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Definition: Imbed |
ImbedVerb1. 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: Imbed \Im*bed"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Imbedded; present participle verb or noun Imbedding.]. (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: ImbedSynonyms: embed (v), engraft (v), implant (v), plant (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insertion | Imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak; (water); dip, plunge. |
Interiority | Place within, keep within; inclose; (circumscribe); intern; imbed; (insert). |
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: Imbed |
| English words defined with "imbed": Embowel ♦ Imbedded, Imbedding ♦ To let in. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imbed": artificial-marble worker ♦ CANDLE MOLDER, MACHINE ♦ floor grinder ♦ GLASS-BLOWING-LATHE OPERATOR ♦ MOLD MAKER ♦ TERRAZZO WORKER. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "imbed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbjell (crop, embed, inseminate, plant, seed, sow, spread). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, crush, fill in, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), набивам (jacket, lambaste, ram, wedge, whop), заравям (dig in, earth, earth up, embed, immerse, inearth, inhume, inter, mould, plunge), закрепвам (embed, fix, fixate, implant, make fast, poise, underset), зазиждам (brick, build up, embed, fill in, fill out, wall up), поставям в (embed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 埋置 (Embed, Embedded, embedding, Imbedded, Imbedding). (various references) | |
Czech | vložit (deposit, embed, insert, inset, intercalate, interject, invest, plant, put in). (various references) | |
French | noyer, enrober. (various references) | |
German | einbetten (embed, to embed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | beágyaz (bed, embed, 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) | |
Italian | incastrare (embed, fit, fit in, fix, get stuck). (various references) | |
Korean | 끼워넣으십시요 (Embed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imbeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incrustar (crust, encrust, fur, ingraft, inlay), encastoar (set), embutir (chase, embed, flush, inlay, mortice, mortise). (various references) | |
Russian | внедрять (embed, engrain, enroot, implant, impregnate, inculcate, intrude, plant, root), вделывать (embed, encase). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uklopiti (fit into, get into), ugraditi (build in, embed). (various references) | |
Spanish | tomar a (assume, cup, tote, walk off). (various references) | |
Swedish | inpränta (drive home, embed, implant, impress, imprint, inculcate), innesluta (embed, embody, embosom, encase, encircle, enclose, envelop, incase, inclose, lock, seal, shut in, wreathe), omgiva (begird, circle, compass, embed, embrace, encase, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, incase, inclose, surround, wreathe), omge (begird, circle, compass, embed, embrace, encase, encircle, encircled, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, incase, inclose, surround, wreathe), förankra (anchor, embed, establish firmly), borra in (embed), bädda in (embed, lap). (various references) | |
Thai | ฝัง (embed in, inlay, lodge). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уставляти (embed, inlet, insert, inset, intercalate, put, put in, sandwich, wad, work in), укопувати (embed, sink), вправляти (embed, exercise), виставляти (obtrude, put up, send in, set forth, show), випроваджувати (pack off, show out), закопувати (earth), закарбовуватися (embed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imbed": imbedded, imbedding, imbeds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "imbed": climbed, limbed, outclimbed, upclimbed. (additional references) | |
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"Imbed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ibew, ibm-er, imb, imba, imbid, imbide, imbit, imbred, imed, imet, imex, immed, inbend, inbet, inebeg, Mibei, midbody, umbudi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imbed" (pronounced i'mbe"d) |
| 4 | -m b e" d | embed. |
| 3 | -b e" d | abed, bed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bedim. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-m" | |
-1 letter: bide, dime, idem. | |
-2 letters: bed, bid, deb, dib, die, dim, med, mib, mid. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, de, ed, em, id, me, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-m" | |
+1 letter: bedims, ibidem, imbeds, imbued, limbed. | |
+2 letters: ameboid, bedtime, bemired, bemixed, berimed, birdmen, brimmed, bromide, climbed, imbibed, imbrued, wimbled. | |
+3 letters: amberoid, amoeboid, bdellium, becrimed, bedimmed, bedimple, bedtimes, begrimed, bemisted, beslimed, besmiled, biformed, birdlime, bromides, bromized, combined, dimmable, divebomb, embodied, embodier, embodies, embryoid, gimbaled, imbalmed, imbarked, imbedded, imblazed, imbodied, imbodies, imbolden, imbruted, intombed, limbered, mandible, nimbused, semibald, sublimed, timbered, unimbued. | |
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