Transplant vs Infix - What's the difference?
transplant | infix | Related terms |
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
(medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
An act of uprooting and moving (something).
Anything that is transplanted.
(medicine) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted.
(medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue.
(US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
* 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
* Dryden
To instill.
(linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
(linguistics) A morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as in English.
In transitive terms the difference between transplant and infix
is that transplant is to remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate while infix is to instill.transplant
English
Verb
(transplanting) (en verb)Noun
(en noun)- The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
infix
English
(wikipedia infix)Verb
(es)- to infix a sting, spear, or dart
- (Shakespeare)
- The fatal dart a ready passage found, / And deep within her heart infixed the wound.