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INDOORS
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Within a building
Example:
in winter we play inside
Synonyms:
indoors; inside
Classified under:
Antonym:
outdoors (outside a building)
Context examples:
Molds are fungi that can be found both outdoors and indoors.
(Molds, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Initial testing was conducted using citrus seedlings. (As Monte pointed out, Brazil is the leading global seedling producer, and these seedlings are grown indoors, in contamination-free environments).
(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)
Mr. Trevor mumbled something to us about having been shipmate with the man when he was going back to the diggings, and then, leaving us on the lawn, he went indoors.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was just the plan to suit Fanny; and with a great deal of gratitude on her side for such ready and kind attention, they proceeded indoors, and upstairs, and were soon deep in the interesting subject.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Indoors we agreed equally well.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the best of training.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The best way to prevent the disease is to protect yourself from sand fly bites: • Stay indoors from dusk to dawn, when sand flies are the most active • Wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts when outside • Use insect repellent and bed nets as needed
(Leishmaniasis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Current mainstay methods for Anopheles control target mosquitoes resting or biting indoors and rely on synthetic chemical insecticides.
(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)
It was boisterous October weather, and we had both remained indoors all day, I because I feared with my shaken health to face the keen autumn wind, while he was deep in some of those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
