INTERNAL


Meaning of INTERNAL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪntɜ:(r)n(ə)l ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Internal is used to describe things that exist or happen inside a country or organization.

The country stepped up internal security...

We now have a Europe without internal borders...

ADJ : ADJ n

• in‧ter‧nal‧ly

The state is not a unified and internally coherent entity.

ADV

2.

Internal is used to describe things that exist or happen inside a particular person, object, or place.

...massive internal bleeding...

Some of the internal walls of my house are made of plasterboard.

ADJ : ADJ n

• in‧ter‧nal‧ly

Evening primrose oil is used on the skin as well as taken internally...

ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV with cl , ADV adj

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