Associations to the word «Embed»

Wiktionary

EMBED, verb. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
EMBED, verb. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
EMBED, verb. (computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).
EMBED, 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.
EMBED, noun. An embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.
EMBED, noun. An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
EMBED, noun. (computing) An item embedded in another document.

Dictionary definition

EMBED, verb. Fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum".
EMBED, verb. Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky