Meaning

(transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
2. (transitive, by extension) To include (something) in surrounding matter.
3. (transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
4. (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.
5. One thing embedded within another, as:

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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

Word Forms

• embeds
• embedding
• embedded
• imbed

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When Should You Use Embed?

Use embed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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