inward
对内,向内,向外,外来
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Definitions
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Also inwards.
- : toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- : into or toward the mind or soul: He turned his thoughts inward.
- : Obsolete. on the inside or interior.in the mind or soul; mentally or spiritually.
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- : proceeding or directed toward the inside or interior.
- : situated within or in or on the inside; inner; internal: an inward room.
- : pertaining to the inside or inner part.
- : located within the body: the inward parts.
- : pertaining to the inside of the body: inward convulsions.
- : inland: inward passage.
- : mental or spiritual; inner: inward peace.
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Examples
This light drag basically slows down dust particles, and if you slow an object down in its orbit, it’s got to move inward, so the dust slowly spirals in toward the sun.
Away from the center, the inward pull of gravity is weaker, and there’s less inward-falling matter to temper the shock wave.
This inward work has led to a lot of fundamental improvements for operators.
It was all about pronation, ensuring that your shoe enabled your foot to roll inward by just the right amount with each stride.
Jupiter and Saturn together migrate outward instead of inward.
Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
The brash, engaged, occasionally self-centered ex-lawmaker seemed to retreat inward and practically disappear.
Meanwhile, the rest of hull is wide at the waterline and slopes inward.
America is a narcissistic and inward-looking society at the best of the times.
Nonetheless, that “inward sweetness” awakened the future preacher to a rather uncommon youthful aptitude for holiness.
He makes a spiritual form of it so perfectly visible to your inward eye, that it seems as if you could almost hear it breathe!