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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#m1)

2) An inlet is an opening through which water, air or fuel goes in to a machine or pipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#x1)
- We swam in a sheltered inlet where the water was calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#x2)
- Seals rested on the rocks at the end of the inlet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#x3)
- Water flows in through the inlet pipe and out through the outlet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#x4)
- Do not block the air inlet on the heater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#x5)
- A fjord is a long, deep inlet between mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inlet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inlet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.