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Semidiurnal

Part of Speech: Noun

Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.

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Part of Speech: verb transitive

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1. To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.

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Naturally, you may omit some of these and insert others without going wrong- one speaker would interpret a passage in one way, one in another; it is largely a matter of personal preference. - "The Art of Public Speaking", Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein.
All that is necessary in that case is to partly withdraw the needle and again insert it. - "Diseases of the Horse's Foot", Harry Caulton Reeks.
Would he be able to insert the point again between those two difficult shells? - "Phineas Redux", Anthony Trollope.

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