EMBED
What does "EMBED" mean?
To fix something firmly within a surrounding mass, structure, or larger whole.
Meanings
- To set or fix firmly into a surrounding material. The thorn was embedded deep in his thumb.
- To insert content (video, code, data) into a document or web page. She embedded the chart directly in the report. technical
- To assign a journalist to travel with a military unit. The reporter was embedded with the convoy for six weeks.
- A piece of inserted content or a vector representation in machine learning. The model converts each word into an embed of numbers. technical
Word origin
From 'en-' / 'em-' (to put into) plus 'bed', literally 'to lay in a bed'; first recorded in the early 19th century in geology, for fossils set in rock.
Remember it
EMBED contains 'BED': to embed is to tuck a thing into its bed and let it stay.
A little poem
The fossil sleeps where the soft mud turned to stone-
a borrowed bed it never leaves alone.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why is a fossil the laziest tenant? It embedded itself in the rock and hasn't paid bed rent in a million years.
What it teaches
What you embed deeply is hard to remove later - choose your foundations before they set.
Quick facts
What does EMBED mean?
To fix something firmly within a surrounding mass, structure, or larger whole.
Is EMBED a valid word?
Yes — EMBED is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EMBED?
EMBED has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EMBED come from?
From 'en-' / 'em-' (to put into) plus 'bed', literally 'to lay in a bed'; first recorded in the early 19th century in geology, for fossils set in rock.
What can EMBED teach us?
What you embed deeply is hard to remove later - choose your foundations before they set.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.