Embrace vs Insert - What's the difference?
embrace | insert |
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xx. 1
(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
* Shakespeare
To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
* Dryden
* Denham
To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
To fasten on, as armour.
(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.
To put in between or into.
An image inserted into text.
A promotional leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, etc.
An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
As nouns the difference between embrace and insert
is that embrace is hug (noun); putting arms around someone while insert is a key that when pressed switches between the overtype mode and the insert mode of a computer.As a verb embrace
is to clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.embrace
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Alternative forms
* imbrace (obsolete)Verb
(embrac)- I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
- Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.
- You embrace the occasion.
- What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
- I embrace this fortune patiently.
- Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .
- Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .
- Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
- (Spenser)
- (Blackstone)
Noun
(en noun)insert
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Verb
(en verb)- In order to withdraw money from a cash machine you have to insert your debit card first.
- To make your proof easier to comprehend I recommend you insert a few more steps.
Synonyms
* (put in between or into ): enter, introduce, put in, put insideAntonyms
* deleteNoun
(en noun)- This software can print compact disc inserts if you have the right size of paper.