Embed

//ɪmˈbɛd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One thing embedded within another, as:; An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.
  2. 2
    One thing embedded within another, as:; An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.

    "He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase."

  3. 3
    One thing embedded within another, as:; A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.

    "When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in."

  4. 4
    One thing embedded within another, as:; A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.
Verb
  1. 1
    To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. transitive

    "to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand"

  2. 2
    attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war wordnet
  3. 3
    To include (something) in surrounding matter. broadly, transitive

    "We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it."

  4. 4
    fix or set securely or deeply wordnet
  5. 5
    To encapsulate within another document or data file. transitive

    "The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document."

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  1. 6
    To define a one-to-one function from one set to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain. transitive

    "The torus S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From em- + bed.

Etymology 2

From em- + bed.

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