embedimbedv.

/ɛmˈbɛd/

/ɪmˈbɛd/

Etymology: < en- prefix¹, in- prefix¹ + bed n. (Embed is now the more common form.)

a. transitive. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass of some solid material. Also reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > in a surrounding mass

enclosec1386

umbewendc1440

bed1587

to bed in1778

embed1778

α.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. viii. 62 Calcareous substances are in general found where flints are embedded.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iv. 147 Leeches..embed themselves in the earth.

1879 J. Timbs in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 6/2 Iron girders embedded in brickwork and cement.

1882 Standard 5 Sept. 6/1 The workman takes one diamond and embeds it in heated cement.

β. 1778 J. Whitehurst Orig. State of Earth xii. 90 Marine exuviæ found imbedded near the tops of mountains.1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xxiv. 302 Masses of the same sort of substance, lying as it were imbedded in the brain.1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 51 If a crystal all around crystalised is contained in another mineral, it is said to be imbedded.1866 D. Livingstone Jrnl. (1873) I. i. 29 Thus..insects are..imbedded in the gum-copal.1950 C. R. Hine Machine Tools for Engineers xii. 240 The fine, sharp abrasive particles become imbedded in the lap and it is ready for use.1972 Physics Bull. May 284/3 Indeed, the liquid crystalline properties inherent in this bilayer structure are almost certainly important for the organization of molecules imbedded in the membrane as well as for controlling transport through it.

b. figurative, spec. in Linguistics and Science.

ΚΠ

α.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. xiii. 169 The light..embedded, as it were, in vast masses of shade.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. ii. 198 The sensation is embedded in a movement.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 79 The winged seeds of his thought embed themselves in the memory.

1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 346 When one sentence contains another, the latter sentence will be said to be ‘embedded’.

β. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 240 The same optical impression..may..be imbedded in a great many different muscular impressions.1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 14 Parts of these..writings are imbedded in the text of the Book.1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 4/4 Some of the divergences between Freud and Jung are, however, better attributed to the fact that they chose opposed solutions to the problem of how to imbed the idea of the unconscious into already existing traditions of Western thought.1971 Nature 18 June 437/2 It will be noted that the regions of the three brightest sources are further imbedded in very dense areas; in fact, they are close to the centroids of the Coma cluster.1971 M. B. Powell & G. Higman Finite Simple Groups iii. 174 The process simply imbeds one Chevalley group in another.

c. transferred. Also in wider senses suggested by the etymology.

ΚΠ

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 471 A more considerable stream, flowing deeply imbedded between lofty banks.

1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 11 Through whose [Typho's] heart Etna drives her roots of stone To imbed them in the sea.

1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 673 Nemi, imbedded in wood, Nemi inurned in the hill!

2. Said of the surrounding mass of material: To enclose firmly. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > enclose in a receptacle or surrounding mass > in or as a surrounding mass

immure1675

embed1852

1852 I. Taylor Restoration of Belief (1855) ii. 215 Those Seven Epistles..imbed our problem.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvi. 210 Fields of new ice..imbedded them in a single night.

1887 Harper's Mag. May 955 A soft sweetish pulp..embeds the two beans.

Derivatives

emˈbedded adj.

ΚΠ

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Others ascribed the imbedded fossil bodies to some plastic power which resided in the earth in the early ages of the world.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 113 The elegant forms of the imbedded shells.

1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 360 An embedded compared adjective has the widest possible scope in any given sentence.

1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 20 The prepositional phrase in ‘a pipeful of good tobacco’ is an embedded adverbial group.

1968 Language 44 32 Any rules that are not concerned with embedded sentences..always treat a constituent sentence as an unanalysable unit.

emˈbeddedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > into a surrounding mass > fact of being

embeddedness1922

1922 A. N. Whitehead Princ. Relativity ii. 15 Fact..is not the sum of factors; it is rather the concreteness (or, embeddedness) of factors, and the concreteness of an inexhaustible relatedness among inexhaustible relata.

1937 Mind 46 83 When we know how to deal with the erst-while novelty, when we have ‘got it taped’, it falls into embeddedness and becomes, or engenders, a part of ourselves.

1952 T. Parsons Social Syst. 361 Philosophical investigation, as distinguished from the general imbeddedness of philosophical problems..in any system of action.

1963 Economist 7 Sept. 832/1 Man's social embeddedness.

emˈbedding n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > into a surrounding mass

embedding1863

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > firmly

embedding1863

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 8 I have spoken of the embedding of organic bodies and human remains in peat.

1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith vii. 315 Smelting out the pure gold of revealed truth from the imbedding ore.

1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 348 Together the three embedding rules produce all sentences that contain adjectives and exclude ungrammatical sentences.

