Internal

Definition: Internal

Internal

Adjective

1. Happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering".

2. Occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation".

3. Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics".

4. 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.

5. Innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "internal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Publishing & Graphic Arts

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Internal

Evidence

Oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; (demonstration); evidence in chief.

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:

Intrinsicality

Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.

Crosswords: Internal

Have we an internal sequin issue to deal with, Benjamin (Benny and Joon ; writing credit: Barry Berman)

Yes, but his external existence was in no way compared to his internal agony of the loneliness he felt (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

Suppose by the time it got to Internal Revenue it only weighed 800 pounds (I Spy; writing credit: James B. Allardice)

Are you suffering from internal parasites (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Tell me, are you guys with the Internal Revenue Service (The Omega Man; writing credit: Richard Matheson; John William Corrington)

An Internal Triangle (1913)

Internal Cumbustion (2003)

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References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Electrical Equipment and Parts for Internal Combustion Engines in Africa (reference)

• The World Market for Generators, Cut-Outs, and Electrical Ignition or Starting Equipment Used for Spark-Ignition or Compression-Ignition Internal Combustion Engines: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Internal Combustion Piston Engines and Parts in New Caledonia (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Internal Combustion Piston Engines and Parts Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Marine-propulsion Internal Combustion Piston Engines in Israel (reference)

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Books

• Co2 Abatement and Economic Structural Change in the European Internal Market (Contributions to Economics) (reference)

• Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook- 2nd Edition (reference)

• The Internal Sell: Encouraging Executive Influence and Accomplishment (reference)

• Handbook of Air Pollution From Internal Combustion Engines (reference)

• Multi-Systemic Auto-Immune Diseases: An Integrated Approach: Dermatological and Internal Aspects (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Annals Of Internal Medicine (reference)

• Association For Healthcare Internal Auditors Membership (reference)

• Auditing Rivista Dell Associazione Italiana Internal Auditor (reference)

• Current Opinion In Internal Medicine (reference)

• Internal Auditor (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Righteous Riders: Internal Affairs (reference)

• Dragon Ball Z:Fusion - Internal Strug (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Internal Empire (reference)

• Internal Wrangler (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Western Digital Internal EIDE 120GB Hard Drive (WD1200BBRTL) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• General Tools 139B 1/2" Internal Pipe Wrench (reference)

• JDS Company AT2003 3-Pocket Internal Bag Filter (For 750) (reference)

• JDS Company AT2006 5-Pocket Internal Bag Filter (For 8-12 and 10-16) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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These are several schematic drawings of the anatomy of the breast, showing the internal and external structures of the breast. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Pictured is a breast cancer cell, photographed by a scanning electron microscope, which produces a 3-dimensional images. This picture shows the overall shape of the cell's surface at a very high magnification. Cancer cells are best identified by internal details, but research with a scanning electron microscope can show how cells respond in changing environments and can show mapping distribution of binding sites of hormones and other biological molecules. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Tertiary syphilis occurs many years after initial untreated primary syphilis. Gummas, or internal tissue granulation, form and result in severe damage to the skin, bone, and liver. Credit: CDC.

Internal View of Fathometer From the manual - "The Submarine Fathometer". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Completed tower with internal instrument tripod at Station Foss This station took 1 and 1/2 days to complete Photo #5 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 8. L. Linsbauer's photometer. Left: a picture of the unit. Right: a picture of the internal photometer mechanism. This instrument was invented by Ludwig Linsbauer for use in fresh water. It was used in Lake Traunsee in the northern part of Austria in 1904 at small depths. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 49. Float invented by Prince Albert I of Monaco and Georges Pouchet for study of currents in the North Atlantic off l'HIRONDELLE in 1887. Left: the unit as it would be seen in the water. Right: the internal structure of the float. A thousand of these floats were released mainly northwest of the Azores in July 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Studying internal structure and organisms of coral NOAA scientists Dr. Tony Picciolo, Dave Hardy, and Darrell Knoll. Credit: Small World.

An AIM-9 Sidewinder missile begins its early separation from an F-22 Raptor. The major milestone test evaluated the next-generation fighter's ability to fire an air-to-air missile from an internal weapons bay. (U.S. Air Force p.; photo by Judson Brohmer)
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St. Croix hair sheep have a high resistance to certain internal parasites such as barberpole stomach worms. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Perry Rech..

