implant

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō. By surface analysis, im- +‎ plant.

• (Received Pronunciation):
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /ɪmˈplɑːnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (noun): IPA^(key): /ˈɪmplɑːnt/

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• (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.
   • 1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584:

     That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London.

2. (transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
   • 2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:

     If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).

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

• implantation

implant (plural implants)

1. (medicine) Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
   • 2007, Julie Albrecht Royce, Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 420:

     They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.

   • 2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.

2. (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.

• Tamplin

• IPA^(key): (Central) [imˈplan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [imˈplant]

implant m (plural implants)

1. (medicine) implant

• implantar

• “implant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “implant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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

• Turkish: implant

• “implant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English implant, from Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈim.plant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -implant
• Syllabification: im‧plant

implant m inan

1. (medicine) implant (anything surgically implanted in the body)

   Synonym: wszczep

• implant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• implant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French implant.

implant n (plural implanturi)

1. implant