embed
/ɪmˈbɛd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.94 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English embed From em- + bed.