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As regards internal commercial air traffic, the aircraft of the, Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Germany most favoured nation treatment. (reference)

It is not our duty at this time when difficulties are so numerous to interfere forcibly in the internal affairs of countries which we have not conquered in war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Zaphod wondered what to do about all this, and after a brief but hectic internal debate decided that passing out would be the very thing

At the instant the traveller, after the internal deliberation which we have just indicated, was making up his mind to go back, this boy returned

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Health

Archives of Internal Medicine. (references)

In Principles of Internal Medicine. (references)

This is called internal radiation therapy. (references)

Business

Police forces maintain internal security. (references)

Mexico's record in internal union democracy and transparency is mixed. (references)

All imported cars should be registered with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. (references)

Children

Mozambique

ADEMO's effectiveness during the year was hindered by internal conflicts. (references)

Macedonia

Like other civilians, children were caught in the country's internal conflict. (references)

Uganda

This large number of orphans resulted from previous civil wars, the internal displacement of persons, and HIV/AIDS. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkmenistan

Citizens still carry internal passports. (references)

Taiwan

The authorities do not restrict freedom of internal travel. (references)

Syria

Religious groups tend to avoid any involvement in internal political affairs. (references)

Economic History

Cote d'Ivoire

Government internal and external debt ballooned. (references)

Zambia

The ZDF is designed primarily for internal defense. (references)

Haiti

Both the internal and the export sectors were left decapitalized. (references)

Human Rights

China

All major hotels have a sizable internal security presence. (references)

Colombia

In September 2000, the ELN reportedly held an internal trial. (references)

Pakistan

All three were found guilty by an internal police investigation. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

Members of indigenous communities continued to be victims of all sides in the internal conflict, and a number of them were killed. (references)

Guatemala

Indigenous people were the most common victims of extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights abuses during the internal conflict. (references)

Mexico

The bill addresses government recognition of indigenous people, their right to internal self-government, the legal standing of traditional forms of justice, indigenous input into national, state and municipal development plans, and control over natural resources. (references)

Minorities

Bahrain

While the defense and internal security forces predominantly are Sunni, Shi'a citizens now are allowed to hold posts in these forces; however, they do not hold positions of significance. (references)

Angola

Years of war and internal dislocation have produced substantial integration of ethnic and linguistic groups, particularly in the coastal areas, where as much as half of the population resides. (references)

Netherlands

Each year the University of Leiden, in collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Anne Frank Foundation, investigates the extent of rightwing and racist violence against minorities. (references)

Political Economy

Guatemala

The PNC has sole responsibility for internal security. (references)

Bahrain

It did not play a role in internal security during the year. (references)

Haiti

Child labor and internal trafficking of children were problems. (references)

Political Rights

Portugal

Some political parties have adopted internal quotas for women. (references)

East Timor

UNTAET officials headed the ministries of Internal Security, Justice, Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs, and Finance. (references)

Paraguay

The new Electoral Code requires that 20 percent of each party's candidates in their internal primaries for elective office be women. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

The customs union implementation date could slip due to ongoing internal GCC differences. (references)

Tanzania

Previously, Tanzania used non-tariff trade barriers to protect local industries and its internal market. (references)

Turkey

Nearly three hundred additional companies have established internal quality control regimes over the past year. (references)

Travel

Uruguay

There is very limited internal passenger railway service. (references)

Georgia

The condition of the internal roads in the country remains poor. (references)

Israel

Limited internal air service is available on Fridays and Saturdays. (references)

Women

Benin

Judges and police also are reluctant to intervene in domestic disputes; society and law enforcement considers such cases to be an internal family matter. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

The law requires employers to establish internal committees for accident prevention in workplaces. (references)

