inner
['inә]
a. ,

n.

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inner
[ adj ]

1. located or occurring within or closer to a center

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an inner room

2. located inward

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Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle
she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it
an internal sense of rightousness

3. innermost or essential

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the inner logic of Cubism
the internal contradictions of the theory
the intimate structure of matter

4. confined to an exclusive group

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privy to inner knowledge
inside information
privileged information

5. exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence

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inner regions of the organization
inner circles of government

6. inside or closer to the inside of the body

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the inner ear

Inner \In"ner\ ([i^]n"n[~e]r), a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr.
inne within, fr. in in. See {In}.]
1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner
chamber.

2. Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena.

This attracts the soul,
Governs the inner man, the nobler part. --Milton.

3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.

{Inner house} (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the
court of Session at Edinburgh; also, the place of their
sittings.

{Inner jib} (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay
running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom.

{Inner plate} (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to
the center of the roof, in a double-plated roof.

{Inner post} (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of
the main post, to support the transoms.

{Inner square} (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges
of a carpenter's square.