embeds

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of embed.

   The software embeds tracking codes into each document automatically.

   A skilled editor embeds the video clip seamlessly within the article.

   Note

   The verb form that nearly always takes an object: someone or something embeds a thing in surrounding matter. One spelling covers several kinds of setting-in. A mason embeds tiles in mortar, a web page embeds a video, and in mathematics a function embeds one set in another while preserving its structure. A subject before it marks it as a verb, unlike the plural noun with its article or number.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of embed.

   The embeds filed their reports from the front line each evening.

   Three embeds accompanied the battalion throughout the offensive.

   Note

   A noun clipped from phrases like embedded reporter. An embed is whoever, or whatever, has been embedded. In war and campaign reporting the embeds are journalists traveling with a unit or a candidate. In digital work they are objects set inside a document, or hardware built into a larger device. Only context separates people from things. A determiner (the embeds, three embeds) separates it from the present-tense verb.

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