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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



... abuse intended. This will give you trouble; but as I have never found you declining trouble, when it is necessary, I venture to propose it. I hope it will not expose you to inconvenience, as by instructing Lambe to insert in his drafts a proper usance, you can, in the mean time, raise the money for them by drawing on Holland. I must inform you that Mr. Barclay wishes to be put on the same footing with Mr. Lambe, as to this article, and therefore I return ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... Let me insert another parenthesis to observe that I am speaking of the broad mass, the average, in a general way. For it stands to reason that the offspring may be vaguely intermediate between two parents, may resemble one or both in certain ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
... brought a retort from Garrick, which we insert, as giving something of a likeness of Goldsmith, though in ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... insert merely on account of the Betise of the quotation. The Dutch inscription on sticks of sealing-wax would have ...
— A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 • Richard Twiss
... out the stem, place it in his vest pocket, like a pencil, and drop the bowl into the bag containing the granulated tobacco. When he wanted to smoke again (which was usually five minutes later) he would fish out the bowl, now automatically filled with tobacco, insert the stem, and strike a light. One afternoon as he wandered into Bok's office, he was just putting his pipe away. The pipe, of the corncob variety, was very aged and black. Bok asked him whether it was the only pipe ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)


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