Embodiment vs Implement - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between embodiment and implement

is that embodiment is a physical entity typifying an abstraction while implement is a tool or instrument for working with.

to bring about; to put into practice.

(wikipedia embodiment) (en noun)

a physical entity typifying an abstraction

You are the very embodiment of beauty.

* 1880 , W.S. Gilbert, Iolanthe

The law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the law.

* incarnation

* disembodiment

(wikipedia implement)

From .

(en noun)

A tool or instrument for working with.

They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

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From Scottish English or (etyl)

(en verb)

to bring about; to put into practice

It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement .

to carry out; to do

* Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

* implementable * implementation * implementer