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Webster 1913 Edition


Inlet

In′let

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Noun.
1.
A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance;
especially,
a narrow waterway leading into a harbor.
Doors and windows,
inlets
of men and of light.
Sir H. Wotton.
2.
A bay or recess, as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.
3.
That which is let in or inlaid; an inserted material.
Inlet is also used adjectively, as in inlet pipe, inlet valve, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inlet

IN'LET

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Noun.
[in and let.] A passage or opening by which an inclosed place may be entered; place of ingress; entrance. Thus, a window is an inlet for light into a house; the senses are the inlets of ideas or perceptions into the mind.
1.
A bay or recess in the shore of the sea or of a lake or large river, or between isles.
In limine, [L.] at the threshold; at the beginning or outset.

Definition 2024


inlet

inlet

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Verb

inlet (third-person singular simple present inlets, present participle inletting, simple past and past participle inlet)

  1. (transitive) To let in; admit.
  2. (transitive) To insert; inlay.
    • 2012 December 17, “Archeologists Unearth Alien-Like Skulls In A Mexico Cemetery”, in RedOrbit, retrieved 2013-03-13:
      The team said that many of the bones unearthed were the remains of children, leading them to believe the practice of deforming skulls “may have been inlet and dangerous.”

Etymology 2

From Middle English inlāte (inlet, entrance), from inleten (to let in), equivalent to in- + let. Compare Low German inlat (inlet), German Einlass (inlet, entrance).

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Noun

inlet (plural inlets)

  1. A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
  2. A passage that leads into a cavity.
    • 1748. HUME, David. An enquiry concerning human understanding. In: L. A. SELBY-BIGGE, M. A. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 15.
      by opening this new inlet for sensations, you also open an inlet for the ideas;
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