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imbed

imbed is the alternative spelling of embed.

Meaning of embed

Verb

embed (third-person singular simple present embeds, present participle embedding, simple past and past participle embedded)

  1. (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
    • to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
  2. (broadly, transitive) To include (something) in surrounding matter.
    • We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
  3. (transitive) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
    • The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
  4. (transitive) 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 S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.

See all 8 meanings of embed

Forms of imbed

third-person singular presentimbeds
present participleimbedding
past participleimbedded
pastimbedded

Words formed from imbed

Questions about imbed

What is imbed the alternative spelling of?
Imbed is the alternative spelling of embed.

Words near imbed in the dictionary

  1. imbecilitated
  2. imbecilitates
  3. imbecilitating
  4. imbecilities
  5. imbecility
  6. imbed
  7. imbeddable
  8. imbedded
  9. imbedder
  10. imbedders
  11. imbedding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbed (page history and authors); embed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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