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      embed
      noun
      (journalism) 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.
      (computing) A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.
      (computing) A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.
      One thing embedded within another, as:
      An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
      verb
      (transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
      (transitive, by extension) To include (something) in surrounding matter.
      (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
      (mathematics, transitive) 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.
      Roots
      inem- · Latin · in, intobeddbed- · Old English · bed, resting place
      Synonyms for embed
      implantnengraftv
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      Where does embed come from?

      The word embed breaks down into 2 roots of Latin and Old English origin: em-, from Latin in (“in, into”); and bed, from Old English bedd (“bed, resting place”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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