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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

插入

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chārù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Insertion/ɪnˈsɜːr.ʃən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #3400 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"请在这行文字中插入一个空格。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of placing or inserting something inside or into something else.

    "The surgeon performed a careful insertion of the medical device."
  2. 2

    A thing that is added or put into something, such as a passage in a text or a part in a manufactured structure.

    "The editor suggested an insertion to clarify the second paragraph."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'insertio', from 'inserere' meaning 'to put in, implant', combining 'in-' (into) and 'serere' (to join, intertwine). The term entered English in the late 16th century, initially used in anatomical and literary contexts to denote the act of placing or introducing one thing into another.

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