'Internal' definitions:
Definition of 'internal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant: external]
adjective
Occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup squabbling within the corporation" [syn: internal, intragroup]
adjective
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]
adjective
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, interior, internal]
adjective
Definition of 'Internal'
From: GCIDE
- Internal \In*tern"al\, a. [L. internus; akin to interior. See Interior.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. [1913 Webster]
- With our Savior, internal purity is everything. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Intrinsic; inherent; real. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight of God. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Anat.) Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. [1913 Webster]
- Internal angle (Geom.), an interior angle. See under Interior.
- Internal gear (Mach.), a gear in which the teeth project inward from the rim instead of outward.
- Syn: Inner; interior; inward; inland; inside. [1913 Webster] Internal-combustion
Synonyms of 'internal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bosom,
- center,
- central,
- cerebral,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- core,
- deep,
- deep-seated,
- deepest recesses,
- endopsychic,
- esoteric,
- gut,
- heart,
- heart of hearts,
- home,
- immanent,
- implanted,
- implicit,
- inalienable,
- indoor,
- indwelling,
- infixed,
- ingrained,
- inherent,
- inland,
- inmost,
- inner,
- inner landscape,
- inner life,
- inner man,
- inner nature,
- inner recess,
- inner self,
- innermost,
- inside,
- intellectual,
- intelligent,
- interior,
- interior man,
- intern,
- intestine,
- intimate,
- intrados,
- intrinsic,
- inward,
- inwrought,
- irreducible,
- mental,
- municipal,
- national,
- native,
- noetic,
- noological,
- penetralia,
- phrenic,
- private,
- psychic,
- psychologic,
- rational,
- reasoning,
- recesses,
- resident,
- secret,
- secret place,
- secret places,
- soul,
- spiritual,
- subjective,
- thinking,
- unalienable,
- unchallengeable,
- unquestionable,
- visceral,
- vital center,
- vitals
Words containing 'Internal'
- Intern,
- Internality,
- Internally,
- International,
- Internationalism,
- Internationally,
- Interne,
- Internity,
- Internment,
- internalization,
- internalize,
- internationality,
- internic,
- Internal angle,
- Internal gear,
- Internal navigation,
- International Falls,
- International code,
- International copyright,
- International law,
- The internal sense,
- internal auditor,
- internal combustion,
- internal control,
- internal drive,
- internal ear,
- internal medicine,
- internal organ,
- internal representation,
- internal respiration,
- internal revenue,
- internal rhyme,
- internal secretion,
- international affairs,
- international ampere,
- international candle,
- international flight,
- international grandmaster,
- international jihad,
- international joule,
- international mile,
- international organisation,
- international organization,
- international pitch,
- international scale,
- international system,
- international terrorism,
- international waters,
- internment camp,
- medical intern,
- rotary international,
- systeme international,
- Internal-combustion,
- International Date Line,
- International Falls, MN,
- International Morse Code,
- Private international law,
- balance of international payments,
- collector of internal revenue,
- internal auditory artery,
- internal auditory vein,
- internal carotid artery,
- internal cerebral vein,
- internal iliac artery,
- internal iliac vein,
- internal jugular vein,
- internal maxillary artery,
- internal revenue agent,
- internal revenue service,
- internal spermatic artery,
- international court of justice,
- international development association,
- international finance corporation,
- international intelligence agency,
- international labor organization,
- international labour organization,
- international logistic support,
- international maritime organization,
- international monetary fund,
- international nautical mile,
- international system of units,
- international wanted notice,
- kennedy international airport,
- Internal-combustion engine,
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness,
- centre for international crime prevention,
- female internal reproductive organ,
- international association of lions clubs,
- international atomic energy agency,
- international bank for reconstruction and development,
- international civil aviation organization,
- international law enforcement agency,
- international relations and security network,
- male internal reproductive organ,
- systeme international d'unites,
- anti-imperialist international brigade,
- Le Systeme International de Unit'es,
- international islamic front for jihad against jews and crusaders,
- united nations international children's emergency fund,
- four-stroke internal-combustion engine