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inside
English
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nsa?d/, /?n?sa?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Noun
inside (plural insides)
- The interior or inner part.
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- 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.
- (colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
- (dated, Britain, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
- 1798, John Hookham Frere and George Canning, , The Loves of the Triangles
- So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides.
- So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.
- 1798, John Hookham Frere and George Canning, , The Loves of the Triangles
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
inside (comparative more inside, superlative most inside)
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.
- All the window seats were occupied, so she took an inside seat.
- 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics (?ISBN), page 731:
- 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.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being 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.
- They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
- 2011, G. M. Lucas, An Unsung Quartet, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 210:
- “They have an inside man at the base, so I didn't want to alert him. If their inside man called Mr. C about us locating the C-4, I doubt you and Gail would still be alive.”
- (of a person) 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.
- Antonym: outside
- 1974, Michael Garfield Smith, The Plural Society in the British West Indies, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 235:
- But the terms normally used to distinguish a man's resident and absent children are "inside" and "outside," the reference being to the home where the common father dwells. Only rarely will a man describe his "inside" children born out of out of wedlock as "lawful," [...]
- 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 158:
- An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]
- 2014, Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse, Karnac Books (?ISBN), page 185:
- [The person] who was going to visit her with his wife had a physical resemblance to the abuser, so some of her inside children had a strong reaction of fear and revulsion to him. They were afraid to look at the face of the guest in case he was the abuser.
- (baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- The first pitch is ... just a bit inside.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
Antonyms
- outside
Derived terms
- inside job
- inside joke
- inside salesman
Related terms
- insider
- withinside
Translations
Adverb
inside (comparative more inside, superlative most inside)
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- It started raining, so I went inside.
- The secretive residents of the massive city-ship tended to stay inside.
- (colloquial) In or to prison.
- He spent ten years inside, doing a stretch for burglary.
- Indoors.
- It was snowing, so the children stayed inside.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
- Are you laughing at us inside?
Translations
Preposition
inside
- Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
- He placed the letter inside the envelope.
- Within a period of time.
- The job was finished inside two weeks.
Translations
Anagrams
- Indies, die-ins, in dies, indies
Latin
Verb
?nsid?
- second-person singular present active imperative of ?nside?
inside From the web:
- what inside a black hole
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- what inside the nucleus
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- what inside the earth
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- what inside a lava lamp
- what inside a pimple
central
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?nt??l/
Adjective
central (comparative more central, superlative most central)
- Being in the centre.
- Having or containing the centre of something.
- Being very important, or key to something.
- Synonyms: dominant, main, principal
- (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
Derived terms
Related terms
- center
Translations
Noun
central (plural centrals)
- (especially US) centre
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /s?n?t?al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /sen?t?al/
Adjective
central (masculine and feminine plural centrals)
- central (being in the centre)
Derived terms
- centralment
- centralitat
- centralitzar
Related terms
- centre
Noun
central f (plural centrals)
- nexus; headquarters (non-military); central office
- (electricity) power plant
Synonyms
- seu (“seat or headquarters”)
Antonyms
- sucursal (“branch office”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “central” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “central” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “central” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “central” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centralis.
Noun
central c (singular definite centralen, plural indefinite centraler)
- headquarters, place whence organizations are administrated
Declension
Adjective
central
- central, being in the centre
Inflection
References
- “central” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis. Synchronically analysable as centre +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??.t?al/
Adjective
central (feminine singular centrale, masculine plural centraux, feminine plural centrales)
- central
Antonyms
- périphérique
Derived terms
- banque centrale
- chauffage central (“central heating”)
- rond central
- système nerveux central
- unité centrale
- vision centrale
Related terms
Further reading
- “central” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- raclent
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.
Adjective
central m or f (plural centrais)
- central
Derived terms
- centralismo
- centralista
- centralizar
Related terms
- centro
Further reading
- “central” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.
Adjective
central m (feminine singular centrala, masculine plural centrals, feminine plural centralas)
- central
Related terms
- centre
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /s?.?t?a?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /s?.?t?aw/, [s???????.?t?ä??]
- Hyphenation: cen?tral
Adjective
central m or f (plural centrais, comparable)
- central
Noun
central f (plural centrais)
- centre
- headquarters
- (Portugal, soccer) back (player in a position behind most players on the team)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French central, Latin centr?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t??en?tral]
Adjective
central m or n (feminine singular central?, masculine plural centrali, feminine and neuter plural centrale)
- central, pivotal, nodal
Declension
Related terms
- centru
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?en?t?al/, [??n??t??al]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /sen?t?al/, [s?n??t??al]
Adjective
central (plural centrales)
- central
Derived terms
- centralismo
- centralista
- centralizar
- centralmente
- precentral
Noun
central f (plural centrales)
- headquarter
- center
- power station
- Synonym: centra eléctrica
Derived terms
Related terms
- centrar
- céntrico
- centro
Further reading
- “central” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin centr?lis, from centrum (“center point”) + -?lis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
central
- central, centralized, situated at the centre (of a town)
- central, important
Declension
Related terms
Etymology 2
Clipping of centralstation, or any other compound of the adjective.
Noun
central c
- a central, a centre, a central station, a junction, a connection point, an electrical switchboard
Declension
Related terms
References
- central in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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