单词 | embed |
释义 | embed (once / 1973 pages) v The verb embed means to implant something or someone — like to embed a stone into a garden pathway or to embed a journalist in a military unit. When you stick something firmly within a particular environment, you are embedding it. If you are an archeologist, you might spend a lot of your time looking for pottery shards embedded in the earth. If you are a web site designer, you might embed video clips on web pages. And if your newspaper is covering a war overseas, you might consider embedding a journalist in a military troop in order to have a source reporting back from the front lines. WORD FAMILYembed: embedded, embedding, embeds USAGE EXAMPLES“In simple terms, that’s because the middle class is largely embedded in the party-state,” he said. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) I was a chubby child, not good at games, unpopular with peers, and embedded in a dysfunctional family. New York Times(May 02, 2016) “Models are opinions embedded in mathematics,” she writes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v fix or set securely or deeply Syn|Hypo|Hyper engraft, imbed, implant, plant pot plant in a pot nestfit together or fit inside bury, sinkembed deeply repotput in a new, usually larger, pot countersink, setinsert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) enter, infix, insert, introduce put or introduce into something 2v attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division Hyper aggroup, group form a group or group together |
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