insert

See also: Insert

English

Etymology

From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- +‎ serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.

Pronunciation

• Verb
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnsûtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɜːt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (General American) enPR: ĭnsûrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɝt/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
• Noun
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnʹsût, IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsɜːt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

  • (General American) enPR: ĭnʹsûrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsɝt/
• Hyphenation: in‧sert

Verb

insert (third-person singular simple present inserts, present participle inserting, simple past and past participle inserted)

1. (transitive) To put in between or into.

   In order to withdraw money from a cash machine, you have to insert your debit card.

   To make your proof easier to understand, I recommend you insert a few more steps.

Synonyms

• (put in between or into): enter, inset, introduce, put in, put inside

Antonyms

• delete

Derived terms

• diaper insert
• disinsert
• insertable
• insertee
• inserter
• insertive
• insertor
• outsert
• preinsert
• reinsert
• self-insert
• upsert

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (4 c, 0 e)

Translations

put in between or into — see also intersperse,‎ interpolate,‎ interpose,‎ intercalate

Albanian: shti, fus Arabic: أَدْخَلَ (ʔadḵala) Armenian: ներդնել (hy) (nerdnel), մտցնել (hy) (mtcʻnel), զետեղել (hy) (zeteġel) Assamese: ভৰোৱা (bhorüa) Azerbaijani: salmaq (az), soxmaq (az) Belarusian: устаўля́ць impf (ustawljácʹ), ўстаўля́ць impf (wstawljácʹ), уста́віць pf (ustávicʹ), ўста́віць pf (wstávicʹ); (into or on something written) упі́сваць impf (upísvacʹ), ўпі́сваць impf (wpísvacʹ), упіса́ць pf (upisácʹ), ўпіса́ць pf (wpisácʹ) Bulgarian: вмъквам (bg) (vmǎkvam), пъхвам (bg) (pǎhvam) Catalan: inserir (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 插入 (zh) (chārù), 插上 (zh) (chāshang) Dutch: invoegen (nl) Esperanto: enmeti Finnish: laittaa sisään (into), laittaa väliin (in between) French: insérer (fr), introduire (fr), insinuer (fr) Galician: inserir (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: einsetzen (de), einfügen (de), einwerfen (de) Greek: Ancient: ἐντίθημι (entíthēmi) Irish: ionsáigh Italian: inserire (it) Japanese: 差し込む (ja) (さしこむ, sashikomu), 挟み込む (はさみこむ, hasamikomu), 挿入する (ja) (そうにゅうする, sōnyū suru), 入れる (ja) (いれる, ireru) Khmer: ជៀត (km) (ciet), ស៊ក (km) (sɔɔk), ភ្ជង់ (km) (pcʊəŋ), ញាត់ (km) (ɲoat), ឈ្មៀត (km) (cmiet) Korean: 삽입하다 (ko) (sabiphada), 넣다 (ko) (neota) Latin: indō Linngithigh: thoc Maori: kōkuhu, kōuru, komo, kokomo, whakatō Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Occitan: inserir (oc) Ottoman Turkish: صوقمق (sokmak) Persian: تو گذشتن Polish: wstawiać (pl) impf, wstawić (pl) pf Portuguese: inserir (pt), enxertar (pt) Romanian: insera (ro), băga (ro) Russian: вставля́ть (ru) impf (vstavljátʹ), вста́вить (ru) pf (vstávitʹ), вкла́дывать (ru) impf (vkládyvatʹ), вложи́ть (ru) pf (vložítʹ); (into or on something written) впи́сывать (ru) impf (vpísyvatʹ), вписа́ть (ru) pf (vpisátʹ) Slovene: vstáviti (sl) pf Spanish: insertar (es), meter (es), enserir (es), injerir (es), inserir (es), dentrotraer (es) (dated), entregerir (es) (dated), interserir (dated) Swedish: sätta i (into), stoppa in (into), infoga (sv) (in between), skjuta in (sv) (in between), lägga in (sv) (into) Thai: แทรก (th) (sɛ̂ɛk) Turkish: sokmak (tr) Ukrainian: вставля́ти impf (vstavljáty), вста́вити pf (vstávyty) Vietnamese: chèn (vi), nhét (vi)

Noun

insert (plural inserts)

1. An image inserted into text.
2. A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.

   This software can print compact disc inserts if you have the right size of paper.

3. A mechanical component inserted into another.

   a threaded insert

4. (linguistics) An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
5. (genetics) A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.
6. (television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.
7. (film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.
   • 2013, David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, page 316:

     […] close-ups of her legs on the escalator, an insert of the emergency stop button (ARRET D'URGENCE), intercut close-ups of her glance and the cinema sign, […]

8. (childcare, informal) A diaper insert.
9. (audio effects) A plug-in that adds an effect to an audio track.
10. (computing) A key to toggle between text insert mode and overwrite mode

Derived terms

• bra insert
• diaper insert
• insertless
• insert song
• microinsert
• misinsert
• nappy insert
• outsert
• self-insert
• shoe insert
• snake insert
• vinyl insert

Related terms

• insertion

Translations

image inserted into text

Finnish: kuvituskuva (fi) French: in texte m, illustration (fr) f Hungarian: inzert (hu) Russian: вкле́йка (ru) f (vkléjka), вста́вка (ru) f (vstávka), вкла́дыш (ru) m (vkládyš)

inserted leaflet

Bulgarian: вложка f (vložka) Finnish: mainosliite French: encart (fr) m German: Beilage (de) f Hungarian: betétlap (hu), melléklet (hu), reklámanyag (hu) Luxembourgish: Bäilag f Polish: wkładka (pl) f, wrzutka (pl) f Portuguese: encarte (pt) m Russian: (рекла́мная) вкле́йка (ru) f (vkléjka), (рекла́мная) вста́вка (ru) f (vstávka), (рекла́мный) вкла́дыш (ru) m (vkládyš)

a mechanical component inserted into another

Spanish: inserto (es) m, insertante m (Spain), insertable m (Spain), insertivo m (Spain)

Anagrams

• inerts, estrin, Strine, sinter, Stiner, retins, inters, nitres, Tiners, niters, Estrin, trines, Trines, terins, triens

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• inhert — slang

Etymology

From English insert, from Latin insertus, past participle of inserō.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: in‧sert

Verb

insert

1. to tuck in; to push (the fabric at the bottom of a shirt) under the pants

Adjective

insert

1. having one's clothes tucked in

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

insert m (plural inserts)

1. (genetics) insert

Further reading

• “insert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English insert or French insert or Italian inserto.

Noun

insert n (plural inserturi)

1. insert, insertion

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	insert	insertul		inserturi	inserturile
genitive-dative	insert	insertului		inserturi	inserturilor
vocative	insertule			inserturilor