insert
[verb in-surt; noun in-surt]
- to put or place in: to insert a key in a lock.
- to introduce or cause to be introduced into the body of something: to insert an extra paragraph in an article.
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- something inserted or to be inserted.
- an extra leaf or section, printed independently, for binding or tipping into a book or periodical, especially a leaf or section consisting of an illustration or advertisement printed on different paper.
- any small picture, device, etc., surrounded partly or completely by body type.
- a paper, circular, etc., placed within the folds of a newspaper or the leaves of a book, periodical, etc.
- Movies, Television. a cut-in.
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Origin of insert
1520–30; < Latin insertus past participle of inserere to put in, insert, equivalent to in- in-2 + ser- (stem of serere to link together) + -tus past participle suffix
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Contemporary Examples
These tend to arrive when Shuler tempers his impulse to insert himself into the action.
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The state likely will lead in the countervailing lawsuits when (insert a horrid disease here) is found to be linked to e-puffing.
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Historical Examples
After the word "played," in the fifth line, insert the words, "if it is ever played at all."
Now bore a hole in the other end, in which insert the thread.
She had managed to insert it in the door, hoping that Kay would find it.
The result of his observations I shall also insert in the Appendix.
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We have to insert its thin edge at a comma, or else keep still.
The Dominant StrainAnna Chapin Ray
insert
- to put in or between; introduce
- to introduce, as into text, such as a newspaper; interpolate
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- something inserted
- a folded section placed in another for binding in with a book
- a printed sheet, esp one bearing advertising, placed loose between the leaves of a book, periodical, etc
- another word for cut in (def. 6)
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin inserere to plant in, ingraft, from in- ² + serere to join
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Word Origin and History for insert
v.
"to set in, put or place in," 1520s, from insert, past participle of Middle English inseren "to set in place, to graft, to introduce (into the mind)" (late 14c.), from Latin inserere "to put in, implant," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + serere "join together" (see series). Related: Inserted; inserting. The noun meaning "something inserted" is from 1893.
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