Draft additions 1993

d. Mathematics. To represent (a graph) by points and lines in a given surface in such a way that no two edges intersect; to incorporate (a mathematical structure) in a larger structure while preserving all important structural features, esp. by the use of a function which is an embedding. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > create a graph [verb (transitive)] > modify a graph

extrapolate1874

smooth1889

embed1922

the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > properties of

gradient1897

embed1922

embeddability1936

reachability1959

1922 H. L. Brose tr. Weyl's Space, Time, Matter ii. 89 The geometry of the surface deals with the inner measure relations of the surface that belong to it independently of the manner in which it is embedded in space.

1935 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 931 This paper deals with an extension of the Gauss formulas of a surface imbedded in ordinary space to apply to an m-dimensional variety imbedded in an n-dimensional euclidean space.

1941 Birkhoff & MacLane Survey Mod. Algebra 47 The domain J can be embedded as a subdomain in a field R, each element of which is a quotient of integers of J.

1961 Jrnl. Math. & Mech. 10 517 (heading) On imbedding graphs in the sphere.

1964 IEEE Trans. Electronic Computers 13 395/2 For a base language L, and an augmented programming language L′, if L is a proper subset of L′ and if any program written strictly in L has the same interpretation within both L and L′, then we say L is embedded in L′.

1971 Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups iii. 174 The process simply imbeds one Chevalley group in another.

1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 270 The larger the subcategory of  which one seeks to embed in a quasitopos, the worse the embedding becomes.

Draft additions December 2006

transitive. Originally U.S. Military. To attach (a journalist) to a military unit to report on a conflict. Also intransitive: (of a journalist) to be attached to a military unit in this way. Chiefly with with. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1995 Los Angeles Times 23 Dec. a13/1 In the jargon of the Army, I'm ‘embedded’ with the troops: I go where they go, share their quarters, eat their meals... Before the trip, Army officials said only a small number of reporters were being allowed to ‘embed’.

1996 Washington Post 8 May a24/5 We are facing some resistance to embedding reporters in units... It was not reasonable to expect sergeants, privates.., anybody in this unit, to be on guard and talking on the record, 24 hours a day.

2004 N.Y. Mag. 7 June 36/1 Just before the bombs began falling on Baghdad, Miller embedded with Mobile Exploitation Team (MET) Alpha—the unit charged with scouring Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.

