Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
EMBED
embed
(verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; “The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division”
implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant
(verb) fix or set securely or deeply; “He planted a knee in the back of his opponent”; “The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
embed (third-person singular simple present embeds, present participle embedding, simple past and past participle embedded)
(transitive) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
(transitive, by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
(transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
(mathematics, 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 can be embedded in .
Noun
embed (plural embeds)
An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.
An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
(computing) An item embedded in another document.
Source: Wiktionary
Em*bed", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Embedding.] Etym: [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. Imbed.]
Definition: To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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