Insert vs Penetrate - What's the difference?
insert | penetrate |
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.
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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, author=Th Du Moncel, page=166, publisher=Harper
, passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between insert and penetrate
is that insert is to put in between or into while penetrate is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.As a noun insert
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English
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.
Anagrams
* * * * * English heteronymspenetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
- to penetrate one's heart with pity
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- (Shakespeare)