INLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inlet mean? 

• INLET (noun)
  The noun INLET has 2 senses:

1. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

2. an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container

  Familiarity information: INLET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

inlet; recess

Hypernyms ("inlet" is a kind of...):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inlet"):

cove (a small inlet)

fiord; fjord (a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway)

loch (a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked))

Instance hyponyms:

Bristol Channel (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England)

Gulf of Aegina; Saronic Gulf (a gulf of the Aegean on the southeastern coast of Greece)

White Sea (a large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia)

Zuider Zee (a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer)

Holonyms ("inlet" is a part of...):

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

inlet; intake

Hypernyms ("inlet" is a kind of...):

opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inlet"):

air horn (air intake of a carburetor)

siamese; siamese connection (an inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building)

 Context examples 

These defects include tricuspid atresia, hypoplastic left or right heart syndrome, double outlet right ventricle, double inlet left ventricle, and other forms of single ventricle defects.

(Common Ventricle Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

This includes a static inlet performance test and a low-speed wind tunnel test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

Liquid chromatographic techniques which feature high inlet pressures, high sensitivity, and high speed.

(High Performance Liquid Chromatography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude, soundings, names of hills and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is about 25 cm long and consists of three parts: the cervical part, from the cricoid cartilage to the thoracic inlet; thoracic part, from thoracic inlet to the diaphragm; and abdominal part, below the diaphragm to the cardiac opening of the stomach.

(Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of organs surrounded by loose connective tissue, separating the two pleural sacs, between the sternum anteriorly and the vertebral column posteriorly as well as from the thoracic inlet superiorly to the diaphragm inferiorly.

(Mediastinum, NCI Thesaurus)

Any component of the group of organs surrounded by loose connective tissue, separating the two pleural sacs, between the sternum anteriorly and the vertebral column posteriorly as well as from the thoracic inlet superiorly to the diaphragm inferiorly.

(Mediastinum Part, NCI Thesaurus)

The transiting moon will be in Scorpio, which spells a yearning for privacy, so choose a charming bed-and-breakfast inn situated in or near a forest and also near water, such as a stream, lake, inlet, or babbling brook.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)