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As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
Rene Cassin

Meaning of "interject" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INTERJECT

From Latin interjicere to place between, from jacere to throw.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INTERJECT

interject  [ˌɪntəˈdʒɛkt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTERJECT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Interject is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb interject in English.

WHAT DOES INTERJECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of interject in the English dictionary

The definition of interject in the dictionary is to interpose abruptly or sharply; interrupt with; throw in. Other definition of interject is to come between; interpose.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INTERJECT

PRESENT

Present
I interject
you interject
he/she/it interjects
we interject
you interject
they interject
Present continuous
I am interjecting
you are interjecting
he/she/it is interjecting
we are interjecting
you are interjecting
they are interjecting
Present perfect
I have interjected
you have interjected
he/she/it has interjected
we have interjected
you have interjected
they have interjected
Present perfect continuous
I have been interjecting
you have been interjecting
he/she/it has been interjecting
we have been interjecting
you have been interjecting
they have been interjecting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I interjected
you interjected
he/she/it interjected
we interjected
you interjected
they interjected
Past continuous
I was interjecting
you were interjecting
he/she/it was interjecting
we were interjecting
you were interjecting
they were interjecting
Past perfect
I had interjected
you had interjected
he/she/it had interjected
we had interjected
you had interjected
they had interjected
Past perfect continuous
I had been interjecting
you had been interjecting
he/she/it had been interjecting
we had been interjecting
you had been interjecting
they had been interjecting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will interject
you will interject
he/she/it will interject
we will interject
you will interject
they will interject
Future continuous
I will be interjecting
you will be interjecting
he/she/it will be interjecting
we will be interjecting
you will be interjecting
they will be interjecting
Future perfect
I will have interjected
you will have interjected
he/she/it will have interjected
we will have interjected
you will have interjected
they will have interjected
Future perfect continuous
I will have been interjecting
you will have been interjecting
he/she/it will have been interjecting
we will have been interjecting
you will have been interjecting
they will have been interjecting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would interject
you would interject
he/she/it would interject
we would interject
you would interject
they would interject
Conditional continuous
I would be interjecting
you would be interjecting
he/she/it would be interjecting
we would be interjecting
you would be interjecting
they would be interjecting
Conditional perfect
I would have interject
you would have interject
he/she/it would have interject
we would have interject
you would have interject
they would have interject
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been interjecting
you would have been interjecting
he/she/it would have been interjecting
we would have been interjecting
you would have been interjecting
they would have been interjecting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you interject
we let´s interject
you interject
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to interject
Past participle
interjected
Present Participle
interjecting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTERJECT


abject
ˈæbdʒɛkt
counterproject
ˈkaʊntəˌprɒdʒɛkt
deject
dɪˈdʒɛkt
disject
dɪsˈdʒɛkt
eject
ɪˈdʒɛkt
inject
ɪnˈdʒɛkt
introject
ˌɪntrəˈdʒɛkt
megaproject
ˈmɛɡəˌprɒdʒɛkt
project
ˈprɒdʒɛkt
reeject
ˌriːɪˈdʒɛkt
reject
rɪˈdʒɛkt
reobject
ˌriːəbˈdʒɛkt
resubject
ˌriːsəbˈdʒɛkt
retroject
ˌrɛtrəʊˈdʒɛkt
subproject
ˈsʌbˌprɒdʒɛkt
traject
trəˈdʒɛkt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTERJECT

interiority
interiorization
interiorize
interiorly
interisland
interj.
interjacency
interjacent
interjaculate
interjaculatory
interjection
interjectional
interjectionally
interjectionary
interjector
interjectory
interjectural
interjoin
interkineses
interkinesis

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTERJECT

BL Lac object
change the subject
core subject
direct object
Eden Project
found object
housing project
indirect object
literacy project
Manhattan Project
no object
object
public housing project
sex object
short subject
special subject
specialized subject
subject
turnkey project
unidentified flying object

Synonyms and antonyms of interject in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INTERJECT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «interject» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of interject

Translation of «interject» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTERJECT

Find out the translation of interject to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of interject from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «interject» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

插话
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

interject
570 millions of speakers

English

interject
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

interject
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تقحم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вставлять
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

interpor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মধ্যে নিক্ষেপ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intervenir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Campur aduk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

einwerfen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

差し挟む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

끼어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Interject
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xen vào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடையில் கூறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परस्पर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

arada söylemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

interject
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wtrącić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вставляти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intervin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

interject
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

interject
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skyte inn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of interject

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERJECT»

The term «interject» is normally little used and occupies the 112.478 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERJECT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «interject» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «interject» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about interject

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2 QUOTES WITH «INTERJECT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word interject.
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Rene Cassin
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
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Jon Katz
Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTERJECT»

