Lodge vs Embed - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between lodge and embed

is that lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin while embed is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.

As verbs the difference between lodge and embed

is that lodge is to be firmly fixed in a specified position 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.

lodge

English

Noun

(en noun)

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.

A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.

(US) A local chapter of a trade union.

A rural hotel or resort, an inn.

A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.

A den or cave.

The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

(mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.

(Raymond)

A collection of objects lodged together.

* De Foe

the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands

A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.

The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.

Verb

(lodg)

To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.

To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.

The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

To stay in any place or shelter.

* Shakespeare

Stay and lodge by me this night.

* Milton

Something holy lodges in that breast.

To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.

To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).

To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .

Derived terms

* lodger * lodging * lodgement

Anagrams

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")