Embody vs Embed - What's the difference?
embody | embed |
To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
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)
As verbs the difference between embody and embed
is that embody is to represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify while 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.As a noun embed is
an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.embody
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Verb
(en-verb)- As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
- The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
citation
- The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
- The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
Derived terms
* disembody * embodimentembed
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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.