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Definition: Inland |
InlandAdjective1. Situated away from an area's coast or border. Adverb1. Towards or into the interior of a region; "the town is five miles inland". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | The interior of a country or region. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| INDRIS | English | Inland Navigation Demonstrator for River Information Services | N/A |
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| Antonym: coastal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interiority | Adjective: interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding; inmost, innermost; deep seated, gut; intestine, intestinal; inland; subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic;Adjective: interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding; inmost, innermost; deep seated, gut; intestine, intestinal; inland; subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic; interstitial; (interjacent); inwrought; (intrinsic); inclosed; Verb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Inland Seaport (1953) The Inland Sea (1991) | |
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![]() | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Deposited sand on inland side of cut through Washburn Island. Following passage of Hurricane Bob on August 19. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ![]() | Plate 211. The Inland Alewife or Skipjack. Clupea chrysochloris (Raf.), J. & G. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Research Vessel HIODON. This vessel was used in inland studies of freshwater reservoirs, in particular Oahe Reservoir on the Missouri River. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Wadi Rum in Jordan, only about 50 miles inland. Reminiscent of the American Southwest. Credit: Small World. |
![]() | Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed are taking a pro-active stance to save the longest inland salmon runs in the world. Their actions will help restore the Lemhi River, shown, to its former status as prime salmon habitat. Credit: Joel McNee. | Inland saltgrass basin wildrye Satus Creek near Yakima Reservoir. Credit: Unknown. | |
Working with Inland Northwest Wildlife Council to plant trees at Lakeview Ranch, Lincoln County, Washington. Credit: Todd Thompson. | ![]() | East elevation; section. Measured drawing delineated by Judith E. Collins, 1989. (Reproduction Number: HABS, NC-357, sheet 2 of 13) Since December 1870 this black-and-white-striped lighthouse has been helping mariners make their way through the Diamond Shoals off the North Carolina coast. At 208 feet, it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. In 1999, the National Park Service moved the lighthouse 2,900 feet inland to a new site in an effort to keep it from toppling into the Atlantic Ocean. The controversial relocation project took twenty-three days to execute. The light was reactivated on November 13, 1999. Credit: Library of Congress. | |
![]() | "Providing ammunition to keep the big guns of the heavy cruiser USS Boston on the line is almost a daily task for the fast combat support ships like USS Sacramento. The Seventh Fleet cruiser keeps a vigil close offshore, to provide heavy gunfire in support of Marine operations inland. When not assisting the Marines with her eight and five-inch guns, Boston patrols on Sea Dragon destroying military targets along the coast of North Vietnam." (quoted from the original photo caption). Photographed by Chief Journalist Robert D. Moeser, USN. Photo is dated 25 June 1967. This image, taken from above Boston's port bow, shows her forward triple 8"/55 gun turrets, with eight-inch powder tanks and projectiles on deck nearby. Sacramento (AOE-1) is steaming alongside. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Burning oil tanks on Sand Island, Midway, following the Japanese air attack delivered on the morning of 4 June 1942. These tanks were located near what was then the southern shore of Sand Island. This view looks inland from the vicinity of the beach. Three Laysan Albatross ("Gooney Bird") chicks are visible in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Pier" by Jamie Harris Commentary: "The Inland Waterway, NC." |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And the same measure may be allowed still without prejudice to any body, as full as the world seems: for supposing a man, or family, in the state they were at first peopling of the world by the children of Adam, or Noah; let him plant in some inland, vacant places of America, we shall find that the possessions he could make himself, upon the measures we have given, would not be very large, nor, even to this day, prejudice the rest of mankind, or give them reason to complain, or think themselves injured by this man's incroachment, though the race of men have now spread themselves to all the corners of the world, and do infinitely exceed the small number was at the beginning. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Convention of December 21, 1904, regarding the exemption of hospital ships from dues and charges in ports (14) Convention of February 4, 1898, regarding the tonnage measurement of vessels for inland navigation. (reference) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I see far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets |
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Health | Coastal tick populations thrive in areas of high rainfall, but ticks are also found at inland locations. (references) | |
EEE virus is an alphavirus that was first identified in the 1930's and currently occurs in focal locations along the eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast and some inland Midwestern locations of the United States. (references) | ||
Business | The major ports will be equipped with integrated inland transportation systems. (references) | |
This is particularly true of small, inland river ports along the Yangtze River. (references) | ||
The rest is allocated for development of inland waterways and training of maritime professionals. (references) | ||
Economic History | Somalia | Italian occupation gradually extended inland. (references) |
Norway | Climate: Temperate along the coast, colder inland. (references) | |
