inlet

«inlet» in Mova's school dictionary: a narrow area of sea or lake water that goes into the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an inlet, inlets)

meaning for a pupil

1) An inlet is a narrow area of sea or lake water that goes into the land, like a small bay. tree →

2) An inlet is an opening through which water, air or fuel goes in to a machine or pipe. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons on coasts, an inlet is a coastal feature, like a bay, cove or fjord. In science and technology, an inlet pipe or valve lets something in and an outlet lets it out; this matters in maths problems with filling tanks. Phrases: a narrow inlet, air inlet, water inlet.

examples

• The boat sailed into a quiet inlet. tree →
• We swam in a sheltered inlet where the water was calm. tree →
• Seals rested on the rocks at the end of the inlet. tree →
• Water flows in through the inlet pipe and out through the outlet. tree →
• Do not block the air inlet on the heater. tree →
• A fjord is a long, deep inlet between mountains. tree →

note

Countable: inlets («an» before the vowel). Opposite of an inlet pipe: outlet. In tank problems, the inlet adds water and the outlet takes it away: rate of filling = inlet rate minus outlet rate.

In the corpora

• Ice is thinner near moving water, such as streams, inlets and under bridges.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inlet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.