Definition of Inbound

1. Adjective. Directed or moving inward or toward a center. "Inward flood of capital"

Exact synonyms: Inward
Similar to: Incoming
Derivative terms: Inwardness

Definition of Inbound

1. Adjective. Coming in, heading inwards ¹

2. Verb. (basketball) To pass a ball inbounds ¹

3. Noun. (context: logistics) An inbound shipment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inbound

1. to put a basketball in play from out of bounds [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inbound

inbetweening
inbind
inbland
inblow
inblown
inboard
inboarded
inboarding
inboards
inborn
inborn error of metabolism
inborn errors of metabolism
inborn lysosomal disease
inborn reflex
inbornness
inbound (current term)
inbounded
inbounding
inbounds
inbox
inboxes
inbreak
inbreaking
inbreaks
inbreathe
inbreathed
inbreathes
inbreathing
inbred
inbred strain

Literary usage of Inbound

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"5 NYC & St.LRR, inbound and Outbound. 6 Erie RR, inbound and Outbound. 7 GTWRy., inbound. ... 31 ICRR, inbound and Outbound. 32 MCRR, inbound and Outbound. ..."

2. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"PRINCIPLES COVERING DESIGN OF inbound AND OUTBOUND. ... In large cities it is frequently advisable to build the inbound houses several stories high, ..."

3. The Isdn Consultant: A Stress-Free Guide to High-Speed Communications by Robert E. Lee (1996)
"inbound and Outbound The first distinction the telephone industry makes on calling services is whether they are inbound, outbound or both. ..."

4. Ocean Steamship Traffic Management by Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1920)
"The inbound Freight Department first sends a notice of arrival and freight ... Copies of these delivery documents which are issued in the inbound Freight ..."

5. Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations by William Russell Willcox (1920)
"Other assumptions similar to those previously used are truck loadings of two tons and one ton respectively for inbound and outbound freight, ..."

6. City Building: A Citation of Methods in Use in More Than One Hundred Cities by S. H. Clay (1913)
"With the steam roads, it is a little more difficult to conduct inbound excursions on the reduced fare plan. It can be done, however, by getting the railroad ..."

7. Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act, from 1908 by Herbert Confield Lust, Ralph Merriam (1913)
"... is not over the same line as the inbound movement Red River Oil Co. v. ... should be ordered in on another line, where the circumstances of inbound and ..."

8. Wharf Management, Stevedoring and Storage by Roy Samuel MacElwee, Thomas Rothwell Taylor (1921)
"Papers for inbound Freight.—As the ship must first discharge its freight before loading, it is logical to begin with inbound (at Atlantic ports of the ..."

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