inside

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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): /ˈɪnsaɪd/, /ɪnˈsaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Noun

inside (plural insides)

1. The interior or inner part.
2. The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.

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.

4. (colloquial, in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.

5. (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
6. (slang) The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.

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Adjective

inside (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.

2. Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
3. Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
4. (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
5. (baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.

6. 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

Related terms

• insider
• withinside

Translations

Adverb

inside (not comparable)

1. 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.

   2. (colloquial) In or to prison.

      He spent ten years inside, doing a stretch for burglary.

2. Indoors.

3. Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.

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Preposition

inside

1. Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.

2. Within a period of time.

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Derived terms

Anagrams

• Indies, in dies, indies, Sindie, die-ins

Latin

Verb

īnsidē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of īnsideō