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.
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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