1570s, "narrow opening into a coast, arm of the sea," a special use of Middle English inleten "to let in" (c. 1300), from in + let (v.). In this sense said by old sources to be originally a Kentish term.
例文
1. There is an inlet to a parking lot.
そこに駐車場の入り口があります。
2.They went to a fishing village on a small inlet of the sea.
彼らは小さな入り江沿いの漁村に行った。
3.I mean to get into North Inlet ,and beach her quietly there.'
私は船を北の氷に入れて、そこで穏やかに岸に登るようにします」
-金銀島
4.Some carburetors have an auxliary fuel valve and inlet .
一部のキャブレタは、予備の燃料弁と入口を備えている。
5.The fresh-air inlet was usually the crankcase breather cap.