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 $$S^1\times S^1$$ can be embedded in $$\mathbb{R}^3$$ .

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