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The correct spelling is imbed.

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verb

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The correct spelling is imbed. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. For example: "to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand"

Usage Examples

to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand

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.

Definition

verb

  1. 1.To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  2. 2.(by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
  3. 3.To encapsulate within another document or data file.
  4. 4.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.

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