Haiti

The law does not prohibit trafficking in persons, and internal trafficking of children is a problem. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "internal": collector of internal revenue ♦ female internal reproductive organ ♦ frustrated total internal reflection ♦ hair internal crack ♦ internal acoustic duct ♦ internal aerial ♦ internal affairs ♦ internal angle ♦ Internal angles ♦ internal audit ♦ internal auditory artery ♦ internal auditory canal ♦ internal auditory meatus ♦ internal auditory vein ♦ internal bleeding ♦ internal bond strength ♦ internal broaching of helical grooves ♦ Internal Capsule ♦ internal carotid artery ♦ internal cerebral vein ♦ internal check ♦ internal checking ♦ internal chill ♦ internal combustion ♦ internal combustion engine ♦ internal control ♦ internal courier ♦ internal devices ♦ internal diameter ♦ internal drive ♦ internal ear ♦ internal ear canal ♦ internal evidence ♦ internal exchange of obligations ♦ internal field separators ♦ Internal Fixators ♦ internal flag swap ♦ internal font ♦ Internal gear ♦ internal gun ♦ internal haemorrhoids ♦ internal hemorrhoids ♦ internal iliac artery ♦ internal iliac vein ♦ internal jugular vein ♦ internal leakage ♦ internal loan ♦ Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis ♦ internal market ♦ internal matter ♦ internal maxillary artery ♦ internal medicine ♦ Internal navigation ♦ internal organ ♦ internal organs ♦ internal pain ♦ internal part ♦ internal pressure ♦ internal public debt ♦ internal Qi Gong ♦ internal Qigong ♦ internal radiation ♦ internal recruitment ♦ internal rectusmuscle ♦ internal reflexion ♦ internal representation ♦ internal respiration ♦ internal revenue ♦ internal revenue agent ♦ internal revenue office ♦ internal revenue service ♦ internal rhyme ♦ internal sapwood ♦ internal screw ♦ internal secretion ♦ internal security ♦ internal space ♦ internal specialist ♦ internal spermatic artery ♦ Internal stored program ♦ internal stresses ♦ internal temperature ♦ internal thread ♦ internal thread broaching ♦ internal trade ♦ internal Translator ♦ internal turning ♦ internal vibrator ♦ internal wall ♦ internal waste ♦ male internal reproductive organ ♦ prolapsed internal haemorrhoids ♦ prolapsed internal hemorrhoids ♦ remitting bank's internal number ♦ safety washer with internal sprag ♦ tab washer with internal tongue ♦ the internal sense ♦ tongued washer with internal tongue. Additional references.

Beginning with "internal": Internal-combustion, internal-combustion engine, internal-distribution, internal-external, Internal-External Control, internal-management, internal-market, internal-secretion, internal-security, internal-trade.

Ending with "internal": sentence-internal.

Albanian

i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled), i brendshëm (domestic, esoteric, immanent, indoor, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, intestine, intimate, intramural, intrinsic, inward, Midland, seamy), organet e brendshme (innards, viscera). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معد للاستعمال عن طريق المعد, ‏ذاتي (personal, spontaneous, subjective), ‏داخلي (domestic, female, in, indoor, inland, inner, inside, interior, intestine, inward, parietal, residential), ‏باطني (inner, interior, inward, mystic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вътрешни качества, вътрешен (domestic, endo-, home, in, indoor, inland, inner, inside, interior, intimate, intrinsic, inward, mediterranean, mental), душевен (mental, psychic, psychical). (various references)

Chinese 

體內 , 國內 (civil, domestic), 內部 (inside, interior), 內置 (internally installed), 內在的 (inner), 內 (inner, inside, interior, within), 内部 (int, Interior, internally, intra, Intra-, inward). (various references)

Czech

interní (domestic), vnitropolitický (domestic), vnitřní (domestic, inland, inner, interior, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward, male), domácí (brownie, domestic, domiciliary, home, homegrown, homelike, homemade, home-made, indoor, inland, native, tame, vernacular). (various references)

Danish

indre (inner, inside). (various references)

Dutch

intern (inner, inside), binnenste (center, centre, inner, inside, interior), binnenlands (aboriginal, domestic, inner, inside). (various references)

Esperanto

interna (inner, inside). (various references)

Faeroese

insti (inner, inside), innan- (inner, inside). (various references)

Farsi 

ناشی ازدرون , داخلی (Esoteric, Indoor, Innate, Inner, Interior, Inward, Territorial), درونی (Esoteric, Indoor, Inmost, Innate, Inner, Innermost, Interior, Inward, Pectoral, Subjective), باطنی (Inmost, Inner, Intrinsic, Pectoral). (various references)

Finnish

sisäinen (inherent, inner, inside, interior, intrinsic, inward). (various references)

French

interne (inner, inside, intern). (various references)

German

intern (in-house, inner, inside, interior, internally, intra), innerlich (inner, inside, inward, inwardly, mentally). (various references)

Greek 

εσωτερικός (indoor, inner). (various references)

Hebrew 

תוכי (inner, interim, intestine, intrinsic, intrinsical, parrot, popinjay), פנימי (inner, interim, interior, intestine, intrinsic, intrinsical, inward). (various references)

Hungarian

belföldi (domestic, home, indigenous, inland, interior, intestine). (various references)

Indonesian

batiniah (spiritual), batin (arcane, hidden, inner, mental, mind, moral, secret), bagian dalam (interior). (various references)

Italian

interno (extension, home, indoor, in-house, inland, inner, inside, interior, intern, inward, iternal, lining, Midland, resident, residential). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

