interior : Idioms & Phrases


Department of the Interior

  • noun the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
    Interior; Department of the Interior; DoI.
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  • that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
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Interior angle

  • noun the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon
    internal angle.
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  • (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; called also internal angle.
Webster 1913

interior decoration

  • noun decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior
    decor.
  • noun the trade of planning the layout and furnishings of an architectural interior
    interior decoration.
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interior decorator

  • noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
    interior decorator; house decorator; designer; room decorator; decorator.
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interior department

  • noun the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
    Interior; Department of the Interior; DoI.
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interior design

  • noun the trade of planning the layout and furnishings of an architectural interior
    interior decoration.
  • noun the branch of architecture dealing with the selection and organization of furnishings for an architectural interior
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interior designer

  • noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
    interior decorator; house decorator; designer; room decorator; decorator.
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interior door

  • noun a door that closes off rooms within a building
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interior live oak

  • noun a small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast; an important part of the chaparral
    Quercus wislizenii; Quercus wizlizenii.
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interior monologue

  • noun a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
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Interior planets

  • (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth.
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Interior screw

  • a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.
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interior secretary

  • noun the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department
    Interior Secretary.
    • President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior
  • noun the position of the head of the Department of the Interior
    Interior Secretary.
    • the position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849
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Secretary of the Interior

  • noun the position of the head of the Department of the Interior
    Interior Secretary.
    • the position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849
  • noun the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department
    Interior Secretary.
    • President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior
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  • the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
Webster 1913

zone of interior

  • noun the part of the theater of war not included in the theater of operations
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