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interject
English
Etymology
From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of interici? (“place between”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n.t??d??kt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n.t??d??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
interject (third-person singular simple present interjects, present participle interjecting, simple past and past participle interjected)
- (transitive) To insert something between other things.
- (transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,[1]
- He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 24,[2]
- ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’
- ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.
- 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West” in Sam Moskowitz (ed.), Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon, 1979,[3]
- As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
- 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France” in The New Yorker, 21 August, 2000,[4]
- Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,[1]
- (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.
Synonyms
- (to insert between other things): insert
- (to interpose oneself): interpose, intervene
Related terms
- interjection
Translations
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impose
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French imposer (“to lay on, impose”), taking the place of Latin imponere (“to lay on, impose”), from in (“on, upon”) + ponere (“to put, place”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?po?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?p??z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)
- (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
- Congress imposed new tariffs.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- (intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
- I don't wish to impose upon you.
- to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
- Social relations impose courtesy
- To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
- To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
Derived terms
- imposure
- superimpose
Related terms
- imposition
Translations
Further reading
- impose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- impose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- impose at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- mopies, pomeis
French
Verb
impose
- first-person singular present indicative of imposer
- third-person singular present indicative of imposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
- second-person singular imperative of imposer
Italian
Verb
impose
- third-person singular past historic of imporre
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