Interior

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interior \In*te"ri*or\, n.
     1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a
        thing; the inside.
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     2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf.
     F. int['e]rieur. See {Inter-}, and cf. {Intimate}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.
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     2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as,
        the interior parts of a region or country.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 United States federal department charged with
          conservation and the development of natural resources;
          created in 1849 [syn: {Department of the Interior}, {Interior
          Department}, {DoI}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "interior":
     airscape, amidships, anonymous, average, belly, bosom, center,
     central, cityscape, civil, closet, cloudscape, core, deep,
     deepest recesses, depths, diameter, diaphragm, diorama, domestic,
     equator, equatorial, equidistant, exterior, farmscape, gut,
     halfway, heart, heart of hearts, heartland, hidden, hinterland,
     home, incognito, individual, indoor, inland, inlands, inmost,
     innards, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man,
     inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost, inshore, inside,
     interior man, intermediary, intermediate, intern, internal,
     internals, intestine, intimate, intrados, intrinsic, inward,
     inwards, isolated, kernel, landscape, local, mean, medial, median,
     mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle,
     middlemost, middling, midland, midlands, midmost, midriff,
     midships, midst, midway, national, nuclear, nucleus, pastoral,
     penetralia, personal, private, privy, recesses, retired,
     riverscape, scape, scene, seapiece, seascape, secluded, secret,
     secret place, secret places, sequestered, skyscape, snowscape,
     soul, thick, thick of things, townscape, up-country, upland,
     uplands, veiled, view, viscera, visceral, vital center, vitals,
     waist, waistline, waterscape, withdrawn, within, zone
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Interior, SD (town, FIPS 31620)
    Location: 43.72745 N, 101.98343 W
    Population (1990): 67 (40 housing units)
    Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 57750

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Interior, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
     Population (2000):    77
     Housing Units (2000): 53
     Land area (2000):     1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            31620
     Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
     Location:             43.725197 N, 101.983114 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     57750
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Interior, SD
      Interior