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| Main Entry: |
aside
 [uh-sahyd] 
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| 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.
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| 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.
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| Antonyms: | extraction |
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