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词汇 inward
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Definition of inward in English:

inward

adjective ˈɪnwədˈɪnwərd
  • 1attributive Directed or proceeding towards the inside; coming in from outside.

    向里边的,向内的;由外向里的

    inward mail

    收邮。

    a graceful inward movement of her wrist

    她手腕向内转动的优雅动作。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The houses of well-to-do Mexicans have been inward looking, towards a patio, since colonial times.
    • Voice is the sound produced by the inward movement of vocal cords when the air from lungs passes through and brings the vocal cords together.
    • To the lay reader, may I repeat the Government's basic proposal, which is to stop any stock moving off a farm for a 20-day period following an inward movement onto the farm.
    • Manufacturing a swamped barrel involves tapering it inward towards the center point and flaring the muzzle and breech ends outward for balance.
    • Researchers at the Koestler Unit think that vision may involve a two-way process, an inward movement of light and an outward projection of mental images.
    • The required interval between inward and outward movements in a herd has been reduced from twenty days to seven days.
    • She turned her face inward towards his shirt, breathing in deeply, then exhaling, her breath tickling his chest through the material.
    • It is a common fault for a swimmer to start turning the head for the inward breath before the forward hand has entered the water.
    • Rims of individual leaf bases oxidize first, with the oxidation front proceeding inward or across the leaf base.
    • The ‘solidification front’ then proceeded inward as the basalt continued cooling.
    • You can feel it, like a thunderstorm just off the edge of the horizon, when the leaves on the trees curl inward and the air feels charged and the hair stands up on your arm.
    • Orthotic devices also help reduce over-pronation, which occurs when the arch slopes inward, causing the outside of the heel to keel instead of remaining flat.
    • Evidently Stickel did not consider the possibility that a plumber might have dug inward from outside the building and down just enough to repair malfunctioning plumbing.
    • Specifically, the normally green stems began to discolor (turn brown) from the outside of the tree inward.
    • It turned with a click, and the door swung inward to allow them inside.
    • A large amount of matter, left over from a supernova explosion spiraling inward towards an invisible black center.
    • It is best planted with the root ball on a slight inward angle towards your object being covered, at the same height as was potted.
    • These molecules have their headgroup regions pointing outward into the solvent and the carbon chain directed inward toward each other.
    • If the singer takes a good breath and exhales on an ‘f’ sound he or she will feel the gradual upward and inward movement balanced by internal pressures.
    • The best way to utilize the platforms would be to Fold the fleet into the enemy's path outside them, moving inward, with the platforms just out of range.
    Synonyms
    towards the inside, going in, ingoing
    concave
    1. 1.1 Existing within the mind, soul, or spirit, and often not expressed.
      内心的,精神的,灵魂中的
      she felt an inward sense of release

      她内心感到一种解脱。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Protagoras, Parmenides, Democritus and Socrates looked inward to the human mind and there discovered logos, Human Reason.
      • We'll look at all of these as we journey inward to our soul, outward to our world, and together into our community.
      • We might also remark upon his buoyancy, an inward easiness of spirit.
      • God's Kingdom wasn't a state of mind, or a sense of inward peace.
      • His mind turned briefly inward, prodding gently at its privacy shield.
      • He began to look inward to his soul and he discovered that he could no longer reconcile his life in the material world and his quest for higher spiritual truth.
      • The Ancient ones slowly became bored of our land and slowly faded away, becoming more inward and secretive, within years they were all but legend.
      • She leaned back a bit and closed her eyes, shutting out the world and turning her mind inward…
      • Pratyaahaar means withdrawal of senses from their objects and turning the mind inward.
      • To many what most mattered was the inward purification of the soul; sacrifices, images, and external ceremonies of any kind were a distraction, at best symbols.
      • The spiral turns inward, twisting the soul of society into an alienated artificiality.
      • It was as if the outward fear and trembling inherent in the century of mass death had taken inward hold within James's own family.
      • The Spirit himself endorses our inward conviction that we really are the children of God.
      • For they are the inward actions of the mind in the spirits of the braine, whilest the bodie is occupied with sleepe: for as touching the mind it selfe, it never sleepeth.
      • It's a place where the eye and the spirit turns inward.
      • His mind was still fixed inward, on the self he so loathed.
      • The image of Saint Ambrose elevates the worshiper's mind to an inward vision through his intensity of concentration.
      • Is it not time they stopped looking outward with an open purse and started looking inward with an open mind?
      Synonyms
      internal, inner, interior, inside, innermost
      private, personal, hidden, secret, veiled, masked, concealed, unexpressed, unrevealed
      intimate, confidential
      informal bottled up
      archaic privy
adverb ˈɪnwədˈɪnwərd
  • variant of inwards
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As soon as the horse begins to turn, which should happen inward toward the center and you, and as his flanks are in front of you, you drive them as before by stepping in towards them.
    • Do not roll your knees inward, toward each other.
    • With no further warning, Valdaer swung his blades inward, toward the jar in front of him.
    • Thirty degree medial rotation may be seen by rolling the arm inward and turning the palm toward the body.
    Synonyms
    inside, towards the inside, into the interior, within
    inwards, inside, towards the inside, into the interior, within

Origin

Old English inweard, inneweard, innanweard (see in, -ward).

Definition of inward in US English:

inward

adjectiveˈinwərdˈɪnwərd
  • 1attributive Directed or proceeding toward the inside; coming in from outside.