2005 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 17 In future hurricane alerts, expect journalists to be ‘embedded’ with the National Guard like they were in Iraq.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	embed
释义	embedimbedv. /ɛmˈbɛd//ɪmˈbɛd/ Etymology: < en- prefix¹, in- prefix¹ + bed n. (Embed is now the more common form.) 1. a. transitive. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass of some solid material. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > in a surrounding mass enclosec1386 umbewendc1440 bed1587 to bed in1778 embed1778 α. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. viii. 62 Calcareous substances are in general found where flints are embedded. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iv. 147 Leeches..embed themselves in the earth. 1879 J. Timbs in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 6/2 Iron girders embedded in brickwork and cement. 1882 Standard 5 Sept. 6/1 The workman takes one diamond and embeds it in heated cement. β. 1778 J. Whitehurst Orig. State of Earth xii. 90 Marine exuviæ found imbedded near the tops of mountains.1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xxiv. 302 Masses of the same sort of substance, lying as it were imbedded in the brain.1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 51 If a crystal all around crystalised is contained in another mineral, it is said to be imbedded.1866 D. Livingstone Jrnl. (1873) I. i. 29 Thus..insects are..imbedded in the gum-copal.1950 C. R. Hine Machine Tools for Engineers xii. 240 The fine, sharp abrasive particles become imbedded in the lap and it is ready for use.1972 Physics Bull. May 284/3 Indeed, the liquid crystalline properties inherent in this bilayer structure are almost certainly important for the organization of molecules imbedded in the membrane as well as for controlling transport through it. b. figurative, spec. in Linguistics and Science. ΚΠ α. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. xiii. 169 The light..embedded, as it were, in vast masses of shade. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. ii. 198 The sensation is embedded in a movement. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 79 The winged seeds of his thought embed themselves in the memory. 1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 346 When one sentence contains another, the latter sentence will be said to be ‘embedded’. β. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 240 The same optical impression..may..be imbedded in a great many different muscular impressions.1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 14 Parts of these..writings are imbedded in the text of the Book.1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 4/4 Some of the divergences between Freud and Jung are, however, better attributed to the fact that they chose opposed solutions to the problem of how to imbed the idea of the unconscious into already existing traditions of Western thought.1971 Nature 18 June 437/2 It will be noted that the regions of the three brightest sources are further imbedded in very dense areas; in fact, they are close to the centroids of the Coma cluster.1971 M. B. Powell & G. Higman Finite Simple Groups iii. 174 The process simply imbeds one Chevalley group in another. c. transferred. Also in wider senses suggested by the etymology. ΚΠ 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 471 A more considerable stream, flowing deeply imbedded between lofty banks. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 11 Through whose [Typho's] heart Etna drives her roots of stone To imbed them in the sea. 1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 673 Nemi, imbedded in wood, Nemi inurned in the hill! 2. Said of the surrounding mass of material: To enclose firmly. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > enclose in a receptacle or surrounding mass > in or as a surrounding mass immure1675 embed1852 1852 I. Taylor Restoration of Belief (1855) ii. 215 Those Seven Epistles..imbed our problem. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvi. 210 Fields of new ice..imbedded them in a single night. 1887 Harper's Mag. May 955 A soft sweetish pulp..embeds the two beans. Derivatives emˈbedded adj. ΚΠ 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Others ascribed the imbedded fossil bodies to some plastic power which resided in the earth in the early ages of the world. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 113 The elegant forms of the imbedded shells. 1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 360 An embedded compared adjective has the widest possible scope in any given sentence. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 20 The prepositional phrase in ‘a pipeful of good tobacco’ is an embedded adverbial group. 1968 Language 44 32 Any rules that are not concerned with embedded sentences..always treat a constituent sentence as an unanalysable unit. emˈbeddedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > into a surrounding mass > fact of being embeddedness1922 1922 A. N. Whitehead Princ. Relativity ii. 15 Fact..is not the sum of factors; it is rather the concreteness (or, embeddedness) of factors, and the concreteness of an inexhaustible relatedness among inexhaustible relata. 1937 Mind 46 83 When we know how to deal with the erst-while novelty, when we have ‘got it taped’, it falls into embeddedness and becomes, or engenders, a part of ourselves. 1952 T. Parsons Social Syst. 361 Philosophical investigation, as distinguished from the general imbeddedness of philosophical problems..in any system of action. 1963 Economist 7 Sept. 832/1 Man's social embeddedness. emˈbedding n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > into a surrounding mass embedding1863 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > firmly embedding1863 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 8 I have spoken of the embedding of organic bodies and human remains in peat. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith vii. 315 Smelting out the pure gold of revealed truth from the imbedding ore. 1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 348 Together the three embedding rules produce all sentences that contain adjectives and exclude ungrammatical sentences. Draft additions 1993 d. Mathematics. To represent (a graph) by points and lines in a given surface in such a way that no two edges intersect; to incorporate (a mathematical structure) in a larger structure while preserving all important structural features, esp. by the use of a function which is an embedding. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > create a graph [verb (transitive)] > modify a graph extrapolate1874 smooth1889 embed1922 the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > properties of gradient1897 embed1922 embeddability1936 reachability1959 1922 H. L. Brose tr. Weyl's Space, Time, Matter ii. 89 The geometry of the surface deals with the inner measure relations of the surface that belong to it independently of the manner in which it is embedded in space. 1935 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 931 This paper deals with an extension of the Gauss formulas of a surface imbedded in ordinary space to apply to an m-dimensional variety imbedded in an n-dimensional euclidean space. 1941 Birkhoff & MacLane Survey Mod. Algebra 47 The domain J can be embedded as a subdomain in a field R, each element of which is a quotient of integers of J. 1961 Jrnl. Math. & Mech. 10 517 (heading) On imbedding graphs in the sphere. 1964 IEEE Trans. Electronic Computers 13 395/2 For a base language L, and an augmented programming language L′, if L is a proper subset of L′ and if any program written strictly in L has the same interpretation within both L and L′, then we say L is embedded in L′. 1971 Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups iii. 174 The process simply imbeds one Chevalley group in another. 1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 270 The larger the subcategory of  which one seeks to embed in a quasitopos, the worse the embedding becomes. Draft additions December 2006 transitive. Originally U.S. Military. To attach (a journalist) to a military unit to report on a conflict. Also intransitive: (of a journalist) to be attached to a military unit in this way. Chiefly with with. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1995 Los Angeles Times 23 Dec. a13/1 In the jargon of the Army, I'm ‘embedded’ with the troops: I go where they go, share their quarters, eat their meals... Before the trip, Army officials said only a small number of reporters were being allowed to ‘embed’. 1996 Washington Post 8 May a24/5 We are facing some resistance to embedding reporters in units... It was not reasonable to expect sergeants, privates.., anybody in this unit, to be on guard and talking on the record, 24 hours a day. 2004 N.Y. Mag. 7 June 36/1 Just before the bombs began falling on Baghdad, Miller embedded with Mobile Exploitation Team (MET) Alpha—the unit charged with scouring Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. 2005 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 17 In future hurricane alerts, expect journalists to be ‘embedded’ with the National Guard like they were in Iraq. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1778
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