implant

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō.

• (Received Pronunciation):
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɑːnt/
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /ˈɪmplɑːnt/
• (General American):
  • (verb): enPR: ĭmplăntʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplænt/
  • (noun): enPR: ĭmʹplănt', IPA^(key): /ˈɪmˌplænt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnt, -ænt

implant (third-person singular simple present implants, present participle implanting, simple past and past participle implanted)

1. (transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
2. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
3. (intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.

• (fix firmly or set securely or deeply): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root
• (insert (something) surgically into the body): graft

• implantable

• implantation

implant (plural implants)

1. Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
2. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.

• (breast implant): outplant

• Tamplin

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /imˈplant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /imˈplan/

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

• implantar

• “implant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “implant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “implant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “implant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

• “implant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).