insert

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To put something into something else.

   To withdraw money, you have to insert your debit card into the machine.

2. 2
   noun

   A printed leaflet placed inside a magazine, newspaper, or package.

   An advertising insert fell out of the Sunday newspaper.

3. 3
   noun

   A part made to fit inside something else.

   The shoe came with a soft cushioned insert.

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.

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