Dictionary Definition
inside adj
1 relating to or being within or near the inner
side or limit; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside
out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter" [ant:
outside]
2 being or applying to the inside of a building;
"an inside wall" [syn: inside(a)]
3 located, suited for, or taking place within a
building; "indoor activities for a rainy day"; "an indoor pool"
[syn: indoor(a)] [ant:
outdoor(a)]
4 confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner
knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" [syn:
inner, privileged]
5 away from the outer edge; "an inner lane"; "the
inside lane"
6 within some bounds; especially of an
organization; "an inside job"
Noun
4 in reality; "she is very kind at heart" [syn:
at
heart, at bottom,
deep
down, in
spite of appearance]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The interior or inner part.
- The inside of the building has been extensively restored.
- 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.
- (in plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the
guts.
- Eating that stuff will damage your insides.
Preposition
- Within the interior
of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of
reference.
- He placed the letter inside the envelope.
- In prison.
- He's inside, doing a stretch for burglary.
Adverb
- Within or towards the interior of something,
especially a building.
- It started raining, so I went inside.
Translations
inside
- Czech: uvnitř
- Finnish: sisäpuoli, sisällä
- German: nach innen, herein, drinnen, innerhalb, im innern, im inneren, innerhalb
towards
- Czech: dovnitř
- Finnish: sisään
Adjective
- Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.
- The reporter had received inside information about the
forthcoming takeover.
- The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
- The reporter had received inside information about the
forthcoming takeover.
- A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- The first pitch is ... just a bit inside.
- Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course
etc.
- Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.
Synonyms
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Translations
within
- Czech: uvnitř
- Dutch: binnen
- Finnish: sisäpiiri, sisäpuolinen, sisäinen
- Italian: dentro
- Korean: 안 (an), 속 (sok), 내 (內, nae)
- Kurdish:
- Malayalam: അകം (akam)
- Serbian: unutrašnjost, unutra
- Slovene: notranjost
Extensive Definition
Inside can refer to:
In film:
- Inside (1996 film), a TV-Movie starring Eric Stoltz
- Inside (2006 film), a thriller starring Nicholas D'Agosto
- Inside (2007 film), originally À l'intérieur, a French horror film directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury.
- The Inside, a 2005 crime television series
In music:
- Inside Recordings, a record label
- Inside (Eloy album)
- Inside (Ronnie Milsap album)
- Inside (Matthew Sweet album)
- Inside (Presence album)
- Inside (Orphanage album)
- Inside (Monica song)
- Inside (White Heart album)
- Inside (David Reilly EP)
- Inside (Ronnie Milsap song)
- "Inside", a song from 5150 (album) by Van Halen
- "Inside", a 1994 single by the band Stiltskin
inside in French: Inside
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
advantaged, advantageous, arranged, at, at bottom, auricular, backing, backwards, basically, between us,
bosom, bowels, breast, by nature, center, center of life, central, clandestine, closet, confidential, contents, core, deep, deepest recesses, entrails, esoteric, esoteric reality,
everted, exclusive, favorable, favored, fundamentally, guts, heart, heart of hearts, herein, hushed, imprisoned, in, in petto, in prison, incarcerated, indoor, inmost, inmost heart, inmost
soul, innards, inner, inner landscape, inner
life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost, inside of, inside
out, insides, interior, interior man,
intern, internal, internals, intestine, intimate, into, intrados, intrinsic, inward, inwards, lining, middle, nerve center, not for
publication, off the record, penetralia, prearranged, preferential, preferred, private, privileged, privy, propitious, quick, recesses, reversed, sealed, secret, secret heart, secret
place, secret places, soul,
spirit, stomach, stuffing, therein, tripes, true being, true
inwardness, under privilege, unpublishable, viscera, vital center, vital
principle, vitals,
within, withindoors