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INLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inland mean? 

INLAND (adjective)
  The adjective INLAND has 1 sense:

1. situated away from an area's coast or borderplay

  Familiarity information: INLAND used as an adjective is very rare.


INLAND (adverb)
  The adverb INLAND has 1 sense:

1. towards or into the interior of a regionplay

  Familiarity information: INLAND used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INLAND (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Situated away from an area's coast or border

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)


INLAND (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Towards or into the interior of a region

Context example:

the town is five miles inland


 Context examples 


On the fourth day I found the trail—a mere foot-trail. It led inland, and it led up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I ask you to picture the shaded sitting-room of the Fazenda St. Ignatio, two miles inland from the town of Manaos.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I had thought, sir, that it was inland,” said my father.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Always he was on the lookout for the trail of the gods where it might leave the river and proceed inland.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"It is vital to understand the causes of ice-shelf instability because ice shelves buttress against the discharge of inland ice and therefore influence ice-sheet contributions to sea level rise."

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

As grounded ice retreats inland, the bedrock under it lifts up elastically.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

Its three major tributary glaciers are fed by their own tributaries farther inland.

(Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act, NASA)

This is the second highest number of disasters experienced in one year, with double the record number of inland flooding events for one year.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

Many canyons are well below sea level as far as 60 miles (100 kilometers) inland.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

When this happens, the grounding line retreats inland.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)



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