embed

Meanings

Verb

• To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
• To include in surrounding matter.
• To encapsulate within another document or data file.
• 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

• 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.
• An item embedded in another document.

Origin

• From en- + bed.