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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale.
  • v. To enclose snugly or firmly.
  • v. To cause to be an integral part of a surrounding whole: "a minor accuracy embedded in a larger untruth” ( Ian Jack).
  • v. To assign (a journalist) to travel with a military unit during an armed conflict.
  • v. Biology To enclose (a specimen) in a supporting material before sectioning for microscopic examination.
  • verb-intransitive. To become embedded: The harpoon struck but did not embed.
  • n. One that is embedded, especially a journalist who is assigned to an active military unit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
  • v. To include in surrounding matter.
  • v. To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).
  • v. 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.
  • n. Short for embedded reporter/journalist, a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lay in or as in a bed; lay in surrounding matter: as, to embed a thing in clay or sand.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. fix or set securely or deeply
  • v. attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
  • Verb Form
    embedded    embedding    embeded    embeds   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    group    aggroup   
    Cross Reference
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    embedding    embedded   
    Form
    embedded    embedding   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bed    impaste    enlay   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ed    Fed    Fred    Freda    Ged    Head    Jed    Med    Ned    Read   
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