inserted

[ in-sur-tid ]

adjective

1. Botany. (especially of the parts of a flower) attached to or growing out of some part.
2. Anatomy. having an insertion, as a muscle, tendon, or ligament; attached, as the end of a muscle that moves a bone.

inserted

/ ɪnˈsɜːtɪd /

adjective

1. anatomy (of a muscle) attached to the bone that it moves
2. botany (of parts of a plant) growing from another part, as stamens from the corolla

Other Words From

• unin·serted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inserted¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; insert + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The following page details a tribute gag the Simpsons team inserted into the background of a scene.

From The Daily Beast

In another case, a whole plate of uneaten food (including nuts, hummus and raisins) was pureed and inserted rectally.

From The Daily Beast

As one put it at the beginning of this year, the Assad regime inserted itself into the body of the revolution.

From The Daily Beast

The material (i.e. the slurs) generally gets inserted into other, larger pieces about policy debates.

From The Daily Beast

The Infinity Stones are six magical stones that, when inserted into the Infinity Gauntlet, grant the wearer infinite power.

From The Daily Beast

Dan inserted the primer, pulled the lanyard and sent the contents of the gun into the ranks of the enemy.

From Project Gutenberg

The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.

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He stood up, crowbar in hand, and inserted the chisel blade of the implement between the edge of the door and the doorcase.

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It consists of having a brass tube T inserted in the block moulds before the block is cast.

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First, the introduction of pistons, inserted between the key-slips, which replaced the clumsy composition pedals then in vogue.

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