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Insert   /ɪnsˈərt/  /ˈɪnsˌərt/   Listen
Insert

verb
(past & past part. inserted; pres. part. inserting)
1.
Put or introduce into something.  Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce.
2.
Introduce.  Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in.
3.
Fit snugly into.  Synonym: tuck.  "Tuck your shirttail in"
4.
Insert casually.  Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in.
noun
1.
A folded section placed between the leaves of another publication.
2.
An artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted.  Synonym: inset.
3.
(broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program.  Synonym: cut-in.
4.
(film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film.  Synonym: cut-in.



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"Insert" Quotes from Famous Books



... tackling rich, and of apparel high." From a passage in Skelton, which I cannot here insert, not having ...
— Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. 1 • William Wordsworth
... conscious of it when the incoming message reaches some part of the brain. What shall be done with this consciousness? The interactionist insists that it must be regarded as a link in the physical chain of causes and effects—he breaks the chain to insert it. The parallelist maintains that it is inconceivable that such an insertion should be made. He regards the physical series as complete in itself, and he places the consciousness, as it were, on ...
— An Introduction to Philosophy • George Stuart Fullerton
... manuscript from which this Letter is taken is in Mr. Burke's own handwriting, but it does not appear to whom it was addressed, nor is there any date affixed to it. It has been thought proper to insert it here, as being connected with the ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... removing the objection, to which the letter was obnoxious, of entirely ignoring the discoveries of the Bretons, which were distinctly asserted in the discourse. In order to conform to the Verrazzano letter, as it was thus modified, it was necessary to insert this clause in the discourse, which would else to contradict the letter entirely. The two alterations, however necessary they were to preserve some consistency between the two documents, are, nevertheless, both alike repugnant to the ...
— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy
... its back toward you, insert the letter, putting in first the edge last folded. The form of the envelope may require the letter to be folded in the middle. Other conditions may require ...
— Graded Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg


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