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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



... feet of a turkey and it is useless to him. Show him the lock it fits, and it is still useless without the knowledge of how to insert the key and turn it. Unlock it for him, and still it is useless without the knowledge of how to push or ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton

... any way during development or birth, if it has been smashed up in any way, or if it has failed to evolve the minimum number of healthy nerve cells, the endocrine influence becomes negligible. It is like attempting to insert a key into a ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... with wonderful facility, and could paint a well finished landscape and insert all the figures in one day; it is impossible to inspect one of his bold, rapid sketches, without being struck with the fertility of his invention, and the skill of hand that rivalled in execution the activity of his mind. ...
— Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) • Shearjashub Spooner

... points that she did not mention at that time, which, we will insert for the benefit of the reader, ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale

... who is interested to do so will kindly turn back at this point a page or so, and read this chapter we have just gone through together, over again, and if he will kindly, wherever it occurs, insert for Tom Mann, labour leader, "D.A. Thomas, leader of mine-owners," he will save much time for both of us, and he will kindly make one chapter in this book which is already much too long, as good as two. Tom Mann (unless ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee


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