Inside

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Preposition, Adverb
• HYPHEN: in=side

CIDE DICTIONARY

Inside, prep. 

 Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.  [1913 Webster]

Inside, a. 

•  Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.  [1913 Webster]

  "Kissing with inside lip."  [1913 Webster]
•  Adapted to the interior.  [1913 Webster]

Inside callipers (Mech.), callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc. -- Inside finish (Arch.), a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering. -- Inside track, the inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, contacts, etc., in competition.

Inside, n. 

•  The part within; interior or internal portion; content.  [1913 Webster]

  "Looked he o' the inside of the paper?"  [1913 Webster]
•  The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.  [1913 Webster]

  "Here's none but friends; we may speak
  Our insides freely."  [1913 Webster]
•  An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.  [1913 Webster]

  "So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides
  The Derby dilly, carrying three insides."  [1913 Webster]

Patent insides or Patent outsides, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Inside, n., adj., adv., & prep.
--n.
1 a the inner side or surface of a thing. b the inner part; the interior.
2 a (of a path) the side next to the wall or away from the road. b (of a double-decker bus) the lower section.
3 (usu. in pl.) colloq. the stomach and bowels (something wrong with my insides).
4 colloq. a position affording inside information (knows someone on the inside).
--adj.
1 situated on or in, or derived from, the inside.
2 Football & Hockey nearer to the centre of the field (inside forward; inside left; inside right).
--adv.
1 on, in, or to the inside.
2 sl. in prison.
--prep.
1 on the inner side of; within (inside the house).
2 in less than (inside an hour).

Idiom

inside country Austral. settled areas near the coast. inside information information not accessible to outsiders. inside job colloq. a crime committed by a person living or working on the premises burgled etc. inside of colloq.
1 in less than (a week etc.).
2 Brit. the middle part of. inside out with the inner surface turned outwards.
inside track
1 the track which is shorter, because of the curve.
2 a position of advantage. know a thing inside out know a thing thoroughly.
turn inside out
1 turn the inner surface outwards.
2 colloq. cause confusion or a mess in.

Etymology

IN + SIDE

THESAURUS

Inside

advantaged, advantageous, arranged, at, at bottom, auricular, backing, backwards, basically, between us, bosom, bowels, breast, by nature, center, center of life, central, clandestine, closet, confidential, contents, core, deep, deepest recesses, entrails, esoteric, esoteric reality, everted, exclusive, favorable, favored, fundamentally, guts, heart, heart of hearts, herein, hushed, imprisoned, in, in petto, in prison, incarcerated, indoor, inmost, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost, inside of, inside out, insides, interior, interior man, intern, internal, internals, intestine, intimate, into, intrados, intrinsic, inward, inwards, lining, middle, nerve center, not for publication, off the record, penetralia, prearranged, preferential, preferred, private, privileged, privy, propitious, quick, recesses, reversed, sealed, secret, secret heart, secret place, secret places, soul, spirit, stomach, stuffing, therein, tripes, true being, true inwardness, under privilege, unpublishable, viscera, vital center, vital principle, vitals, within, withindoors

ROGET THESAURUS

Inside

Contents

N contents, cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag, cartload, shipload, cup of, basket of, of, inside, stuffing, ullage.

Interiority

N interiority, inside, interior, interspace, subsoil, substratum, intrados, contents, substance, pith, marrow, backbone, heart, bosom, breast, abdomen, vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap, penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses, cave, interior, internal, inner, inside, inward, intraregarding, inmost, innermost, deep seated, gut, intestine, intestinal, inland, subcutaneous, abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic, interstitial, inwrought, inclosed, home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular, endemic, internally, inwards, within, in, inly, here in, there in, where in, ab intra, withinside, in doors, within doors, at home, in the bosom of one's family, interiority, inside, interior, interspace, subsoil, substratum, intrados, contents, substance, pith, marrow, backbone, heart, bosom, breast, abdomen, vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap, penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses, cave, interior, internal, inner, inside, inward, intraregarding, inmost, innermost, deep seated, gut, intestine, intestinal, inland, subcutaneous, abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic, interstitial, inwrought, inclosed, home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular, endemic, internally, inwards, within, in, inly, here in, there in, where in, ab intra, withinside, in doors, within doors, at home, in the bosom of one's family.