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INNER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inner mean?
• INNER (adjective)
The adjective INNER has 6 senses:
1. located inward
2. located or occurring within or closer to a center
3. innermost or essential
4. confined to an exclusive group
5. exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
6. inside or closer to the inside of the body
Familiarity information: INNER used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located inward
Synonyms:
Context example:
an internal sense of rightousness
Similar:
inward (relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Located or occurring within or closer to a center
Context example:
an inner room
Similar:
inmost; innermost (situated or occurring farthest within)
inside (away from the outer edge)
Also:
central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)
Attribute:
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Antonym:
outer (being on the outside or further from a center)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Innermost or essential
Synonyms:
Context example:
the intimate structure of matter
Similar:
intrinsic; intrinsical (belonging to a thing by its very nature)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Confined to an exclusive group
Synonyms:
inner; inside; privileged
Context example:
privileged information
Similar:
exclusive (excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
Context example:
inner circles of government
Similar:
exclusive (excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Inside or closer to the inside of the body
Context example:
the inner ear
Similar:
internal (happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface)
Domain category:
anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)
Context examples
The bustle in the vestibule, as she passed along an inner lobby, assured her that they were already in the house.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Rushing over it, we found ourselves in the inner room.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And while he exchanged the stupidities of stupid minds with them, before his inner sight towered the book-shelves of the library, filled with the wisdom of the ages.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The presence of these materials had never before been confirmed in a KBO, and they strongly suggest that 2004 EW95 formed in the inner Solar System.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mtPTP) complex, which includes ANT, mediates sudden increase in inner mitochondrial membrane permeability common in apoptosis.
(Adenine Nucleotide Translocator-2, NCI Thesaurus)
“I am a poor man,” said he, as he patted it affectionately, and thrust it into the depths of his inner pocket.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One orbits on the inner border and the other on the outer.
(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The fatty acid-carnitine is transported into the matrix by a transporter protein in the inner mitochondrial membrane.
(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The middle ear leads to the inner ear.
(Middle Ear, NCI Thesaurus)
A semicircular meniscus located towards the inner aspect of the knee joint.
(Meniscus Medialis, NCI Thesaurus)
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