Main entry: internal
Definition: happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
Usage: internal organs; internal mechanism of a toy; internal party maneuvering
Main entry: inner, interior, internal
Definition: located inward
Usage: 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.
Main entry: interior, internal, home, national
Definition: inside the country
Usage: the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior; the nation's internal politics
Main entry: intragroup, internal
Definition: occurring within an institution or community
Usage: intragroup squabbling within the corporation
Main entry: inner, internal, intimate
Definition: innermost or essential
Usage: the inner logic of Cubism; the internal contradictions of the theory; the intimate structure of matter