insert

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   fit snugly into

   insert your ticket into the slot

2. 2
   verb

   put or introduce into something

   insert a picture into the text

3. 3
   verb

   To put in between or into.

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

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   A mechanical component inserted into another.

   a threaded insert

6. 6
   noun

   A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.

   […] 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, […]

7. 7
   noun

   A key that when pressed switches between the overtype mode and the insert mode of a computer.

   Now type the word "fleece" and then a space, and press INSERT once more to cancel LOCK INSERT.

8. 8
   noun

   (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film

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.