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em⋅bed

  [em-bed] verb, -bed⋅ded, -bed⋅ding.
Use embed in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to fix into a surrounding mass: to embed stones in cement.
2. to surround tightly or firmly; envelop or enclose: Thick cotton padding embedded the precious vase in its box.
3. to incorporate or contain as an essential part or characteristic: A love of color is embedded in all of her paintings.
4. Histology. to infiltrate (a biological tissue) with molten paraffin or other plastic material that later solidifies, enabling the preparation to be sliced very thin for viewing under a microscope.
5. Mathematics. to map a set into another set.
6. Grammar. to insert (a construction, as a phrase or clause) into a larger construction, as a clause or sentence.
–verb (used without object)
7. to be or become fixed or incorporated, as into a surrounding mass: Glass embeds in the soft tar of the road.
Also, imbed.

Origin:
1770–80; em- 1 + bed

Related forms:
em⋅bed⋅ment, noun
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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em·bed   (ěm-běd')   
v.   em·bed·ded also im·bed·ded, em·bed·ding also im·bed·ding, em·beds also im·beds

v.   tr.
  1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale.
  2. To enclose snugly or firmly.
  3. To cause to be an integral part of a surrounding whole: "a minor accuracy embedded in a larger untruth" (Ian Jack).
  4. To assign (a journalist) to travel with a military unit during an armed conflict.
  5. Biology To enclose (a specimen) in a supporting material before sectioning for microscopic examination.
v.   intr.
To become embedded: The harpoon struck but did not embed.
n.   (ěm'běd')
One that is embedded, especially a journalist who is assigned to an active military unit.
em·bed'ment n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry:  embed
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See embedded journalist
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Language Translation for : embed
Spanish: clavar, hincar, incrustar, encajar,
German: eingraben,
Japanese: はめ込む
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Embed

Em*bed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Embedding.] [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. Imbed.] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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embed 
1778, from en- + bed. Originally a geological term, in ref. to fossils in rock; fig. sense is from 1835; meaning "place a journalist within a military unit at war" is 2003.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: em·bed
Variant: also im·bed /im-'bed/
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: em·bed·ded also im·bed·ded; em·bed·ding also im·bed·ding
: to prepare (a microscopy specimen) for sectioning byinfiltrating with and enclosing in a supporting substance —em·bed·ment /-'bed-m&nt/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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