Embed vs Engross - What's the difference?
embed | engross |
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)
(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* De Quincey
(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
To completely engage the attention of.
(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To amass.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between embed and engross
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 engross is (finalize) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.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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Alternative forms
* 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")engross
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Verb
(es)- some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
- laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
- After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
- Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
- She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
- As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
- waves engrossed with mud
- not sleeping, to engross his idle body
- to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf