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Verb: insert  in'surt
  1. Place onto or put into something
    "insert a picture into the text";
    - infix, enter, introduce
     
  2. Place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
    "Insert your ticket here";
    - enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
     
  3. Fit snugly into
    "insert your ticket into the slot";
    - tuck
     
  4. Put in casually or without drawing attention
    "She inserted a reference to her own work";
    - slip in, stick in, sneak in
Noun: insert  in'surt
  1. A folded section placed between the leaves of another publication
     
  2. An artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
    - inset
     
  3. (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program
    - cut-in
     
  4. (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film
    - cut-in

Derived forms: inserted, inserting, inserts

Type of: add, append, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], attach, break, close in, disruption, enclose, gap, inclose, interruption, lay, place, pose, position, put, section, set, shut in, subdivision, supply

Encyclopedia: Insert