Discover the use of interject in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to interject and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
SYNONYM STUDY: insert INJECT, INTERJECT, LNTERPOLATE, INTRODUCE, MEDIATE. If you want to put something in a fixed place between or among other things, you can insert it (insert a new paragraph in an essay; insert photographs ...
Elizabeth Jewell, 2006
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the ...
Hold, hbld. interject. Forbear, stop, be still. Hold, hold. s. The act of seizing, gripe, grasp, seizure ; something to be held, support ; catch, power of seizing or keeping; prison, place of custody ; power, influence ; custody. Hold of a ship, all that ...
John Walker, 1807
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
2 the interior of the province: center, heartland, hinterland, backcountry, bush. antonyms borderland. interject verb 1 may I interject a comment? interpose, introduce, throw in, interpolate, add, insert. 2 please refrain from interjecting during each ...
‎2012
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
2 Christina felt bound to interject before there was open warfare: interrupt, intervene, cut in, break in, butt in, chime in; have one's say, put one's oar in; remark, comment; Brit. informal chip in, put one's pennyworth in; N. Amer. informal put one's ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
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HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter
How. to. Interject. in. a. Meeting. by. Jodi. Glickman. How many times have you sat through a meeting with something brilliant to say but never knowing quite when to say it? Or realized halfway through the meeting that your colleague said  ...
Harvard Business Review, 2011
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Beast Management
Once you recognize your response to the beast's cue, you have pinpointed an opening in the behavioral sequence where you can interject a new variable—a surprising behavior your adversary has not witnessed from you in prior altercations.
Philip Sutton Chard, 2009
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A Short Introduction of Grammar Generally to be Used;: ...
INTERJECT. I. ONE. INterjeftio eft pars orationis, quae fab inconditá voce fubito pro rumpentem animi affectum demonftrat. Tot autfm fun t Inter jecíionum fignificationes , quot animi perturbât! lunt IftOtlK. Exultantis : ut , Evax , vah. Plaut.
William Lily, 1709
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Computer control of flexible manufacturing systems: Research ...
... Distinguished state productions {Interject ("ST1"); (Interject ("ST4"); {Interject (" STO"); {Interject ("ST4") {Interject ("ST3") Alternative productions arrive ; depart pickO pickl pick2 putO putl put2 STNID ARRIVE CARTID : STNID DEPART : PICKO ...
S. Joshi, Jeffrey Smith, 1994
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Motion Practice
Oral argument also permits the lawyer to interject some emotion and perhaps drama into the factual description. The lawyer should attempt to impress upon the judge the notion that the case involves persons with real-life problems and not just ...
10
A Psychotic Influence: Poems of a Psychotic Journey
Dare we interject, with cause and effect? Held in the unknown as of yet. Do we ever want to stop time? Just for thirty minutes, just for ten or nine? What's the present anyway when it's controlled by the divine? 5 seconds ago: where was that and ...
Gemma Darbon, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTERJECT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term interject is used in the context of the following news items.
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Crime stats favorable for Rio Rancho | KRQE News 13
Rio Rancho Police Captain Paul Rogers says the department “looks for similarities, tries to identify trends that we can interject ourselves into to ... «KRQE News 13, Jul 15»
2
5 steps to landing a second date | News OK
Women feel more connected when men laugh with them, use the word “you” a lot, ask questions and interject in the conversation to show ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
3
Fiscal Year Budget, Zoning Changes, Confederate Monuments …
Governor McCrory has taken two steps to interject that pique our interest: Governor McCrory addressed the House Republican Caucus then the ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
4
ANT-MAN Review: Big Things Come in Small, Pym Particle-Sized …
... reflect on the mistakes of the past, but Rudd always knows the perfect time to interject with a hilarious quip to disarm us and make us laugh. «Comic Book Movie, Jul 15»
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Man is Shot and Killed by the Officers He Called to Help Search for …
Profiling and bias, I was told, were awkward to interject into the conversation and hard to substantiate. And raising concerns about the shooting ... «Streetsblog Los Angeles, Jul 15»
6
Edict and Oligarchy: The Modern Federal Judiciary | Tenth …
It has given federal judges an ability to interject their own opinions into municipalities, provides the federal government a pretext for policing the ... «Tenth Amendment Center, Jul 15»
7
Homosexuals 'put to death' quote causes outrage in same sex debate
The continued verbal attack on Sinn Fein saw Chairman O'Reilly attempt to interject a number of times, earning Cllr Baird a 'telling off' for not ... «Fermanagh Herald, Jul 15»
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5 steps to landing a second date
Women feel more connected when men laugh with them, use the word “you” a lot, ask questions and interject in the conversation to show ... «Chronicle Independent, Jul 15»
9
How much money do you need for retirement? - Hometownlife.com
This is when I had to interject. I made the comment that “There is no guarantee that will happen.” I explained I was a financial planner and from ... «Hometownlife.com, Jul 15»
10
Time to Take Down the Rainbow Flag - Mike Adams - Page 1
Generally speaking, shouldn't we be trying to keep sex out of the workplace and not trying to interject it into the work environment? « 1 · 2 · ». «Town Hall, Jul 15»

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