Kenya | White oils are transported inland mainly by pipeline. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tonga | The court system consists of the Supreme Court (which has original jurisdiction over all major cases), the police magistrates' courts, a general court, a court martial for the TDS, a court tribunal for the police force, and a court of review for the Inland Revenue Department. (references) |
China | In the cases of families that already have two children, one of the parents "is encouraged to undergo sterilization." According to a credible report, the number of couples undergoing sterilization procedures after giving birth to two children increased significantly in at least one inland province. (references) | |
Minorities | Kenya | Members of the coastal Bajuni, Mijikenda, and Digo communities accused the Government of denying them their rights to land, and of favoring members of inland "up-country" ethnic groups, who migrated to the coast largely during the period when Kenyatta was president. (references) |
Political Economy | NETHERLANDS | It is noted for stable industrial relations; a large current account surplus from trade and overseas investments; net exports of natural gas; and a unique position as a European transportation hub with excellent ports, and air, road, rail, and inland waterway transport. (references) |
BRAZIL | The Brazilian Congress approved five constitutional amendments in 1995 that eliminated the constitutional distinction between national and foreign capital; opened the state telecommunications, petroleum and natural gas distribution monopolies to private (including foreign) participation; and permitted foreign participation in coastal and inland shipping. (references) | |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | This, together with additional revenues from the sale of offshore leases and tighter controls on spending, has contributed to slight fiscal surpluses since 1995. Simplification of the personal income tax regime in 1997, by eliminating many deductions in favor of a set standard deduction, and restructuring of the Board of Inland Revenue were designed to further boost revenue collection. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | Plovdiv, the only inland free zone, is the most profitable, with 24 investment projects. (references) |
Australia | The 1989 amendment also increases the amount of inland freight that can be included in the dutiable value of the goods. (references) | |
Norway | Quality assurance is paramount for all equipment destined for the Norwegian offshore market, and is generally preferred in the inland market. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | Inland passenger and freight are conveyed by the road and rail network. (references) |
Greece | Greek inland surface transportation is via a road and railroad network. (references) | |
Israel | Israel also has advanced inland and international transportation facilities. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Kingdom | The Board of Inland Revenue examined over 5,000 cases in the 8 months leading up to November and recovered $2.9 million (2 million pounds) for 5,478 underpaid employees nationwide. (references) |
Indonesia | Most children work on jermals recruited from farming communities in inland regions and once they arrive at the work site, miles offshore, they are held as virtual prisoners and are not permitted to leave for at least 3 months or until a replacement worker can be found. (references) | |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Since your last session the Northern tribes have sold to us the lands between the Connecticut Reserve and the former Indian boundary and those on the Ohio from the same boundary to the rapids and for a considerable depth inland. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The regular force amounts nearly to the number required by law, and is stationed along the Atlantic and inland frontiers. |
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| "Inland" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 74.29% of the time. "Inland" is used about 1,538 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 74.29% | 1,143 | 6,703 |
| Adverb (general) | 25.71% | 396 | 14,082 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,538 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Inland Resources Inc |
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1. Inland, NE |
Expressions using "inland": categories of navigable inland waterways ♦ European Federation for Inland Water Transport ♦ goods in transit by inland waterways throughout ♦ hazardous goods by inland waterways ♦ inland bill ♦ inland climate ♦ inland ice ♦ inland navigation ♦ Inland Navigation Europe ♦ inland postage ♦ inland produce ♦ inland revenue ♦ inland sea ♦ inland trade ♦ inland waterways passenger disembarked ♦ inland waterways passenger embarked ♦ inland waterways transport enterprise turnover ♦ inland waterways transport enterprise value added ♦ inland waterways transport vessel ♦ navigable inland waterway regularly used for transport ♦ place of embarkment on an inland waterways transport vessel ♦ place of loading on inland waterways transport vessel ♦ urban inland waterways transport. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "inland": fished-inland. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "inland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i brendshëm (domestic, esoteric, immanent, indoor, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, intramural, intrinsic, inward, Midland, seamy), në brendësi (in private, interior), brenda (in, in doors, inboard, indoors, inside, inside of, into, inwardly, within). (various references) | |
Arabic | في الداخل (in, indoors, inside, into, therein), نحو الداخل (inside, inward), وطني (country, domestic, national, nationalist, nationalistic, native, patriotic, patriotically), داخلية البلاد (interior), داخلي (domestic, female, in, indoor, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, inward, parietal, residential), داخل البلاد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вътрешност (core, inside, interior, lining), вътрешен (domestic, endo-, home, in, indoor, inner, inside, interior, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, mediterranean, mental), отдалечен (back, distant, far, far off, faraway, off, out, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, remote, removed, ulterior, unget-at-able). (various references) | |
Chinese | 內陸 (interior), 內地 (interior), 内地. (various references) | |
Czech | vnitrozemský (landlocked, mediterranean), vnitrozemí (up country), vnitřní (domestic, inner, interior, internal, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, male), tuzemský (domestic, homegrown), domácí (brownie, domestic, domiciliary, home, homegrown, homelike, homemade, home-made, indoor, internal, native, tame, vernacular). (various references) | |
Danish | indland. (various references) | |
Dutch | binnenland. (various references) | |
Farsi | داخله , درون مرزی , درون کشور. (various references) | |
Finnish | sisämaassa, sisämaahan (up country), kotimaan . (domestic, home). (various references) | |
French | intérieur (indoor, inner, inside, interior, internal, inward). (various references) | |
German | inland (home). (various references) | |
Greek | ενδοχώρα (hinterland). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פנים הארץ (hinterland). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hazai (domestic, home, home grown, home-made, indigenous, national, vernacular). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pedalaman (back country, hinterland, interior). (various references) | |
Italian | interno (extension, home, indoor, in-house, inner, inside, interior, intern, internal, inward, iternal, lining, Midland, resident, residential). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 内陸 , 内地 (homeland, interior of country, mainland). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ないりく, ないち (homeland, interior of country, internal or domestic affairs, mainland). (various references) | |
Korean | 내륙. (various references) | |
Manx | cheusthie (indoor, inner; subjectivist, inside, interior, within), cheerey (air by heat; rural, air; rural, parch, sun-dry, torrefy), antraieagh (interior), antraie (interior of country). (various references) | |
Norwegian | innland, innenriks (domestic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inlanday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | interior (bowels, country, depth, doggerel, inboard, indoor, indwelling, inner, inside, interior, internal, inward, up-country). (various references) | |
Romanian | intern (domestic, inner, interior, internal, internally, inward, resident), interior (dwelling, home, house, in, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, inward, Midland, midst), spre interior, din interiorul, autohton (aboriginal, aborigine, autochthonous). (various references) | |
Russian | внутренний (back-end, domestic, endo-, endogeneous, indoor, in-house, inner, inner tube, innermost, inside, internal, interum, intestine, intimate, intrinsical, mediterranean). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | unutrašnji (inboard, indoor, inner, inside, interior, internal, intrinsic, inward), u unutrašnjosti, domaći (domestic, home, home-bred, homelike, homemade, home-made, homey, homy, indigenous, interior, native). (various references) | |
Spanish | interior (domestic, home, inboard, indoor, inner, innermost, inside, interior, internal, inward, outback). (various references) | |
Swedish | inrikes (domestic, in the country, internal). (various references) | |
Thai | เข้าในประเทศ, บริเวณภายในประเทศ, ซึ่งอยู่ภายในประเทศ. (various references) | |
Turkish | içeride (in, up, within, within doors), içe doğru (inwards), iç (bowels, civil, core, domestic, endo-, guts, in, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, inward, refill, stuffing, within), karasal (continental, terrestrial), denizden uzakta, denizden uzak olan, ülkenin iç kısmı, ülke içi (intestine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | середина країни, розташований всередині країни, всередині країни, внутрішній (domestic, in, inboard, in-house, inlying, inner, inside, interior, intern, internal, intestinal, intestine, inward, routine, within), в глибині країни. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vùng nội địa, vùng ở sâu trong nước, về phía trong nước nội địa, ở trong nước (home, inner), ở sâu trong nước nội địa, ở sâu trong nước. (various references) | |
Welsh | canoldir (inland region). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mediterranea. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inland": inlander, inlanders, inlands. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inland": mainland. (additional references) | |
Words containing "inland": mainlander, mainlanders, mainlands. (additional references) | |
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"Inland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaland, Eemland, endland, finland, icland, ilan, iland, ilande, infand, Inglind, inlane, inload, irland, Irlanda, Nalanda, unbland, Vinland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inland" (pronounced i"nla'nd) |
| 5 | -n l a' n d | mainland, sunland. |
| 4 | -l a' n d | Badland, cropland, lowland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmland, Fatherland, flatland, grassland, heartland, hinterland, homeland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, Southland, Timberland, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, longhand, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: nidal. | |
-2 letters: anil, dial, laid, lain, land, linn, nail. | |
-3 letters: aid, ail, ain, and, ani, dal, din, inn, lad, lid, lin, nan, nil. | |
-4 letters: ad, ai, al, an, id, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: annelid, inlands, landing, lindane. | |
+2 letters: annelids, candling, dandling, dangling, dentinal, disannul, handling, inlander, ladening, landings, landline, landmine, lindanes, mainland, mandolin, nonideal, nontidal, nonvalid, pineland, sandling, unlading, unnailed. | |
+3 letters: almandine, annelidan, antinodal, candlepin, celandine, damningly, dandelion, decennial, denominal, deplaning, disannuls, handlings, inlanders, islanding, kundalini, landlines, landmines, mainlands, mainlined, mandoline, mandolins, pinelands, pinnacled, sandaling, sandlings, unaligned, underlain, unhandily, unleading, unloading, zinfandel. | |
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