单词 | insert |
释义 | insertn. Something inserted. Thesaurus » Categories » a. An additional sentence or paragraph added to a proof to be inserted in the ‘revise’ or ‘final’. b. In the U.S. postal service, A paper, circular, etc. placed within the folds of a newspaper, or the leaves of a magazine or book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > a publication > [noun] > throw-away or insert throwaway1883 insert1893 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I 1907 Installation News Dec. 1/2 There are three of these loose inserts. One is a pamphlet..; the second is an advance price sheet [etc.]. 1928 R. B. H. Bell Life Abundant 142 This little book would not be complete without an insert on the Art of Prayer. c. An object of one material around which another material (as concrete, plastic, or metal) sets or solidifies, or which is forced into it after it has set. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > into a surrounding mass > that which is inclusion1869 insert1913 1913 G. A. Hool Reinforced Concrete Constr. II. iv. 152 These castings are made in convenient lengths and the slot in the bottom makes it possible to place hangers or bolts at any desired location along the length of the insert. The casting can be anchored as securely in the concrete as may be necessary. 1933 L. F. Rahm Plastic Molding i. 10 Where the production of work is large enough to justify it, special machines may be developed for the simultaneous staking-in of multiple inserts, instead of molding these in the article. 1934 H. Chase Die Castings iv. 145 Inserts are usually knurled on the surface in contact with metal cast around them. 1967 B. Harocopos tr. Technol. Gravity Die-casting ix. 121 In die-casting, it is possible to produce articles comprising cast~in-place inserts of ferrous metals, bronze, brass or, less frequently, of aluminium. 1968 Gloss. Formwork Terms (B.S.I.) 16 Insert, a piece of timber or other material cast into the concrete surface usually to provide a fixing. d. A shot inserted into a cinema film, taken after the filming of a particular sequence. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > interposed scene cut-in1913 insert1916 1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd xvi. 269 He made all of his ‘close-ups’, his inserts and sub-titles. 1949 A. Huxley Let. 6 Mar. (1969) 593 Hitchcock..now shoots continuously a whole reel at a time, doing everything without cutting, getting the necessary close-ups and inserts..by camera movements and movements of the actors. 1957 B.B.C. Handbk. 119 Items presented from a central studio may be combined with ‘live’ or filmed inserts originating from anywhere in Britain. 1965 Movie Spring 26 The insert shots representing Hamp's mental images (these recall the joke insert of the mother dropping dead in Shoot the Pianist). 1970 New Yorker 26 Sept. 123/1 Keaton doesn't care much for inserts. ‘I like long takes, in long-shot,’ he says. ‘Close ups hurt comedy.’ e. Miscellaneous uses. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > that which is > an inserted piece or part insertion1624 inlet1798 install1871 insert1922 1922 M. B. Houston Witch Man xiv. 180 She glanced quickly through the sheets of paper lying there, even at the insert in the typewriter. 1950 Jrnl. Acoustical Soc. Amer. 22 655/1 (heading) Magnetic insert earphone insertable in the ear of the user... This small telephone receiver is of the earphone type such as is used with hearing aids. 1955 Gloss. Acoustical Terms (B.S.I.) 24 Insert earphone, an earphone of small dimensions associated with a fitting for insertion into the auditory meatus. 1961 Times 29 Aug. 13/7 Special inserts telling the story behind this new cigarette are contained in each packet. 1962 B.B.C. Handbk. 51 The BBC contributed 116 programmes and received a total of 199 complete programmes or inserts from the network. 1968 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 62 The printing of book-form catalogues is the principal aim of the project; these catalogues are to be maintained up to date by insert sheets. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 52/1 (advt.) Men's Leather Palm Wool Gloves. Expertly fashioned of a bulky knit wool with slip-resistant leather palm inserts. 1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps 11 The latest area to have taken up Queen Elizabeth British issues is Western Europe, and the Post Office has responded with overseas agencies and translation inserts in their packaged sets. 1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Oct. 4/8 Such warranties can be found in many places: in the advertisements of the product, in the circulars or package inserts accompanying it. Draft additions June 2004 Computing. Also with capital initial. A mode of operation on a word processor, word-processing program, or other text editor in which a keyed character is inserted before the character after the cursor rather than replacing it; also insert mode. Cf. overtype n. ΚΠ 1982 Computerworld 8 Feb. 121/4 Other standard features include..insert, delete, overtype,..and other commands. 1997–8 Microsoft Mag. Winter 36/1 The typing mode does not switch from insert to overtype or vice versa. 