The meaning of INLET is a bay or recess in the shore of a sea, lake, or river; also : creek. How to use inlet in a sentence.
/ ˈɪn let, -lɪt / Add to word list a narrow channel of water that goes from a sea or lake into the land or between islands (Definition of inlet from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, [1] that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
inlet noun A body of water partly enclosed by land but having a wide outlet to the sea:
Gas flows steadily in through the inlet and out through the outlet. The inlet at the base of the windshield allows outside air to enter the air-conditioning system. An inlet is a tube, valve, or other part through which a fluid enters a device or machine.
Definition of inlet noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Verb inlet (third-person singular simple present inlets, present participle inletting, simple past and past participle inlet) (transitive) To let in; admit. (transitive) To insert; inlay.
An inlet is a narrow passage of water that serves as a conduit between two larger bodies of water, typically linking a sea or ocean to an inland bay, lagoon, or sound.