Inlay vs. Inset — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Inlay and Inset
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Definitions
Inlay
Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often coloured materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix. A great range of materials have been used both for the base or matrix and for the inlays inserted into it.
Inset
Training during term time for teachers in British and South African state schools
The school's INSET programme
A heavy investment in INSET is needed
Inlay
To set (pieces of wood or ivory, for example) into a surface, usually at the same level, to form a design.
Inset
Put in (something) as an inset
Washbasins are usually inset into a toilet table to form a vanity unit
Inlay
To decorate by setting in such designs.
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Inset
To set in; insert.
Inlay
To insert (a photograph, for example) within a mat in a book.
Inset
To furnish with an inset.
Inlay
Contrasting material set into a surface in pieces to form a design.
Inset
A small map or illustration set within a larger one.
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Inlay
A design, pattern, or decoration made by inlaying.
Inset
A leaf or group of pages inserted into a publication.
Inlay
(Dentistry) A solid filling, as of gold or porcelain, fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
Inset
A piece of material set into a garment as decoration or trim.
Inlay
To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
Inset
An inflow, as of water.
Inlay
(dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.
Inset
A channel.
Inlay
The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
Inset
(transitive) To set in; infix or implant.
Inlay
(dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
Inset
(transitive) To insert something.
Inlay
The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
Inset
(transitive) To add an inset to something.
Inlay
To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, ivory, mother-of-pearl, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.
Look, how the floor of heavenIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story.
Inset
A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one.
Inlay
Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety; as, ornamented with ivory inlay.
Crocus and hyacinth with rich inlayBroidered the ground.
The sloping of the moonlit swardWas damask work, and deep inlayOf braided blooms.
Inset
Anything inserted.
Inlay
(dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
Inset
A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment.
Inlay
A decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
Inset
To infix.
Inlay
Decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal
Inset
That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.
Inset
One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding;
Inset
A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
Inset
An artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
Inset
A piece of material inset to strengthen or enlarge a garment
Inset
Set or place in
