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Etymology

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    Fromem- +‎bed.

    Pronunciation

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    • verb:
      • IPA(key): /ɪmˈbɛd/,/ɛmˈbɛd/,(regionally)/əmˈbɛd/
      • Audio(US):(file)
      • Rhymes:-ɛd
    • noun:

    Verb

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    embed (third-person singular simple presentembeds,present participleembedding,simple past and past participleembedded)

    1. (transitive) Tolay (something) as in abed; to lay insurroundingmatter; tobed.
      toembed something in clay, mortar, or sand
      • 1851,Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, inThe Life of John Sterling, London:Chapman and Hall, […],→OCLC, part I,page78:
        To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment;[…] butimbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
      • 1859,Charles Darwin,The Origin of Species:
        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 toembed and preserve organic remains.
      • 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, inRailway Magazine, page304:
        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 isembedded in the macadam.
      • 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, inTrains Illustrated, page139:
        In the opposite direction a train got away from Huntly, but becameembedded in the snow at Insch, where the passengers spent the night.
    2. (transitive, by extension) Toinclude (something) in surrounding matter.
      We wanted toembed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
      • 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, inThe Onion AV Club‎[1]:
        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, effectivelyembedding 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.
    3. (transitive, computing) Toencapsulate within another document or data file.
      The instructions showed how toembed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
    4. (mathematics, transitive) To define aone-to-onefunction from oneset to another so that certainproperties of thedomain arepreserved when considering theimage as asubset of thecodomain.

    Derived terms

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    Translations

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    lay as in a bed; lay in surrounding matter
    to include within surrounding content
    mathematics; embed in
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    Noun

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    embed (pluralembeds)

    1. One thingembedded within another, as:
      1. (journalism) 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. An element of anadvertisement, etc. serving as asubliminal message.
        • 1992, Sammy Richard Danna,Advertising and Popular Culture:
          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 includeembeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase.
      3. (computing) A digitalobject embedded within another, which is often adocument.
        • 2006, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison,Blog Design Solutions:
          When you change the content of theseembeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.
        • 2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton,HTML5 Canvas, page265:
          Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 videoembed is simple.
      4. (computing) A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.

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