embed

Plural: embeds

Verb

Verb Forms: embedded, embedding, embeds

• To fix firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass.
• fix or set securely or deeply
• attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
  • "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
• To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
• To include (something) in surrounding matter.
• To encapsulate within another document or data file.
• 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.

Noun

• 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.
• One thing embedded within another, as:
• An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
• One thing embedded within another, as:
• A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.
• One thing embedded within another, as:
• A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.

Examples

• He tried to embed a tricky word in a common prefix, hoping it would go unnoticed.
• The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
• The torus S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.
• to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
• We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.

Synonyms

engraft, imbed, implant, plant

Anagrams of embed