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Ingraft vs Infix - What's the difference?

ingraft | infix | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between ingraft and infix

is that ingraft is an alternative spelling of lang=en while infix is to set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

As a noun infix is

a morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as {{term|-i-|lang=en}} and {{term|-o-|lang=en}} in English.

ingraft

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=Precaution, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=John Lord, title=Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, title=Searchlights on Health, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring

    Anagrams

    *

    infix

    English

    (wikipedia infix)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
  • to infix a sting, spear, or dart
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
  • The fatal dart a ready passage found, / And deep within her heart infixed the wound.
  • To instill.
  • (linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
  • Noun

    (es)
  • (linguistics) A morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as in English.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (affixes)

    Derived terms

    * infixal * infixation

    See also

    * postfix * (wikipedia "infix")

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----