in·te·ri·or /ɪnˈtɪriɚ/
 (a.)內的,內部的;內地的;國內的;內心的內地;內心,內在性質


 in·te·ri·or /ɪnˈtɪrɪɚ/ 形容詞
 內部,裡面,內部的,內景


 interior
 *內 內部


 In·te·ri·or a.
 1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.
 Interior angle Geom., an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle.
 Interior planets Astron., those planets within the orbit of the earth.
 Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.
 Syn: -- Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.


 In·te·ri·or, n.
 1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
 2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
 Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
 Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.

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 interior
      adj 1: situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an
             interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior
             bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior]
      2: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader
         responsibilities than the United States Department of the
         Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a),
          interior(a), internal, national]
      3: 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. [syn: inner,
          internal]
      4: inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
      5: of or coming from the middle of a region or country;
         "upcountry districts" [syn: midland, upcountry]
      n 1: the region that is inside of something [syn: inside] [ant:
            outside]
      2: the inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside]
         [ant: outside]
      3: the United States federal department charged with
         conservation and the development of natural resources;
         created in 1849 [syn: Department of the Interior, {Interior
         Department, DoI]