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INLAND
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated away from an area's coast or border
Classified under:
Similar:
interior; midland; upcountry (of or coming from the middle of a region or country)
landlocked (surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land)
Antonym:
coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Towards or into the interior of a region
Example:
the town is five miles inland
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Context examples:
The team also found evidence that brines flow towards the Antarctic coast from roughly 18 kilometers (11 miles) inland, eventually discharging into the Southern Ocean, a biologically rich body of water that encircles Antarctica.
(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)
The sea is tumbling in over the shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, muffled in the sea-mists drifting inland.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Most of these water harvesting sites are along the coast but a few are inland—and so are the ahu.
(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)
The Antarctic glaciers studied by Rignot's group have thinned so much they are now floating above places where they used to sit solidly on land, which means their grounding lines are retreating inland.
(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)
About a mile inland.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This meant that either the impact happened more than 79,000 years ago or — if it took place more recently — any impact-disturbed ice had long ago flowed out of the area and been replaced by ice from farther inland.
(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
“It just comes to me,” she said, “that Captain Larsen was telling me how the men raided the rookeries. They drive the seals, in small herds, a short distance inland before they kill them.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Seroussi and Ivins' simulations using a heat flow higher than 150 milliwatts per square meter showed too much melting to be compatible with the space-based data, except in one location: an area inland of the Ross Sea known for intense flows of water.
(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)
Over the gently rising plain curved the white road which leads inland, usually flecked with travellers, but now with scarce a living form upon it, so completely had the lists drained all the district of its inhabitants.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The edge of the plateau has fewer large trees than further inland.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
