What does embed mean?

Definitions for embed
ɛmˈbɛdem·bed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plantverb

    fix or set securely or deeply

    "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

  2. embedverb

    attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war

    "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"

Wiktionary

  1. embednoun

    Short for embedded reporter/journalist, a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.

  2. embedverb

    To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

  3. embedverb

    To include in surrounding matter.

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

  4. embedverb

    To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).

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

  5. embedverb

    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.

    The torus uE000127956uE001 can be embedded in uE000127957uE001.

ChatGPT

  1. embed

    To embed refers to the act of incorporating or integrating one item or object firmly and deeply within a second item or object, whether this is in a physical context, a digital context, or within a particular system or process. This can also refer to making something an integral part of a whole.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Embedverb

    to lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand

  2. Etymology: [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. Imbed.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Embed

    em-bed′, Imbed, im-, v.t. to place in a mass of matter: to lay, as in a bed.—n. Embed′ment, the act of embedding: state of being embedded.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of embed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of embed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of embed in a Sentence

  1. Olivier Toupet:

    Sand is a big concern, if we drive downhill into a dune, we could embed ourselves into it and not be able to get back out.

  2. Howard Koh:

    Health starts with where you live, labor, learn, play and pray, what that means is that we need to embed a culture of health through all sectors of society.

  3. Angela Merkel:

    The people who experienced World War Two, the last true global catastrophe, are dying out and are no longer there as eyewitnesses, they learned from that terrible experience not to embed emnity but that you had to try and build friendships with each other.

  4. Rio CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques:

    Chris has helped embed a disciplined focus on costs and capital allocation.

  5. Ben Perkins:

    As speeds improve, this kind of real-time product design, development and manufacture is going to be increasingly scaled, don't look at your customer base today but look at them tomorrow and think about how you need to embed these approaches and technologies ... in your organization now.

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