Embed vs Incorporate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between embed and incorporate

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 incorporate is to include (something) as a part.

As a noun embed

is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.

As an adjective incorporate is

corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

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")

incorporate

English

Verb

(incorporat)

To include (something) as a part.

The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.

to incorporate another's ideas into one's work

* Addison

The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.

To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

Incorporate air into the mixture.

To admit as a member of a company

To form into a legal company.

The company was incorporated in 1980.

(US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).

To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.

* Shakespeare

By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.

To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.

* Bishop Stillingfleet

The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

Derived terms

* incorporated

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

* Shakespeare

As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .

* Francis Bacon

a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

an incorporate banking association

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