4. inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"

  5. of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" [syn: midland, upcountry]

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

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

  3. the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849 [syn: Department of the Interior, Interior Department, DoI]

Gazetteer
Interior, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 77
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31620
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.725197 N, 101.983114 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57750
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Interior, SD
Interior
Wikipedia
Interior (play)

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

Interior (topology)

In mathematics, specifically in topology, the interior of a subset S of points of a topological space X consists of all points of S that do not belong to the boundary of S. A point that is in the interior of S is an interior point of S.

The interior of S is the complement of the closure of the complement of S. In this sense interior and closure are dual notions.

The exterior of a set is the interior of its complement, equivalently the complement of its closure; it consists of the points that are in neither the set nor its boundary. The interior, boundary, and exterior of a subset together partition the whole space into three blocks (or fewer when one or more of these is empty). The interior and exterior are always open while the boundary is always closed. Sets with empty interior have been called boundary sets.

Interior

Interior may refer to:

  • Interior Serrekunda, football team
  • Interior (topology), mathematical concept that includes, for example, the inside of a shape
  • Interior design, the trade of designing an architectural interior
  • Interior (Degas) (also known as The Rape), painting by Edgar Degas
  • The Interior (novel), by Lisa See
  • Interior (play), 1895 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Interior, South Dakota
  • Interior, Washington
  • Interior Township, Michigan
  • Interior ministry, sometimes called the ministry of home affairs
  • United States Department of the Interior
  • British Columbia Interior, commonly known as "The Interior"
Interior (Degas)

Interior , also known as The Rape , is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted in 1868–1869. Described as "the most puzzling of Degas's major works", it depicts a tense confrontation by lamplight between a man and a partially undressed woman. The theatrical character of the scene has led art historians to seek a literary source for the composition, but none of the sources proposed has met with universal acceptance. Even the painting's title is uncertain; acquaintances of the artist referred to it either as Le Viol or Intérieur, and it was under the latter title that Degas exhibited it for the first time in 1905. The painting is housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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.