Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Internal bodily organs; viscera.
- n. Informal The inner parts, as of a machine.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of innard.
- n. The internal organs of a human or animal; especially viscera, intestines.
- n. The inner workings of something; the insides or guts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The internal organs of an animal collectively especially those in the abdominal cavity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)
Etymologies
- alteration of inwards (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of inwards, pl. of inward. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At about 7 or 8 a.m. the previously prepared produce, with select innards, is placed on the scorching stones in an oversized cast aluminum casserole with water, over which is placed an iron grate sufficiently forged to hold the weight of the quartered meat, including head and organs … either plain, or enchilada.”
“From the looks of this teardown, the bulk of iPhone's slender innards is the battery.”
“This protects its innards from the weather and makes for an unusually reliable gun.”
“This cover is in good to very good condition, but the innards are a creamy white.”
“I forget where I read this, but there was an article that stated many thin people have a lot of invisible fat around their innards, which is very unhealthy.”
“Furthermore, I had a sort of secret yen for a machine with metal innards, which is pretty much impossible to find in a home-use machine these days.”
“You imagine that your innards are a-gittin 'all askew,”
“The innards are the same as the iBox, with your choice between two 25 watt amplifier or a "heavy duty" 70 watts.”
“It would be harsh to call the innards of the Panasonic V20 and V25 TVs inadequate but unlike”
“Oh, if only someday I could see "innards" used in a Heritage auction.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘innards’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 107 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
irenic, inimical, ignotism, infrangible, internecine, illumine, ingot, imposter, iconoclast, indefeasible, indefatigable, impingement and 184 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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brianwantium's Words
bittersweet, inform, festschrift, undulate, flotsam, fauna, petulant, tomfoolery, syncopation, aquiesce, consanguinity, buoyancy and 58 more...
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lscho's Words
panache, umbrella, eschew, loquacious, peanut, nerd, stupid, quotidian, carpet, paws, androgynous, innards and 3 more...
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Kerrily's Vomitrocious Words
honky tonk, ding-a-ling, awkward, chiffon, dowdy, dawdle, spleen, uvula, lettuce, kielbasa, frankfurter, hamburg and 16 more...
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