内部的 , 内部　 (inside, interior), 内部 (inside, interior), 内面的 (inner, inside), 内蔵 (involvement), 内在的 (immanent, intrinsic), 国内 (domestic), 対内 (domestic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいない (domestic, inside the body, interior of womb), ないぞう (internal organs, intestines, involvement, viscera), ないざいてき (immanent, intrinsic), ないぶてき, ないぶ (inside, interior), ないめんてき (inner, inside), こくない (domestic). (various references)

Korean 

내부 (int, inward). (various references)

Manx

sthie (in stock, indoors, inner, inside, interior, inwards, within). (various references)

Norwegian

innvendig (indoor, inside, interior, inwardly), indre (inner, inside, interior, intrinsic). (various references)

Papiamen

interno (inner, inside). (various references)

Pig Latin

internalay.(various references)

Portuguese

interno (colleger, in, indoor, in-house, inland, inmost, inner, inside). (various references)

Romanian

intim (close, cordial, familiar, friendly, heart-to-heart, hearty, home-felt, homelike, in, innermost, intimate, inward, mutual, near, private), intern (domestic, inland, inner, interior, internally, inward, resident), interior (dwelling, home, house, in, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, inward, Midland, midst), secret (arcanum, close, confidential, cover, covertly, hidden, hugger mugger, mysterious, mystery, occult, private, privy, quiet, reticence, secrecy, secret, secretly, ulterior, underground, undisclosed, unspoken, untold), lãuntric (inlying, inner, interior, inward, inwardly). (various references)

Russian 

внутренний (back-end, domestic, endo-, endogeneous, indoor, in-house, inland, inner, inner tube, innermost, inside, interum, intestine, intimate, intrinsical, mediterranean). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

interni, unutrašnji (inboard, indoor, inland, inner, inside, interior, intrinsic, inward). (various references)

Spanish

interno (boarder, extension, in-house, inner, inside, interior, intern, inward, resident), interior (domestic, home, inboard, indoor, inland, inner, innermost, inside, interior, inward, outback), interna (inner, inside). (various references)

Swedish

invärtes (inside, internally, inward, inwardly, visceral), inre (entrails, heart, inner, inside, interior, intrinsic, inward, inwards, Midland). (various references)

Turkish

içilir, iç (bowels, civil, core, domestic, endo-, guts, in, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, intestine, inward, refill, stuffing, within), yaradılış (being, build, constitution, creation, disposition, frame, idiosyncrasy, make up, Mold, mould, temperament), stajyer (intern, probationer, pupil, student, trainee), doğa (nature), dahili (indoor, inner). (various references)

Ukrainian

внутрішній (domestic, in, inboard, in-house, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, intern, intestinal, intestine, inward, routine, within), внутрішні органи, душевний (psychic, psychical). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ở trong (interior). (various references)

Welsh

tufewnol (interior, inward), mewnol (inward, subjective). (various references)

internorum, internus, intestina, intestina-us-um, intestinis, intestinus, intrinsecus, penitus. (various references)

intrinsecus, visceralis. (various references)

interne. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "internal": internalise, internalised, internalises, internalising, internalities, internality, internalization, internalizations, internalize, internalized, internalizes, internalizing, internally, internals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Internal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cisternal, enternal, Inderal, ineternal, intenral, Intera, interal, Intercal, intergal, interia, interial, intermale, interna, internall, internat, internl, internol, intirgal, Intorno, intregal. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: entrain, lantern, latrine, ratline, reliant, retinal, trenail.

-2 letters: aliner, antler, entail, inaner, innate, intern, lanner, larine, learnt, linear, linnet, linter, nailer, narine, ratine, ratlin, renail, rental, retail, retain, retial, retina, tailer, tanner, tenail, tineal, tinner, trinal.

-3 letters: alert, alien, aline, alter, anent, anile, antre, ariel, artel, elain, elint, entia, inane, inert, inlet, inner.

+1 letter: interclan, internals, triennial.

+2 letters: hinterland, interlunar, internally, internodal, interplant, interrenal, interzonal, intolerant, nonliteral, replanting, strandline, triennials.

+3 letters: alternating, alternation, antinuclear, antiwrinkle, banteringly, crenelation, crenulation, enthralling, franklinite, hinterlands, incremental, inferential, insertional, interannual, intercensal, interdental, interisland, interlacing, interlaying, interlinear, interlunary, internalise, internality, internalize, interplants, intolerance, inventorial, itinerantly, neurulation, nonintegral, nonliterary, nonliterate, nonmaterial, nonmetrical, nonrelative, nonterminal, outlearning, preplanting, realignment, reinflating, reinflation, strandlines, transalpine, transiently, triennially, uncertainly, unfaltering, uniparental, unprintable.