Embed vs Engrave - What's the difference?
embed | engrave |
To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
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(by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
(computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).
(mathematics) 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.
An embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.
An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
* 1992 , Sammy Richard Danna, Advertising and Popular Culture
(computing) An item embedded in another document.
* 2006 , Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions
* 2011 , Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas (page 265)
(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
(lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
As verbs the difference between embed and engrave
is that embed is to lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand while engrave is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.As a noun embed
is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.embed
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* imbedVerb
(embedd)- We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
- The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
- The torus can be embedded in .
Noun
(en noun)- He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase.
- When you change the content of these embeds , this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.
- Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.
External links
* (wikipedia "embed")engrave
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).Verb
(engrav)Synonyms
* carve, etch, inscribeEtymology 2
From .Verb
(engrav)- So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].