embed /ˈɛm.bɛd/noun 5/ɪmˈbɛd/ verb 4forms 3 noun5 •One thing embedded within another. •An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate. •An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message. •A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in. — 2006 •A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device. embed /ɪmˈbɛd/ verb4 •To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.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 •To include (something) in surrounding matter.We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it. •To encapsulate within another document or data file.The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document. •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. formsembedded · embedding · embeds