Hypertext Webster Gateway: "interior"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
interior
adj 1: 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}]
n 1: 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 federal department charged with conservation and the
development of natural resources; created in 1849 [syn: {Department
of the Interior}, {Interior Department}, {Interior}]
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