embed

verb

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

   “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.”

2. (broadly, transitive)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.”

   “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.”

3. (transitive)To encapsulate within another document or data file.

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

4. (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.

   “The torus S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.”

noun

1. One thing embedded within another, as:
2. One thing embedded within another, as:

   “He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase.”

3. One thing embedded within another, as:

   “When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.”

   “Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.”

4. One thing embedded within another, as: