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English Dictionary: inner	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for inner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inner adj located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. Synonym(s): inner, interior, internal located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" Antonym(s): outer(a) innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" Synonym(s): inner, internal, intimate confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" Synonym(s): inside, inner, privileged exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government" inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inner \In"ner\, a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See {In}.] 1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. --Milton. 3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. {Inner house} (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also,the place of their sittings. {Inner jib} (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. {Inner plate} (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof,in a double-plated roof. {Inner post} (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms. {Inner square} (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.