Inlet

Noun

 * 1) A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
 * 2) A passage that leads into a cavity.
 * 3) * 1748. HUME, David.  An enquiry concerning human understanding.  In:  L. A. SELBY-BIGGE, M. A.  Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral.  2. ed.  London: Oxford University Press, 1973.  § 15.
 * by opening this new inlet for sensations, you also open an inlet for the ideas;

Thesaurus
access, adit, air lock, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, approach, arcade, arm, artery, avenue, bay, bayou, bight, broaching, cavity, channel, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, cove, covered way, crack, creek, defile, disclosure, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, exit, fenestra, ferry, fistula, fontanel, foramen, ford, gallery, gangplank, gangway, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hall, harbor, hiatus, hole, hollow, in, ingress, intake, interchange, intersection, interval, junction, lacuna, lane, laying open, leak, loch, lough, means of access, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, pore, portico, railroad tunnel, slot, slough, space, split, stoma, throwing open, traject, trajet, tunnel, uncorking, underpass, unstopping, vestibule, way, way in, yawn

Etymology
From inlate:, from inleten:, equivalent to. Compare inlat:,  Einlass:.

Translations

 * Dutch: inham,
 * French: crique, bras de rivière
 * German: Seegatt,
 * Icelandic: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 浦 (うら, ura)
 * Latin: fenestra, aestuarium
 * Thai: อ่าว

Anagrams

 * intel, Intel
 * leint
 * let in