Word Finder - interior

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The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

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The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

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Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

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The set of all interior points of a set.

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Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

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the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball

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Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

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the interior parts of a region or country

The dark interior set off caution bells again.

Toby called from the interior of the warm car.

No machine will ever be an interior decorator.

I mean, I don't have any training in interior decorating.

The interior begged to be furnished with period pieces.

Ingrid hired an interior decorator when he leased the condo a few months ago.

Hands shaking, she looked around the car's interior for a cell.

Visually exploring the interior of the stone cellar, she was unable to find any sign of windows in the wall.

Her gaze flickered between it and the interior of the Sanctuary.

The interior was marble and polished wood, dating back to a time when first generation craftsmen took pride in their workmanship.

He changed into all black and strapped a sword to his back before closing his eyes and envisioning the interior of NOVA Sector.

The interior has been much destroyed by the ravages of gold-seekers and amateur excavators.

The village and exterior of the house looked run down and barely out of poverty, but the house's interior was immaculate.

Albania is perhaps the least-known region in Europe; and though more than a hundred years have passed since Gibbon described it as "a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of America," but little progress has yet been made towards a scientific knowledge of this interesting land and its inhabitants.

He observed the car's interior with the clinical distance of a scientist.

She watched him go, frowning when he turned left down the hall toward the front door rather than right to the stairwell or interior of the castle.

For a long moment, it was dark and silent, until the interior of the pod lit up with two screens, one displaying the empty space outside and the other displaying a control panel with writing similar to that of the battle planning station.

The restaurant's strip mall location is unassuming, but the interior is neat and cozy, with friendly service.

Is not our own interior white on the chart? black though it may prove, like the coast, when discovered.

The restaurant's interior is warm and inviting, with red leather booths set against cherry wood walls in the main dining room.

He opened the door, studying the interior.

The restaurant's interior is contemporary cool and decidedly adult.

The interior of the church was packed with bodies writhing to the deafening, throbbing music.

The air conditioning was high enough to make her shiver, the bright interior settling her fear of walking into some crazy person's house.

The interior of the house was romantically lit by candles, and the soft electronica music and sounds of talk added to the dark, spirited ambiance.

Alessio and a tract of the interior in the direction of Ipek was governed by the Dukajin.

In districts where the water is of a " hard nature," that is, contains bicarbonate of lime in solution, the interior of the boiler cylinders, tanks and pipes of a hot water system will become incrusted with a deposit of lime which is gradually precipitated as the water is heated to boiling point.

The lime deposit or " fur " is a poor conductor of heat, and it is therefore most detrimental to the efficiency of the system to allow the interior of the boiler or any other portion to become furred up. Further, if not removed, the fur will in a short time bring about a fracture in the boiler.

The postal and telegraph services are administered by the national government, and are under the immediate supervision of the minister of the interior.

Arrived in the river Plate in 1527, rumours reached Cabot of mineral wealth and a rich and civilized empire in the far interior, and he resolved to abandon surveying for exploration.

In the meantime the Spaniards had penetrated into the interior of what is now the Argentine Republic, and established themselves on the eastern slopes of the Andes.

Thus at the opening of the 17th century, after many adventurous efforts, and the expenditure of many lives and much treasure, the Spaniards found themselves securely established on the river Plate, and had planted a number of centres of trade and colonization in the interior.

The precipitation is greatest on the Atlantic seaboard and in the elevated regions of the interior.

The urban and rural district roads, covering a much greater mileage and classed as la petite voirie, are maintained chiefly by the communes under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior.

These institutions are under the super- In America-vision of a branch of the ministry of the Guiana interior.

Another notable feature of the interior is the so-called lake area, a district stretching to the north of Spencer Gulf.

Some of these lake-beds are at or slightly below sea-level, so that a very slight depression of the land to the south of them would connect much of the interior with the Southern Ocean.

There is, besides, a powerful determining cause in the uniform character and undivided extent of its dry interior.

Of course, in a territory of such large extent there are many varieties of climate, and the heat is greater along the coast than on the elevated lands of the interior.

A large area of the interior is watered to the extent of 20 to 30 in.

The town of Bourke, lying on the upper Darling, may be taken as an example of many of the interior districts, and illustrates peculiarly well the defects as well as the excellencies of the climate of the whole region.

This element was introduced via Torres Strait, and spread down the Queensland coast to portions of the New South Wales littoral, and also round the Gulf of Carpentaria, but has never been able to obtain a hold in the more arid interior.

Dwarfed eucalypts fringe the tree-limit on Mount Kosciusco, and the soakages in the parched interior are indicated by a line of the same trees, stunted and straggling.

Various " scrubs " characterize the interior, differing very widely from the coastal scrubs.

A remnant of the race exists in each of the provinces, while a few tribes still wander over the interior.

About the same time, in the opposite direction, south-west of Sydney, a large extent of the interior was revealed.

By this time much had thus been done to obtain an acquaintance with the eastern parts of the Australian continent, although the problem of what could become of the large rivers flowing north-west and south-west into the interior was still unsolved.

Eyre also explored the interior north of the head of Spencer Gulf, where he was misled, however, by appearances to form an erroneous theory about the water-surfaces named Lake Torrens.

But this eminent explorer had not proceeded far into the interior before he met his death, his last despatch dating from the Cogoon, 3rd of April 1848.

He had also proved that the interior of Australia was not a stony desert, like the region visited by Sturt in 1845.