Embed vs Plunge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between embed and plunge

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 plunge is (label) to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.

As nouns the difference between embed and plunge

is that embed is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit while plunge is the act of plunging or submerging.

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")

plunge

English

Noun

(en noun)

the act of plunging or submerging

a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

to take the water with a plunge

plunge in the sea

(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse

(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation

(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

Verb

(plung)

(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.

To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

To baptize by immersion.

(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.

To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)

some wild colt, which flings and plunges

To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.

To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).

* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)

Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.

To overwhelm, overpower.

Anagrams

References

* * English ergative verbs