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Interpolate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IN'TERPOLATE, v.t. [L. interpolo; inter and polio, to polish.]
1. To renew; to begin again; to carry on with intermission; as a succession of interpolated motions.
2. To foist in; to insert, as a spurious word or passage in a manuscript or book; to add a spurious word or passage to the original.
The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law which was cited by Solon, or as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: estimate the value of [syn: interpolate, extrapolate]
2: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-lated; -lating) Etymology: Latin interpolatus, past participle of interpolare to refurbish, alter, interpolate, from inter- + -polare (from polire to polish) Date: 1612 transitive verb 1. a. to alter or corrupt (as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter b. to insert (words) into a text or into a conversation 2. to insert between other things or parts ; intercalate 3. to estimate values of (data or a function) between two known values intransitive verb to make insertions (as of estimated values) Synonyms: see introduce • interpolation noun • interpolative adjective • interpolator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 a insert (words) in a book etc., esp. to give false impressions as to its date etc. b make such insertions in (a book etc.). 2 interject (a remark) in a conversation. 3 estimate (values) from known ones in the same range. Derivatives: interpolation n. interpolative adj. interpolator n. Etymology: L interpolare furbish up (as INTER-, polire POLISH(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Interpolate In*ter"po*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interpolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Interpolating.] [L. interpolatus, p. p. of interpolare to form anew, to interpolate, fr. interpolus, interpolis, falsified, vamped up, polished up; inter between + polire to polish. See Polish, v. t.] 1. To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. --Sir M. Hale. 2. To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. --Bp. Barlow. The Athenians were put in possession of Salamis by another law, which was cited by Solon, or, as some think, interpolated by him for that purpose. --Pope. 3. (Math.) To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(interpolates, interpolating, interpolated) If you interpolate a comment into a conversation or some words into a piece of writing, you put it in as an addition. (FORMAL) Williams interpolated much spurious matter... These odd assertions were interpolated into the manuscript some time after 1400. = insert VERB: V n, be V-ed into n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Insert (wrongfully), foist in. 2. (Math.) Introduce, intercalate (terms to complete a series).

Moby Thesaurus

add, admit, annex, append, drag in, edge in, enter, fill in, foist in, fudge in, implant in, inject in, insert, insert in, insinuate, insinuate in, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interlope, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, lug in, put between, run in, sandwich, smuggle in, squeeze in, superadd, throw in, thrust in, wedge in, work in, worm in