EMBEDDING

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


Noun

embedding (plural embeddings)

The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.

(mathematics) A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure).

Verb

embedding

present participle of embed

Source: Wiktionary


EMBED

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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Word of the Day

26 December 2024

CHATTEL

(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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