1999 D. Gookin Word 2000 for Windows for Dummies iv. 51 Insert mode's evil twin is Overtype mode. In Overtype mode, all the text you type overwrites the existing text on-screen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). insertv. 1. a. transitive. To set, put, or place in; to push or thrust in; to fix or fix in; to introduce; to ingraft. Said primarily of putting any solid object into a space which it fits, or fills up; hence to place a thing, as an addition, between the parts of another, as to insert a page or plate into a book; also, to push or put a thing (e.g. a stick, a finger, the point of a knife) into a hole or aperture, whether to remain there, or to be again withdrawn. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] to do ineOE to put ina1300 insetc1374 to throw ina1382 inducec1420 intriec1420 to set ina1425 tryc1440 enter1489 insert1529 turn1544 insere1557 infer1572 input1593 intromitc1600 introduce1695 to run in1756 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxix This soule yt bryngeth wyth hym such frayle workys eyther wrought by them self or insertyd peraduenture & myxyd a myddys of sum good & vertuouse wurk. a1555 J. Bradford Writings (1848) (modernized text) I. 90 They must needs be condemned if that they be not insert and engrafted into the very true body and natural body of our Saviour Christ. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 119 To varie the unitie of a stone by inserting such spots into the crust as were not by nature. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. iii. ii. xxiv If all to all revert, Each part then into each part is insert. 1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 25 Here a Print of Grotesco should have been inserted. 1782 W. Cowper Poems 366 The bud inserted in the rind..Adorns..The stock whereon it grows. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 117 It inserts its long tongue into the holes through which the ants issue. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 138 His arm is inflamed from the vaccine matter inserted four days since. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) 110 Boring a hole between two flints in a yard..and inserting therein a daisy. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vii. 276 A..key, which he inserted cautiously in the lock..and softly opened the door. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 514 Slightly thickened fibres, between which wide vessels surrounded by bundle-parenchyma are inserted. b. To put or introduce (a letter, word, sentence, paragraph, etc.) into a body of written or printed matter, or into a programme; to put as a paragraph, advertisement, or article, into a newspaper or the like; to introduce as a figure or element in a picture, etc.; to include. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > insert in writing to write inc1384 insert1533 set1535 ascribe1648 append1843 society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [verb (transitive)] > insert insert1713 inset1890 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. ix. f. xlil I haue good reader in thexposycyon of these wordes of our sauyour, inserted the incorporacyon of hym and vs togyther, by the receyuynge and eatynge of his owne body into ours. 1542 D. Lindsay Heraldic Notes in Wks. (E.E.T.S.) v. 609 Vtheris enormities ar incert and registrat in this present buik. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxvi. 73 With our Lords prayer they would finde no fault, so that they might perswade vs..not [to]..insert it so often into the liturgie. 1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 122 I find no more species of birds than what I have already inserted in the Ornithology. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 46 A Short Story may not be unfitly inserted. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5151/4 There was Incerted..in the Gazette, that a Plate..was to be run for. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 345 We would not consent to insert in them [bills] clauses conferring new privileges on the nobility. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 107 Something he had inserted into the Magazine. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > engraft in a family [verb (transitive)] insert1594 imp1616 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B 4 Many Princes..desirous to insert themselues into so royall a kinred..offered their daughters with large portions. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 261 Aetheldred King of England..inserted into his owne familie by way of adoption Aulaf the Dane. 2. Anatomy, Zoology, Botany. To attach; to join at a specified point of attachment. Only in past participle. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 310 Where hath she [Nature] placed and inserted the [gnat's] instrument and organ of smelling?] 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 280 Antennæ with six joints, inserted at the internal margin of the eyes. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 25 The muscles of the arms are inserted in a cranial cartilage. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §157 When an organ is not adherent to any other circle, but inserted on the receptacle, it is said to be free. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1893v.1529 |
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