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Entrench vs Embed - What's the difference?

entrench | embed |

As verbs the difference between entrench and embed

is that entrench is to dig or excavate a trench; to trench 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.

entrench

English

Verb

(es)
  • (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
  • (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
    • The army entrenched''' its camp, or '''entrenched itself.
  • (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
  • * Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
  • To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on'' or ''upon .
  • * John Locke
    • We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
  • To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It was this very sword entrenched it.
  • * Milton
    • His face / Deep scars of thunder had entrenched .

    Synonyms

    * (dig) trench * (surround with a trench) dig in * consolidate

    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")