Calendar vs Embed - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between calendar and embed

is that calendar is any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years while embed is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.

As verbs the difference between calendar and embed

is that calendar is (legal) to set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call while 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.

calendar

English

(wikipedia calendar)

Noun

(en noun)

Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

A list of planned events.

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.

* (Francis Bacon)

Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20, url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.

Usage notes

* Do not confuse calendar' with ' calender .

Synonyms

* (list of planned events) agenda, schedule, docket

Derived terms

* calendar day * calendric * calendrical * Chinese calendar * French Republican Calendar * Gregorian calendar * Hebrew calendar * Jewish calendar * Julian calendar * lunar calendar * lunisolar calendar * solar calendar * desktop calendar

Verb

(en verb)

(legal) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

The judge agreed to calendar''' a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to '''calendar the trial itself on a specific date.

To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

(Waterhouse)

Anagrams

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embed

English

Alternative forms

* imbed

Verb

(embedd)

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

(by extension) To include in surrounding matter.

We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.

(computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).

The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.

(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.

The torus $S^1\times S^1$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ .

Noun

(en noun)

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

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.

(computing) An item embedded in another document.

* 2006 , Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions

When you change the content of these embeds , this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.

* 2011 , Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas (page 265)

Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.

External links

* (wikipedia "embed")