inside
Forms
- Plural
- insides
Definitions
1.The interior or inner part.
- Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
- The inside of the building has been extensively restored.
2.The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- On a motorway, you should never pass another vehicle on the inside.
3.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.
- The car in front drifted wide on the bend, so I darted up the inside to take the lead.
4.The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.(colloquial)
- Eating that stuff will damage your insides.
1.Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- The inside surface of the cup is unpainted.
2.Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- All the window seats were occupied, so she took an inside seat.
- Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.
- As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.
3.Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
4.Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
- The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
- The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
- They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1091
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
From Middle English ynneside; equivalent to in- + side.
Compare German Innenseite (“inside”), Danish inderside (“inside”), Swedish insida (“inside”), Dutch binnenzijde (“inside”), German Low German Binnensied, Binnersied (“inside”), Saterland Frisian Binnersiede (“inside”).