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Definition: Embed |
EmbedVerb1. To fix or set securely or deeply: "Kneeling, Cobb planted a sturdy knee in the small of his back,". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Embed \Em*bed"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Embedded; present participle verb or noun Embedding.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Tensioned wires within the beam which are either bonded to the concrete. . . or are held between firm anchorages embedded in each end of the beam. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EmbedSynonyms: engraft (v), imbed (v), implant (v), plant (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Location | Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in. |
Support | Give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Embed |
| English words defined with "embed": bury ♦ Embedding ♦ sink. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "embed": dry-wall finisher ♦ finisher, wallboard and plasterboard ♦ Plain Old Documentation, plug-in ♦ sheetrock taper ♦ taper and bedder, taper and floater. (references) |
| "Embed" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.92% of the time. "Embed" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 72.92% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 27.08% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "embed": embed oneself ♦ to embed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "embed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngulit (affix, implant, impress, imprint, inculcate), ngulis (affix, implant, impress, imprint, inculcate), mbjell (crop, imbed, inseminate, plant, seed, sow, spread), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, take on, thrust, tuck, usher in). (various references) | |
Arabic | رسخ (entrench, establish, firm, fix, implant, instill, plant, print, root, stabilize). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обхващам (comprehend, comprise, encompass, envelop, grip, include, obsess, overcome, overtake, pervade, possess, seize, span, spread, take in), заравям (dig in, earth, earth up, imbed, immerse, inearth, inhume, inter, mould, plunge), закрепявам (attach, brace, set), закрепвам (fix, fixate, imbed, implant, make fast, poise, underset), зазиждам (brick, build up, fill in, fill out, imbed, wall up), забивам (drive in, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, smash, stick, thrust, thrust in), запечатвам (print, seal, seal up, stamp), поставям в (imbed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 埋置 (Embedded, embedding, imbed, Imbedded, Imbedding). (various references) | |
Czech | zapustit (bed in), zakotvit (anchor, berth), vtisknout se, vrýt se, vložit (deposit, imbed, insert, inset, intercalate, interject, invest, plant, put in). (various references) | |
Dutch | inbedden (embedding, to embed, to mount flush). (various references) | |
Farsi | فروکردن (Dig, Implant, Inculcate, Infix, Jam, Poach, Thrust), محاطکردن , نشاندن (Enchase, Imprint, Infix, Seat, Set, Stud), خواباندن (Appease, Stop, Suppress), جادادن (Accommodate, Chamber, Fix, House, Incorporate, Incorporation, Infix, Insert, Receive, Settle, Stable, Stead), دورگرفتن (Encircle, Encompass, Girth), دردرون کارکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | valaa (cast, mould, pour). (various references) | |
French | enrober, enfoncer, enchâsser, sceller, noyer. (various references) | |
German | einbetten (imbed, to embed). (various references) | |
Greek | μπήγω (drive in, drive into, fix, push in, thrust), περιζώνω (begird, belt, cincture, engird, skirt, zone), χώνω μέσα, ενσωματώνω (embody, incorporate), ενθέτω (insert, inset). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשבץ (checker, embroider, fix in, inlay, insert, ornament). (various references) | |
Hungarian | berak (inlay, plait, stevedore, to damascene, to inlay, to kilt, to pleat, to stevedore, to stow, to tuck away, tuck), beágyaz (bed, imbed, make the bed, make up a bed, to bed in, to cushion, to embed, to make the bed, to make up a bed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memancangkan (fasten, stick in). (various references) | |
Italian | incastrare (fit, fit in, fix, get stuck, imbed), incassare (build in, cash, collect, encase, fill, get, occupy, pack, sink, take), affondare (engulf, founder, go under, sink, stick in). (various references) | |
Korean | 끼워넣으십시" (imbed). (various references) | |
