Usually means: Incorporate an element within another.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word embed:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. embed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. embed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embed: The Word Spy
  4. embed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. embed: Collins English Dictionary
  6. embed: Vocabulary.com
  7. Embed, embed: Wordnik
  8. embed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. embed: Wiktionary
  10. embed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. embed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. embed: Dictionary.com
  13. embed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Embed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Embed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. embed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. embed: Rhymezone
  18. embed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. embed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. embed: Free Dictionary
  21. embed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. embed: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. embed: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. embed: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. embed: Netlingo
  2. embed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. embed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To include (something) in surrounding matter.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
verb:  (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.
noun:  One thing embedded within another, as:
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.
noun:  An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
noun:  (computing) A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.
noun:  (computing) A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.

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