Infix

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To fix in the mind; instill.
  • v. Linguistics To insert (a morphological element) into the body of a word.
  • n. Linguistics An inflectional or derivational element appearing in the body of a word. For example, in Tagalog, the active verb sulat "write” can be converted to a passive, "written,” by inserting the infix -in-, yielding sinulat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To instill.
  • v. To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
  • n. A morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as -i- and -o- in English. This adds additional meaning or alters the meaning of the morpheme it is inserted into.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
  • v. To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions.
  • n. Something infixed.
  • n. An element that is inserted into the body of an elemt which it threby modifies, as a letter within a word.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fix or fasten in; insert forcibly; implant firmly: as. to infix a dart; to infix facts in the memory.
  • To insert additionally or accessorily. See infix, n.
  • n. Something infixed; in grammar, an element having the value of a suffix or a prefix, but inserted in the body of a word, as practised in some languages.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an affix that is inserted inside the word
  • v. put or introduce into something
  • v. attach a morpheme into a stem word
  • Verb Form
    infixed    infixes    infixing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    affix   
    Cross Reference
    postfix   
    Form
    infixation    infixal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    instill   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts