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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inwards
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
face
▪ With the back of the hands facing inwards, place one hand over the other.
▪ With hands clasped behind and palms facing inwards, raise the arms 30 times, lifting them a little higher with each count.
▪ The three most complete furnaces were built on or against a wall and faced inwards.
▪ Interlink hands behind your back, palms facing inwards.
▪ If there are two lines then it is a good idea to have the chairs facing inwards so that the teams face each other.
▪ Brownies stand in a circle facing inwards with their legs apart.
look
▪ Companies which looked inwards to Whitehall are now listening to their customers and shareholders.
▪ Divorced from any clear patronage, western artists were free to look inwards and to ignore the tastes of the masses.
▪ They have to look inwards, too - sometimes very closely - at the workings of the organization itself.
▪ His eyes swivelled in an old panic, trying to look inwards.
turn
▪ Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature, presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest.
▪ Their heads always turn either to right or left: one of their eyes turns inwards, the other upwards.
▪ But certainly some ebullience in me was checked, held in and turned inwards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At last, however, the door fell inwards upon the carpet.
▪ Brown stains caused by small flames crept inwards.
▪ One sheet lay at his feet, as yet untouched by the flames, although it was beginning to curl inwards.
▪ With hands clasped behind and palms facing inwards, raise the arms 35 times, aiming slightly higher with each count.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inwards

Inward \In"ward\, Inwards \In"wards\, adv. [AS. inweard. The ending -s is prop. a genitive ending. See Inward, a., -wards.]

  1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

  2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.

    So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward.
    --Milton.

Inwards

Inwards \In"wards\, adv. See Inward.

Wiktionary
inwards

adv. Towards the inside.

WordNet
inwards

  1. adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door" [syn: in, inward]

  2. toward the center or interior; "move the needle further inwards!" [syn: inward] [ant: outward]

Usage examples of "inwards".

A plant of Drosera, with the edges of its leaves curled inwards, so as to form a temporary stomach, with the glands of the closely inflected tentacles pouring forth their acid secretion, which dissolves animal matter, afterwards to be absorbed, may be said to feed like an animal.

Captain Craddock took a gliding step inwards, his face enigmatically hinting a sense of regret which was somehow ominous.

Presently we reached a ledge, narrow enough at first, but which widened as we followed it, and moreover sloped inwards like the petal of a flower, so that as we followed it we gradually got into a kind of rut or fold of rock, that grew deeper and deeper, till at last it resembled a Devonshire lane in stone, and hid us perfectly from the gaze of anybody on the slope below, if there had been anybody to gaze.

Thomas found himself back in the hall propelled inwards by the rush of Repealers sensing trouble.

I have brought her circling from round my shoulders to my waist and thence, with her masts all sloping inwards, to my knees, and lower still and downwards till her topmast pennants flutter against my ankles, then I, Nooz Wana, Whelmer of Ships, lift up my feet and trample her beams asunder, and there go up again to the surface of the Straits only a few broken, timbers and the memories of the sailors and of their early loves to drift for ever down the empty seas.

The boat swerved inwards, and as Wimpler gave it maximum throttle it surged ahead, and raced straight on toward the larger boat.

Junko brought Kaede old garments from Lady Noguchi, carefully unpicking them and resewing them with the faded parts turned inwards.

The wings of the battalion curved backwards and inwards, but the enemy Lancers were already behind the line and spurring into the space between the wings.

In the subjectivist, the pressure of the world forces the imagination inwards.

Thorvald, a son of Eric the Red, was sitting at the helm, and the Uniped shot an arrow into his inwards.

The handspike which secured the chief leak had worked out of its place, and the blankets and boards were forced inwards.

Sharpe stayed, watching the far door shake, then it splintered inwards and he saw the blue uniform and white crossbelt and he backed away down the steps.

A perfect englobement, a cone pouring us a Director inwards, precautions and precision on every hand.

If the glands on the disc are repeatedly touched or brushed, although no object is left on them, the marginal tentacles curve inwards.

There is only one other analogous case known to us, namely, that of certain Gramineae, which fold inwards the sides of their narrow leaves, when these are exposed to the sun and to a dry atmosphere, as described by DuvalJouve.