Embed
[ɪm'bed;em-] or [ɪm'bɛd]
Definition
(verb.) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; 'The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division'.
Editor: Ned--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Typist: Sadie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Bed.
Inputed by Dennis
Definition
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.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Embedded in some soft thick substance are the insulated wires in which heat is to be developed, and over this is placed a covering of felt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The boring bit is a steel thimble about four inches in length, having two rows of Brazilian black diamonds firmly embedded therein, the edges projecting slightly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Suppose a 600-pound bowlder which is embedded in the ground is needed for the tower of a building. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It signifies conscious transfer of a meaning embedded in past experience for use in a new one. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Inputed by Harvey