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Embed vs Concave - What's the difference?

embed | concave |

As verbs the difference between embed and concave

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 concave is to render , or increase the degree of concavity.

As nouns the difference between embed and concave

is that embed is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit while concave is a surface or curve.

As an adjective concave is

curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.

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")

    concave

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
  • (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees..
  • (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
  • hollow; empty
  • * Shakespeare
    • as concave as a worm-eaten nut

    Antonyms

    * convex

    Derived terms

    * concavely * concaveness * concavity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A surface or curve.
  • The vault of the sky.
  • One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
    • Aristotle makes [Fire] to move to the concave of the Moon. - Thomas Salusbury (1661).
  • (industry) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
  • (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
  • (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.

    • Verb

    (concav)
  • To render , or increase the degree of concavity.

    • Derived terms

    * concaver ----