internal
(adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; “internal organs”; “internal mechanism of a toy”; “internal party maneuvering”
inner, interior, internal
(adjective) located inward; “Beethoven’s manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle”- Leonard Bernstein; “she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it”- David Denby; “an internal sense of rightousness”- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
interior, home(a), internal, national
(adjective) inside the country; “the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”; “the nation’s internal politics”
internal, intragroup
(adjective) occurring within an institution or community; “intragroup squabbling within the corporation”
inner, internal, intimate
(adjective) innermost or essential; “the inner logic of Cubism”; “the internal contradictions of the theory”; “the intimate structure of matter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
internal (comparative more internal, superlative most internal)
inside of something
within the body
concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation
• inner
• inly
• interior
• intern, interne
• external
• exterior
Source: Wiktionary
In*tern"al, a. Etym: [L. internus; akin to interior. See Interior.]
1. Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.
2. Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.
3. Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.
4. Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. With our Savior, internal purity is everything. Paley.
5. Intrinsic; inherent; real. [R.] The internal rectitude of our actions in the sight of God. Rogers.
6. (Anat.)
Definition: Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. Internal angle (Geom.), an interior angle. See under Interior.
– Internal gear (Mach.), a gear in which the teeth project inward from the rim instead of outward.
Syn.
– Inner; interior; inward; inland; inside.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 June 2025
(noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
