embed
/ɪmˈbɛd/ verb C2- To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. · to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
- To include (something) in surrounding matter. · We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
- To encapsulate within another document or data file. · The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
- 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 S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.
He/she/it embeds · Past embedded · Past participle embedded · -ing form embedding
Verb forms
- Base form
- embed
- He/she/it
- embeds
- Past
- embedded
- Past participle
- embedded
- -ing form
- embedding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Anne promptly let go of her candle and plate in her surprise, and plate, candle, and apples crashed together down the cellar ladder and were found at the bottom embedded in melted grease, the next day, by Marilla, who gathered them up and thanked mercy the house hadn’t been set on fire.
The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.
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