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INLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
Synonyms:
inlet; intake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("inlet" is a kind of...):
opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inlet"):
air horn (air intake of a carburetor)
siamese; siamese connection (an inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Synonyms:
inlet; recess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("inlet" is a kind of...):
body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inlet"):
cove (a small inlet)
fiord; fjord (a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway)
loch (a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked))
Instance hyponyms:
Bristol Channel (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England)
Gulf of Aegina; Saronic Gulf (a gulf of the Aegean on the southeastern coast of Greece)
White Sea (a large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia)
Zuider Zee (a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer)
Holonyms ("inlet" is a part of...):
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
