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.
7.
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.
8.
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 website;
embedded software in cars and airplanes.
verb (used without object), embedded, embedding.
9.
to be or become fixed or incorporated, as into a surrounding mass:
Glass embeds in the soft tar of the road.
noun
10.
a journalist who is embedded with a military unit or a political campaign.
11.
a period of time during which a journalist is embedded.
We stop at a spot where nine timbers are embedded in the ground.
Paul would tell me later that he felt different from before, newly embedded in himself, as if trapped in statuary.
This year around 10 billion microprocessors will be sold, embedded in anything from computers to coffee-makers.
Listen to the podcast on this embedded player.
Seashells are embedded like mosaics into the stucco walls on the Vultaggio property.
By virtue of his troubled life and a single decent gesture, he is embedded in the American conscience.
Clear gifs are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of Web sites.
The waves reflect off a metal screen embedded in the glass.
From horizon to horizon, the city was embedded in a lush, verdant blanket.
He leisurely examined the embedded wheel, and cast an eye along the road ahead.
British Dictionary definitions for embedded
embed
/ɪmˈbɛd/
verb -beds, -bedding, -bedded
1.
(usually foll by in) to fix or become fixed firmly and deeply in a surrounding solid mass: to embed a nail in wood
2.
(transitive) to surround closely: hard rock embeds the roots
3.
(transitive) to fix or retain (a thought, idea, etc) in the mind
4.
(often foll by with) to assign a journalist or be assigned as one to accompany an active military unit
5.
(transitive) (grammar) to insert (a subordinate clause) into a sentence
noun (ˈɪmbɛd)
6.
a journalist accompanying an active military unit
Derived Forms
embedment, noun
Word Origin and History for embedded
embed
v.
1778, from em- + bed (n.). Originally a geological term, in reference to fossils in rock; figurative sense is from 1835; meaning "place a journalist within a military unit at war" is 2003. Related: Embedded; embedding.