inlet
English Thesaurus
1. an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | opening, |
| definition | : | a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | air horn, |
| definition | : | air intake of a carburetor (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | siamese, siamese connection, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.artifact) |
2. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | body of water, water, |
| definition | : | the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | cove, |
| definition | : | a small inlet (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | fiord, fjord, |
| definition | : | a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | loch, |
| definition | : | a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | bristol channel, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | white sea, |
| definition | : | a large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | zuider zee, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | lake, |
| definition | : | a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | sea, |
| definition | : | a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land (noun.object) |
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