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where the sea sneaks inland and pretends it was invited.
means A narrow strip of water reaching from a larger body, like a sea or lake, into the land, or an opening through which something enters.
from A plain compound of "in" and "let," where "let" carries its old sense of "a letting in" — from the verb "let," meaning to allow or permit, the same root that gives us "outlet." So an inlet is quite literally a place that lets water in.
- word origin
- Literally a place where water lets in
- shelter value
- Calm inlets birthed harbors, ports, whole cities
- engine role
- Engines have inlets too, gulping air to burn
- tidal trick
- Narrow inlets amplify tides into roaring currents
- shifting shape
- Storms can carve new inlets overnight
hudson river inlet — narrow passage between new jersey and new york where the hudson river meets upper new york bay
puget sound — major inlet in washington state covering 2,150 square miles with seattle at its eastern end
chesapeake bay — largest estuary inlet in the united states, spanning 200 miles between virginia and maryland
firth of clyde — inlet in southwestern scotland where the clyde river flows into the north atlantic