Definition of insert

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Insert (v. t.) To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper..

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Spile :: Spile (n.) A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple..
Reinsert :: Reinsert (v. t.) To insert again.
Caret :: Caret (n.) A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret..
Intercalate :: Intercalate (v. t.) To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar..
Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen..
Inserted :: Inserted (imp. & p. p.) of Inser.
Flageolet :: Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..
Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..
Lard :: Lard (n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry..
Graft :: Graft (v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting..
Packing :: Packing (n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint..
Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor..
Intercalary :: Intercalary (a.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n..
Insertion :: Insertion (n.) The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx..
Sandwich :: Sandwich (v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard..
Insheathe :: Insheathe (v. t.) To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe.
Interpone :: Interpone (v. t.) To interpose; to insert or place between.
Interpolation :: Interpolation (n.) That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Subturriculate :: Subtrude (v. t.) To place under; to insert.
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