Inland vs Inside - What's the difference?
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Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
:* This wide inland sea. .
:* From inland regions to the distant main. .
Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.
Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange.
The interior part of a country. Shakespeare
Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook .
:* The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. .
The interior or inner or lesser part.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
(colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
(dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
* The Anti-Jacobin
* (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.
(colloquial) In prison.
Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.
(baseball) A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc.
Inland is a related term of inside.
As nouns the difference between inland and inside
is that inland is homeland, as opposed to foreign country; in composites: domestic while inside is the interior or inner or lesser part.As a preposition inside is
within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.As an adverb inside is
within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.As an adjective inside is
originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.inland
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(-)Adverb
(en adverb)inside
English
Noun
(en noun)- Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides .
- So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- He placed the letter inside the envelope.
Adverb
(en adverb)- It started raining, so I went inside .
- He's inside , doing a stretch for burglary.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
- The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
- They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
- The first pitch is ... just a bit inside .
- Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.