Manx | jingey (cram, crowd, crowd up, crowding, crush, jam, let in, move along, press, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, throng, thronging, wedge; indentation, wedging), jeenysal (block, block as wheels, chock up, fasten down, steady, wedge). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | embeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | engastar (enchase, mount, set), embutir (chase, flush, imbed, inlay, mortice, mortise), penetrar (break, fathom, get in, infiltrate, intrude, penetrate, perforate, permeate, reach, stick, strike through, transpierce), firmar (base, cement, clench, confirm, consolidate, enplane, fasten, firm, fix, guy, hoop, implant, joggle, key, nail, plant, rivet, root, secure, set, sign, stabilize, steady, stiffen, underwrite), cravar (affix, cadge, clout, determine, fasten, insert, make fast, nail, pitch, plant, secure, stare at, stick). (various references) | |
Romanian | zidi (brick in, brick up, build, construct, create, erect, immure, wall), fixa într-un perete, încastra (fix). (various references) | |
Russian | встраивать, вставлять (dpb, encase, incase, insert, intercalate, interject, interpose, parenthesize, paste, set, work in, work into), внедрять (engrain, enroot, imbed, implant, impregnate, inculcate, intrude, plant, root), вделывать (encase, imbed), запечатлеть. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ugraditi (build in, imbed). (various references) | |
Spanish | empotrar (build in, let into). (various references) | |
Swedish | omgiva (begird, circle, compass, embrace, encase, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, imbed, incase, inclose, surround, wreathe), omge (begird, circle, compass, embrace, encase, encircle, encircled, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, imbed, incase, inclose, surround, wreathe), inpränta (drive home, imbed, implant, impress, imprint, inculcate), innesluta (embody, embosom, encase, encircle, enclose, envelop, imbed, incase, inclose, lock, seal, shut in, wreathe), inbädda (embosom), förankra (anchor, establish firmly, imbed), borra in (imbed), bädda in (imbed, lap). (various references) | |
Thai | ฝังใจ, ฝังลงไป (bed). (various references) | |
Turkish | yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), oturtmak (clap, fit, gear, indwell, Mount, place, reset, seat, set, sit, sit down, site, slot), kafasına sokmak (beat smth. into smb.'s head, imbue, inculcate, infix, infuse, inseminate, put smb. in mind of, whip), gömmek (Bury, commit to the ground, dig in, entomb, immerse, inhume, inter, intomb, lay to rest, let in, sink, sink into). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уставляти (imbed, inlet, insert, inset, intercalate, put, put in, sandwich, wad, work in), укопувати (imbed, sink), вправляти (exercise, imbed), закарбовуватися (imbed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, defossus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "embed": embedded, embedding, embeddings, embedment, embedments, embeds. (additional references) | |
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"Embed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bembe, ebadd, ebm, Emb, embbed, embde, Embden, embe, embedd, Embedgph, embel, Embeth, Embez, Embo, Embrey, Embu, embue, emed, emmbed, emme, emnet, empeed, Emtb, Esbcd, Etbe, fembot, mebe, oemed, umbudi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "embed" (pronounced embe"d) |
| 4 | -m b e" d | imbed. |
| 3 | -b e" d | abed, bed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-m" | |
-1 letter: deem, deme, meed. | |
-2 letters: bed, bee, deb, dee, eme, med. | |
-3 letters: be, de, ed, em, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-m" | |
+1 letter: beamed, embeds. | |
+2 letters: beadmen, bedeman, bedemen, bedmate, bedtime, beldame, bemired, bemixed, bemused, benamed, berimed, breamed, embayed, embowed, embrued, umbeled, umbered. | |
+3 letters: beadsmen, becalmed, becrimed, bedamned, bedesman, bedesmen, bedframe, bedimmed, bedimple, bedmaker, bedmates, bedtimes, bedumbed, begrimed, beldames, bemadden, bemeaned, bemisted, bemoaned, bemocked, bemuddle, benumbed, berhymed, beseemed, beshamed, beslimed, besmiled, besmoked, besmudge, bewormed, bodement, bumpered, cambered, cumbered, demobbed, embalmed, embanked, embarked, embarred, embedded, emblazed, emblemed, embodied, embodier, embodies, embolden, emborder, embosked, embossed, embraced, embruted, endameba, enjambed, entombed, enwombed, flambeed, homebred, imbedded, limbered, lumbered, membered, mendable, numbered, rebeldom, recombed, reembody, timbered, trembled, umbelled. | |
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