inlet
pronunciation
How to pronounce inlet in British English:
UK [ˈɪnlet]
How to pronounce inlet in American English:
US [ˈɪnlet]
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- Noun:
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Word Origin
- inlet (n.)
- 1570s, "narrow opening into a coast, arm of the sea," a special use of Middle English inleten "to let in" (c. 1300), from in + let (v.). In this sense said by old sources to be originally a Kentish term.
Example
- 1. Make the outlet openings larger than the inlet opening , it increases the draft .
- 2. So huge is baikal that it reportedly takes an average of 330 years for a single water molecule to flow through it , from inlet to outlet .
- 3. This sort of epiphany waits in almost every bay and inlet of south georgia .
- 4. He first meet her in a small village on an inlet of the sea .
- 5. A large inlet of the coral sea on the southeast coast of new guinea .