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EMBED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: embedded    , embedding   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war

Example:

The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "embed" is one way to...):

aggroup; group (form a group or group together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fix or set securely or deeply

Example:

The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum

Synonyms:

embed; engraft; imbed; implant; plant

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "embed" is one way to...):

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "embed"):

pot (plant in a pot)

nest (fit together or fit inside)

bury; sink (embed deeply)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

Differentiation is controlled by the interaction of a cell's genes with the physical and chemical conditions outside the cell, usually through signaling pathways involving proteins embedded in the cell surface.

(Differentiation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The tumor cells are polygonal and deeply eosinophilic, and are embedded in a fibrous stroma.

(Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Any part of a transmembrane protein that is not embedded within the membrane.

(Extramembrane Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissue that is not frozen or embedded in preservatives

(Fresh Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The CPCTR can provide researchers with formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded primary prostate cancer specimens,and their associated pathologic and clinical information.

(Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

And embedded in it are these very singular enclosures.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It provides semi-quantitative results of p185HER2 (HER2 gene) overexpression in Bouin or formalin-fixed, routinely processed, paraffin-embedded breast cancer tissues by light microscopy.

(HercepTest, NCI Thesaurus)

GPRs contain 7 hydrophobic transmembrane domains embedded in hydrophilic intra- and extracellular loops and transduce a variety of hormone, endogenous peptide, and neurotransmitter signals into intracellular effects via G proteins.

(G Protein-Coupled Receptor Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Mature osteoblasts that have become embedded in the BONE MATRIX.

(Murine Osteocytes, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The marine biologists found that wherever there were clusters of mussels embedded in the mud around the base of the grass stems, the grass survived.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)