Meaning of INNER
| Pronunciation: | | 'inur
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- [adj] (anatomy) inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"
- [adj] 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.
- [adj] innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
- [adj] exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"
- [adj] confined to an exclusive or group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information"
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| | Synonyms: | | exclusive, inside, interior, internal, intimate, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, privileged |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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