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Definition of Embed
1. Verb. Fix or set securely or deeply. "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
Generic synonyms: Enter, Infix, Insert, Introduce
Specialized synonyms: Pot, Nest, Bury, Sink
Derivative terms: Implant, Implantation, Implantation, Implantation, Planting
2. Verb. Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war. "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
Definition of Embed
1. v. t. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Definition of Embed
1. Verb. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand. ¹
2. Verb. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter. ¹
3. Verb. (computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system). ¹
4. Verb. (mathematics transitive) 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. ¹
5. Noun. Short for ''embedded reporter/journalist'', a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embed
1. to fix firmly into a surrounding mass [v -BEDDED, -BEDDING, -BEDS]
Medical Definition of Embed
1. To surround a pathological or histological specimen with a firm and sometimes hard medium such as paraffin, wax, celloidin, or a resin, in order to make possible the cutting of thin sections for microscopic examination. Synonym: imbed. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embed
Literary usage of Embed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature and Properties of Soils: A College Text of Edaphology by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Harry Oliver Buckman (1922)
"It is well to embed the end tile in a masonry or concrete wall. The last eight
or ten feet of tile may even be replaced by a galvanized iron pipe or ..."