Implant vs Insinuate - What's the difference?
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To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
To insert (something) surgically into the body.
Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly (breast implant)s.
(travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
(rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
* Woodward
(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
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* John Locke
* Dryden
* Clarendon
To hint; to suggest tacitly while avoiding a direct statement.
Implant is a related term of insinuate.
As verbs the difference between implant and insinuate
is that implant is while insinuate is (rare) to creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.implant
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(en verb)Synonyms
* (fix firmly or set securely or deeply ): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root * (insert (something) surgically into the body''): graft (''from another part of the body )Derived terms
* implantableNoun
(wikipedia implant) (en noun)Derived terms
* (breast implant) (l)insinuate
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- The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.
- Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.
- All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
- Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
- He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
- She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.