Embed Meaning
/ɪmˈbɛd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
verbTo include (something) in surrounding matter.
Sentence Examples
I wish I could figure out how to embed a YouTube video.
How can I embed the debt clock on my Web site?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The journalist decided to ____ the code snippet directly into the article.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The journalist decided to ____ herself with the soldiers at the front.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English embed From em- + bed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam."
— 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 304:
"In the opposite direction a train got away from Huntly, but became embedded in the snow at Insch, where the passengers spent the night."
— 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
"After some unnecessary, producer-pleasing expository text, he opens the movie in close-up on the back of a camo combat helmet Sharpied in Vietnam-style graffiti, effectively embedding the viewer with a bedraggled squad of human soldiers—armed with assault rifles, sawed-off shotguns, and crossbows—as they inch toward the stake-wall of Caesar’s compound in an attempt to bust through, only to be met with deadly clumps of Amazonian arrows and smoky flung projectiles."
— 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The journalist decided to ____ the code snippet directly into the article.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The journalist decided to ____ herself with the soldiers at the front.