inside

The inside of the building has been extensively restored.

Looked he o' the inside of the paper?

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

On a motorway, you should never pass another vehicle on the inside.

The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.

The car in front drifted wide on the bend, so I darted up the inside to take the lead.

The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.

Eating that stuff will damage your insides.

(colloquial, in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides.

1798, John Hookham Frere, George Canning, The Loves of the Triangles:

So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

(dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.

Anyone got the inside on the new ratings? The book is out.

2000, Jean Forray, The View from the Bottom, page 58:

(slang) The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.

primer carril

side of a road that is farthest from the middle of the road

interior

From Middle English ynneside; equivalent to in- + side.
Compare German Innenseite (“inside”), Danish inderside (“inside”), Swedish insida (“inside”), Dutch binnenzijde (“inside”), German Low German Binnensied, Binnersied (“inside”), Saterland Frisian Binnersiede (“inside”).


inside

The inside surface of the cup is unpainted.

Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.

Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.

All the window seats were occupied, so she took an inside seat.

As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.

2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 731:

Nearer to the interior or centre of something.

The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.

The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.

They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.

“They have an inside man at the base, so I didn't want to alert him. If their inside man called Mr. C about us locating the C-4, I doubt you and Gail would still be alive.”

2011, G. M. Lucas, An Unsung Quartet, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 210:

Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.

But the terms normally used to distinguish a man's resident and absent children are "inside" and "outside," the reference being to the home where the common father dwells. Only rarely will a man describe his "inside" children born out of out of wedlock as "lawful," [...]

1974, Michael Garfield Smith, The Plural Society in the British West Indies, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 235:

An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]

2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 158:

[The person] who was going to visit her with his wife had a physical resemblance to the abuser, so some of her inside children had a strong reaction of fear and revulsion to him. They were afraid to look at the face of the guest in case he was the abuser.

2014, Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse, Karnac Books, →ISBN, page 185:

(of a person) Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.

The first pitch is ... just a bit inside.

(baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.

the inside lane of the motorway

At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.

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of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary

interior

nearer to the interior or centre of something

interior

originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation


inside

It started raining, so I went inside.

The secretive residents of the massive city-ship tended to stay inside.

Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.

He spent ten years inside, doing a stretch for burglary.

It was snowing, so the children stayed inside.

Are you laughing at us inside?

Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.


inside

He placed the letter inside the envelope.

Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.

The job was finished inside two weeks.

Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

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within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference

the call is coming from inside the house