interpolation [in-tur-puh-ley-shuhn] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
aside [uh-sahyd]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: confidential statement
Synonyms: departure, digression, discursion, interpolation, interposition, parenthesis, tangent, throwaway
Main Entry: insertion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insert
Synonyms: inclusion, infusion, injection, interjection, interpolation, introduction
Main Entry: lead-in
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: introduction
Synonyms: addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey
Example Sentences
  • The language is plain, with the occasional interpolation of a colorful archaic phrase.
  • Along with ruminative psychological resonances, the singer amplified the melodies with sophisticated be- bop interpolation.
  • But the translator said he wanted to aim at minimal interpolation.
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Main Entry: prolegomenon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: introduction
Synonyms: addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prologue, survey
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Forcible ingress] Insertion.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation (intervention); planting; injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath (water), [more]; interment., clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement.
-verbs
insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue., graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant; dovetail., obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce (make a hole)., imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak (water); dip, plunge., bury (inter)., insert itself; plunge in medias res.
-adjectives
inserted.
Antonyms: extraction
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