    向里边的,向内的;由外向里的

    a graceful inward movement of her wrist

    她手腕向内转动的优雅动作。

    the inward rush of air
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Researchers at the Koestler Unit think that vision may involve a two-way process, an inward movement of light and an outward projection of mental images.
    • You can feel it, like a thunderstorm just off the edge of the horizon, when the leaves on the trees curl inward and the air feels charged and the hair stands up on your arm.
    • A large amount of matter, left over from a supernova explosion spiraling inward towards an invisible black center.
    • To the lay reader, may I repeat the Government's basic proposal, which is to stop any stock moving off a farm for a 20-day period following an inward movement onto the farm.
    • The required interval between inward and outward movements in a herd has been reduced from twenty days to seven days.
    • If the singer takes a good breath and exhales on an ‘f’ sound he or she will feel the gradual upward and inward movement balanced by internal pressures.
    • The best way to utilize the platforms would be to Fold the fleet into the enemy's path outside them, moving inward, with the platforms just out of range.
    • The ‘solidification front’ then proceeded inward as the basalt continued cooling.
    • Specifically, the normally green stems began to discolor (turn brown) from the outside of the tree inward.
    • Evidently Stickel did not consider the possibility that a plumber might have dug inward from outside the building and down just enough to repair malfunctioning plumbing.
    • Manufacturing a swamped barrel involves tapering it inward towards the center point and flaring the muzzle and breech ends outward for balance.
    • These molecules have their headgroup regions pointing outward into the solvent and the carbon chain directed inward toward each other.
    • The houses of well-to-do Mexicans have been inward looking, towards a patio, since colonial times.
    • It is a common fault for a swimmer to start turning the head for the inward breath before the forward hand has entered the water.
    • It turned with a click, and the door swung inward to allow them inside.
    • Voice is the sound produced by the inward movement of vocal cords when the air from lungs passes through and brings the vocal cords together.
    • Orthotic devices also help reduce over-pronation, which occurs when the arch slopes inward, causing the outside of the heel to keel instead of remaining flat.
    • Rims of individual leaf bases oxidize first, with the oxidation front proceeding inward or across the leaf base.
    • It is best planted with the root ball on a slight inward angle towards your object being covered, at the same height as was potted.
    • She turned her face inward towards his shirt, breathing in deeply, then exhaling, her breath tickling his chest through the material.
    Synonyms
    towards the inside, going in, ingoing
    1. 1.1 Existing within the mind, soul, or spirit, and often not expressed.
      内心的,精神的,灵魂中的
      she felt an inward sense of release

      她内心感到一种解脱。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Spirit himself endorses our inward conviction that we really are the children of God.
      • God's Kingdom wasn't a state of mind, or a sense of inward peace.
      • His mind was still fixed inward, on the self he so loathed.
      • It was as if the outward fear and trembling inherent in the century of mass death had taken inward hold within James's own family.
      • Protagoras, Parmenides, Democritus and Socrates looked inward to the human mind and there discovered logos, Human Reason.
      • For they are the inward actions of the mind in the spirits of the braine, whilest the bodie is occupied with sleepe: for as touching the mind it selfe, it never sleepeth.
      • His mind turned briefly inward, prodding gently at its privacy shield.
      • Is it not time they stopped looking outward with an open purse and started looking inward with an open mind?
      • Pratyaahaar means withdrawal of senses from their objects and turning the mind inward.
      • We'll look at all of these as we journey inward to our soul, outward to our world, and together into our community.
      • The image of Saint Ambrose elevates the worshiper's mind to an inward vision through his intensity of concentration.
      • She leaned back a bit and closed her eyes, shutting out the world and turning her mind inward…
      • The Ancient ones slowly became bored of our land and slowly faded away, becoming more inward and secretive, within years they were all but legend.
      • To many what most mattered was the inward purification of the soul; sacrifices, images, and external ceremonies of any kind were a distraction, at best symbols.
      • The spiral turns inward, twisting the soul of society into an alienated artificiality.
      • We might also remark upon his buoyancy, an inward easiness of spirit.
      • He began to look inward to his soul and he discovered that he could no longer reconcile his life in the material world and his quest for higher spiritual truth.
      • It's a place where the eye and the spirit turns inward.
      Synonyms
      internal, inner, interior, inside, innermost
adverbˈinwərdˈɪnwərd
  • 1Toward the inside.

    the door began to swing inward
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thirty degree medial rotation may be seen by rolling the arm inward and turning the palm toward the body.
    • With no further warning, Valdaer swung his blades inward, toward the jar in front of him.
    • As soon as the horse begins to turn, which should happen inward toward the center and you, and as his flanks are in front of you, you drive them as before by stepping in towards them.
    • Do not roll your knees inward, toward each other.
    Synonyms
    inside, towards the inside, into the interior, within
    inwards, inside, towards the inside, into the interior, within
    1. 1.1 Into or toward the mind, spirit, or soul.
      people must look inward to gain insight into their own stress
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Once we become bereft of God, spirituality becomes privatized, shunts inward, molts off the social, longs for private rather than profound truths.
      • This is a night of turning inward and seeking guidance for the spiritual journey ahead that the long winter will bring.
      • Their eyes could only look inward at the torn fabric of souls once made whole by a holy presence that sought and wanted them.
      • The efforts of the early reformers aimed to focus worshipers' eyes inward to the soul and tune their ears to words of Scripture read and gospel preached.
      Synonyms
      inside, towards the inside, into the interior, within

Origin

Old English inweard, inneweard, innanweard (see in, -ward).

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