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Language Translation for : inner
| Spanish: | interior; (inner tube= cámara), | German: | inner, | Japanese: | 内の |
| in·ner
(ĭn'ər) Pronunciation Key
adj.
[Middle English, from Old English innera; see en in Indo-European roots.] in'ner n., in'ner·ly adv. & adj., in'ner·ness n. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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inner
c.1400, from O.E. inra, comp. of inne (adv.) "inside" (see in). Inner city, in ref. to poverty and crime, is attested from 1968.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| inner | |
adjective | |
| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" [ant: outer] |
| 3. | innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" |
| 4. | confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" [syn: inside] |
| 5. | exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government" |
| 6. | inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear" |
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Inner
In"ner\, a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In.]1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. --Milton. 3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also,the place of their sittings. Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof,in a double-plated roof. Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms. Inner square (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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