INSET (insetting)

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Irregular inflected form: insetting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does inset mean? 

• INSET (noun)
  The noun INSET has 3 senses:

1. a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one

2. an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted

3. a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment

  Familiarity information: INSET used as a noun is uncommon.

• INSET (verb)
  The verb INSET has 1 sense:

1. set or place in

  Familiarity information: INSET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("inset" is a kind of...):

icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

insert; inset

Hypernyms ("inset" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inset"):

dickey; dickie; dicky; shirtfront (a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt)

Derivation:

inset (set or place in)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gusset; inset

Hypernyms ("inset" is a kind of...):

piece of cloth; piece of material (a separate part consisting of fabric)

Holonyms ("inset" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Derivation:

inset (set or place in)

• INSET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they inset    ... he / she / it insets   
Past simple: inset    / insetted   
Past participle: inset    / insetted   
-ing form: insetting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set or place in

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "inset" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

inset (a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment)

inset (an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted)

 Context examples 

The reddish enhanced color image shown as the left inset reveals a mountain range located in southeast Cthulhu that’s 260 miles (420 kilometers) long.

(Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks, NASA)

Professor Munchausen—how's that for an inset headline?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The southern portion of the left inset above shows the cratered plateau uplands informally named Vega Terra.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

The inset above magnifies a portion of the eastern limb in the global view of Charon at left, imaged by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft several hours before its closest approach on July 14, 2015.

(A ‘Super Grand Canyon’ on Pluto’s Moon Charon, NASA)

Compositional data from the New Horizons spacecraft, shown in the right inset, indicate that the plateau uplands south of Piri Rupes are rich in methane ice (shown in false color as purple).

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

The light/dark mottled pattern of Piri Planitia in the left inset is reflected in the composition map, with the lighter areas corresponding to areas richer in methane – these may be remnants of methane that have not yet sublimated away entirely.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)