in⋅ner
[in-er]–adjective
| 1. | situated within or farther within; interior: an inner door. |
| 2. | more intimate, private, or secret: the inner workings of the organization. |
| 3. | of or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental; spiritual: the inner life. |
| 4. | not obvious; hidden or obscure: an inner meaning. |
Related forms:
in⋅ner⋅ly, adverb, adjective
in⋅ner⋅ness, noun
in⋅ter⋅nal
[in-tur-nl]–adjective
| 1. | situated or existing in the interior of something; interior. |
| 2. | of, pertaining to, or noting the inside or inner part. |
| 3. | Pharmacology. oral (def. 4). |
| 4. | existing, occurring, or found within the limits or scope of something; intrinsic: a theory having internal logic. |
| 5. | of or pertaining to the domestic affairs of a country: the internal politics of a nation. |
| 6. | existing solely within the individual mind: internal malaise. |
| 7. | coming from, produced, or motivated by the psyche or inner recesses of the mind; subjective: an internal response. |
| 8. | Anatomy, Zoology. inner; not superficial; away from the surface or next to the axis of the body or of a part: the internal carotid artery. |
| 9. | present or occurring within an organism or one of its parts: an internal organ. |
–noun
| 10. | Usually, internals. entrails; innards. |
| 11. | an inner or intrinsic attribute. |
Origin: 1500–10; < class="ital-inline" style=" color: rgb(77, 78, 81); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: italic; font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;">internālis, equiv. to L intern(us) intern 3 + ālis -al 1
Related forms: in⋅ter⋅nal⋅i⋅ty, in⋅ter⋅nal⋅ness, noun
in⋅ter⋅nal⋅ly, adverb
in⋅te⋅ri⋅or
[in-teer-ee-er]–adjective
| 1. | being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to that which is within; inside: an interior view. |
| 3. | situated well inland from the coast or border: the interior towns of a country. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to the inland. |
| 5. | domestic: interior trade. |
| 6. | private or hidden; inner: interior negotiations of the council. |
| 7. | pertaining to the mind or soul; mental or spiritual: the interior life. |
–noun
| 8. | the internal or inner part; inside. |
| 9. | Architecture.
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| 10. | a pictorial representation of the inside of a room. |
| 11. | the inland parts of a region, country, etc.: the Alaskan interior. |
| 12. | the domestic affairs of a country as distinguished from its foreign affairs: the Department of the Interior. |
| 13. | the inner or inward nature or character of anything. |
| 14. | Mathematics. the largest open set contained in a given set, as the points in a circle not including the boundary. |
Origin: 1480–90; < class="ital-inline" style=" color: rgb(77, 78, 81); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: italic; font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;">inter- inward + -ior comp. suffix;see exterior
Related forms: in⋅te⋅ri⋅or⋅i⋅ty [in-teer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-] noun
in⋅te⋅ri⋅or⋅ly, adverb
Antonyms: 1, 8. exterior.
here is Examples showing some difference of the meaaning and usage of "Inner" and "Internal":
"Inner Diameter" of a pipe also can be said "Internal Diameter". It means the Diameter of the Inside Round or inside track.
While "Internal Coating" of a pipe, here, means the coating within the surface. like "4.
| existing, occurring, or found within the limits or scope of something; " or "- happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface " "Inner coating" can't replace the "internal coating" here, or it would be rather the meaning that "the coating for inside wall" of a pipe. Another example is about the usage: "Inner Land" indicats the meaning of "remote", and in the above dictionary it is said "within or farther within" "Internal land" is ambiguous about the indication of remote location. |
