to fix into a surrounding mass: to embed stones in cement.
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to surround tightly or firmly; envelop or enclose: Thick cotton padding embedded the precious vase in its box.
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to incorporate or contain as an essential part or characteristic: A love of color is embedded in all of her paintings.
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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.
Grammar. to insert (a construction, as a phrase or clause) into a larger construction, as a clause or sentence.
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to assign (a journalist) to travel with a military unit or a political campaign: The photojournalists were embedded in Afghanistan with U.S. troops.We've embedded a reporter with each of the presidential candidates.
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Digital Technology. to place (text, images, sound, or computer code) in a computer file, HTML document, software program, or electronic device: how to embed videos on your Web site;embedded software in cars and airplanes.
to be or become fixed or incorporated, as into a surrounding mass: Glass embeds in the soft tar of the road.
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Embeddedis always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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.