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verb · 2 syllables · /ɪm'bɛd/

EMBED

What does "EMBED" mean?

To fix something firmly within a surrounding mass, structure, or larger whole.

Meanings

  1. To set or fix firmly into a surrounding material. The thorn was embedded deep in his thumb.
  2. To insert content (video, code, data) into a document or web page. She embedded the chart directly in the report. technical
  3. To assign a journalist to travel with a military unit. The reporter was embedded with the convoy for six weeks.
  4. 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.

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