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Interpose vs Inject - What's the difference?

interpose | inject |

As verbs the difference between interpose and inject

is that interpose is while inject is to push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

interpose

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
  • to interpose a screen between the eye and the light
  • * Cowper
  • Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?
  • To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
  • (Milton)
  • To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
  • * Cowper
  • long hid by interposing hill or wood.
  • To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
  • Synonyms

    * insert * (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment) interrupt

    Anagrams

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    inject

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
  • The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.
  • To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
  • Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
  • * Milton
  • Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.
  • To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
  • Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.
    to inject the blood vessels
  • To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
  • It's been a week since I stopped injecting , and I'm still in withdrawal.
  • (computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
  • * {{quote-usenet
  • , year=1996 , monthday=November 11 , author=David TaillĂ© , email=taille@calva.net , title=Getting Process information , id=MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr , group=comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 citation
    Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).
  • * {{quote-usenet
  • , year=1999 , monthday=August 23 , author=Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein , email=osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br , title=Java is Going to Be the Death of Java , id=001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr , group=comp.lang.java.advocacy citation
    As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2003 , author=Ryan Russell , title=Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box , chapter=The Thief No One Saw citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=146 , passage=A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2007 , author=Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen , title=XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense , chapter=XSS Theory citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=86 , passage=DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2010 , author=Andrew Moore , title=Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies , chapter=AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It citation , isbn=9780470539439 , page=410 , passage=The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.}}
  • (obsolete) To cast or throw; used with on .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • And mound inject on mound.