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Embed vs Intrench - What's the difference?

embed | intrench |

As verbs the difference between embed and intrench

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 intrench is .

As a noun embed

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

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.
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  • (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")

    intrench

    English

    Verb

  • * 1836 , Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)
    • Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea