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Interior vs Decoration - What's the difference?

interior | decoration |

As nouns the difference between interior and decoration

is that interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure while decoration is decoration.

As an adjective interior

is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

interior

English

Alternative forms

* interiour (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
    • the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
  • Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
    • the interior parts of a region or country

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * interior decoration * interior design * interior designer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  • The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
    • ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
  • (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

    • Antonyms

    * (l)

    decoration

    English

    ("decoration on Wikiquote")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
  • That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
    • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
  • Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.

    • Related terms

    * decorate

    References

    * (etymology)

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