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CEFRC1

/ɪmˈbɛd/

verb

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In plain English

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To include (something) in surrounding matter.
To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
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.

In context

The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand

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To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78
He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase.
1992, Sammy Richard Danna, Advertising and Popular Culture
When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.
2006, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions
Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.
2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas, page 265
I have given my reasons for believing that … ; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains.
1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

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From em- + bed.