embed
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
journalism
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em-
Proto-Germanic *badją
Proto-West Germanic *badi
Old English bedd
Middle English bed
English bed
English embed
From em- + bed.
Inflected forms:
form: embeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: embedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: embedded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: embedded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: imbed
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: embeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imbed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
I have given my reasons for believing that … ; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains.
This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.
In the opposite direction a train got away from Huntly, but became embedded in the snow at Insch, where the passengers spent the night.
gloss: To include (something) in surrounding matter.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
After some unnecessary, producer-pleasing expository text, he opens the movie in close-up on the back of a camo combat helmet Sharpied in Vietnam-style graffiti, effectively embedding the viewer with a bedraggled squad of human soldiers—armed with assault rifles, sawed-off shotguns, and crossbows—as they inch toward the stake-wall of Caesar’s compound in an attempt to bust through, only to be met with deadly clumps of Amazonian arrows and smoky flung projectiles.
gloss: To encapsulate within another document or data file.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The torus S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.
gloss: One thing embedded within another, as:
pos: noun
gloss: One thing embedded within another, as:
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: One thing embedded within another, as:
pos: noun
examples: When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.
Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.
gloss: One thing embedded within another, as:
pos: noun
Derived words: cryoembed
disembed
embeddability
embeddable
embedder
embedment
reembed
unembed
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: indlejre i
lang: Dutch
word: inbedden in
lang: Finnish
word: upottaa
lang: French
word: plonger dans
lang: German
word: einbetten
lang: Hungarian
word: beágyaz
lang: Italian
word: inglobare
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: innsvøpt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: innfestet
lang: Romanian
word: îngloba