Imbed

  

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Imbed

Definition: Imbed

Imbed

Verb

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Imbed

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Imbed

Synonyms: embed (v), engraft (v), implant (v), plant (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Imbed

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Imbed

English words defined with "imbed": EmbowelImbedded, ImbeddingTo let in. (references)
Specialty definitions using "imbed": artificial-marble workerCANDLE MOLDER, MACHINEfloor grinderGLASS-BLOWING-LATHE OPERATORMOLD MAKERTERRAZZO WORKER. (references)

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Modern Translation: Imbed

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Imbed

Derivations

Words beginning with "imbed": imbedded, imbedding, imbeds. (additional references)

Words ending with "imbed": climbed, limbed, outclimbed, upclimbed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Imbed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "imbed" (pronounced i'mbe"d)
4-m b e" dembed.
3-b e" dabed, bed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Imbed

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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