exterioradjective
[ S ]
the land that is furthest away from the outside or coast of a country or continent: 内地，腹地
the African interior非洲腹地
 the interior
in some countries, the government department that deals with subjects and events that are important in the country itself instead of events in other countries: （某些国家的）内政部
the Ministry of the Interior内政部
officials of the US Interior Department美国内政部官员
The interior is spare, almost minimalist.内部是简朴的，几乎是最简单的。
The church has an ornate black and white marbled interior.教堂内部拥有华丽的黑白大理石花纹装饰。
The interior was extensively damaged in the fire.
Grassland covers almost all of the country's interior.
Cattle ranches occupy most of the country's interior.

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Centres of objects
at the core of something
bowel
central
centrality
centrally
core
hub
inner ring
innermost
interiority
interiorly
internal
median
medianly
mesad
mesial
mesially
mid
off-centre
the bowels of somethingidiom

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interior
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ɪnˈtɪə.ri.ər/ us /ɪnˈtɪr.i.ɚ/
inside: 内部的
The interior walls have patches of damp on them.内墙上有片片湿斑。
The paintwork on the interior doors (= those not in the outside wall of a building) is in good condition.室内门上的漆面保持完好。
relating to the government department in some countries that deals with subjects and events that are important in that country instead of events in other countries: （政府）内政的;内务的
France's interior minister法国内政部长
The interior walls are painted white.
The interior walls of the house are thinner than the heavy exterior walls.
The interior angles of a square are right angles or angles of 90 degrees.正方形的内角是直角，即90度角。
Virginia Woolf experimented with interior narration.
The original interior doors have been replaced.

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In & at
depth
en-
endogenous
from withinidiom
hereunder
in
indoor
indoors
inner
inner circle
innermost
inside
intra-
inward
midst
on a dimeidiom
there
therein
thick
track

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interior | American Dictionary

interior
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪnˈtɪər·i·ər/
inner; on or from the inside:
The interior surface of the seashell was smooth.
interior
noun[ C/U ]
us/ɪnˈtɪər·i·ər/
the inside part of something:
[ U ]a car’s interior

Examples of interior

interior
The machined parts have their interiors polished and are bonded together.
The notions of boundaries, interiors, and exteriors were dropped and the notion of object and space components is used instead.
The grey exteriors and the colourful interiors are really a sort of protection against the obsessively logical view that inside and outside should agree.
The interiors of structures above the plazas were the setting for private rituals where the ruler interacted with deities and ancestors, creating power through ritual.
Victorian speech patterns, attitudes and topics of conversation, costumes and interiors - all are exceptionally wellrealized.
The predicted values of elevated temperature are not as extreme in the grain interiors as might be imagined.
The building has a memorable form and its interiors are well suited to the needs of a museum.
The core of the platform contained a number of compar tments faced on their interiors.
Restricted access to the interiors of monuments is argued to have maintained interpersonal differences.
We can extend this map to the edges of the triangles and their interiors linearly.
In some places, the interiors of amphibolites and mafic granulites preserve a relict igneous gabbroic/doleritic texture.
The situation could be described as an interaction between different interiors.
Doors permit passage to the inside, vitalising the building with living bodies; windows light interiors and enable views.
The view dominates them, drawing attention from the interiors.
In three recent houses, the expansiveness of the structures has increased and the landscape has become more integrated with the interiors, physically and visually.
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Collocations withinterior

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domestic interior
Rice argues that the concept of the domesticinterior emerged during the early nineteenth century.
hollow interior
And for the first time, a royal sarcophagus contains inscriptions, here slightly etched on the hollow interior of the vessel.
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