embeddedadj.

/ɛmˈbɛdɪd/

/ɪmˈbɛdɪd/

Forms: Also imbedded.

Etymology: < embed v. + -ed suffix¹.

a. That is fixed firmly in a surrounding solid mass.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in a surrounding mass

bedded1641

embedded1818

1818 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 13 Science 4 Killinite occurs imbedded, in elongated prisms.

1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Others ascribed the imbedded fossil bodies to some plastic power which resided in the earth in the early ages of the world.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 781/2 Oxide of Zinc and Oxide of Manganese;..Spartalite.—Occurs in embedded small nodules and massive.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 113 The elegant forms of the imbedded shells.

1934 Forestry 8 155 A mass of brownish friable substance that develops round embedded branch stubs.

1976 Mineral. Abstr. 27 256/2 Aluminian strengite.., vivianite.., and taranakite..occur embedded in small ‘terra rossa’ deposits.

1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 iii. 46/1 The Panasonic has an 84-key keyboard with an embedded keypad and separate cursor keys.

b. spec. in Linguistics. Of a sentence: contained within a larger sentence; subordinate. Also applied to partial sentences.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > subordinating or subordinated

subordinative1830

hypotactic1896

embedded1961

1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 346 When one sentence contains another, the latter sentence will be said to be ‘embedded’.

1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 360 An embedded compared adjective has the widest possible scope in any given sentence.

1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 20 The prepositional phrase in ‘a pipeful of good tobacco’ is an embedded adverbial group.

1968 Language 44 32 Any rules that are not concerned with embedded sentences..always treat a constituent sentence as an unanalysable unit.

1985 Eng. World-wide 6 122 In St[andard] E[nglish] the interrogative transformation which is obligatory for non-embedded questions, cannot be applied to embedded questions.

c. Mathematics. In sense Additions d.

ΚΠ

1968 D. Gorenstein Finite Groups 504 The problem of deriving a contradiction from the existence of such a weakly embedded subgroup is unfortunately vastly more difficult than from a strongly embedded one.

1971 Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups ii. 88 The above conditions are precisely Bender's definition of a strongly embedded subgroup M of a group G.

Derivatives

emˈbeddedness n.

ΚΠ

1922 Whitehead Princ. Relativ. ii. 15 Fact..is not the sum of factors; it is rather the concreteness (or, embeddedness) of factors, and the concreteness of an inexhaustible relatedness among inexhaustible relata.

1937 Mind 46 83 When we know how to deal with the erst-while novelty, when we have ‘got it taped’, it falls into embeddedness and becomes, or engenders, a part of ourselves.

1952 T. Parsons Social System 361 Philosophical investigation, as distinguished from the general imbeddedness of philosophical problems..in any system of action.

1963 Economist 7 Sept. 832/1 Man's social embeddedness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	embedded
释义	embeddedadj. /ɛmˈbɛdɪd//ɪmˈbɛdɪd/ Forms: Also imbedded. Etymology: < embed v. + -ed suffix¹. a. That is fixed firmly in a surrounding solid mass. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in a surrounding mass bedded1641 embedded1818 1818 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 13 Science 4 Killinite occurs imbedded, in elongated prisms. 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Others ascribed the imbedded fossil bodies to some plastic power which resided in the earth in the early ages of the world. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 781/2 Oxide of Zinc and Oxide of Manganese;..Spartalite.—Occurs in embedded small nodules and massive. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 781/2 Oxide of Zinc and Oxide of Manganese;..Spartalite.—Occurs in embedded small nodules and massive. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 781/2 Oxide of Zinc and Oxide of Manganese;..Spartalite.—Occurs in embedded small nodules and massive. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 113 The elegant forms of the imbedded shells. 1934 Forestry 8 155 A mass of brownish friable substance that develops round embedded branch stubs. 1976 Mineral. Abstr. 27 256/2 Aluminian strengite.., vivianite.., and taranakite..occur embedded in small ‘terra rossa’ deposits. 1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 iii. 46/1 The Panasonic has an 84-key keyboard with an embedded keypad and separate cursor keys. b. spec. in Linguistics. Of a sentence: contained within a larger sentence; subordinate. Also applied to partial sentences. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > subordinating or subordinated subordinative1830 hypotactic1896 embedded1961 1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 346 When one sentence contains another, the latter sentence will be said to be ‘embedded’. 1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 360 An embedded compared adjective has the widest possible scope in any given sentence. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 20 The prepositional phrase in ‘a pipeful of good tobacco’ is an embedded adverbial group. 1968 Language 44 32 Any rules that are not concerned with embedded sentences..always treat a constituent sentence as an unanalysable unit. 1985 Eng. World-wide 6 122 In St[andard] E[nglish] the interrogative transformation which is obligatory for non-embedded questions, cannot be applied to embedded questions. c. Mathematics. In sense Additions d. ΚΠ 1968 D. Gorenstein Finite Groups 504 The problem of deriving a contradiction from the existence of such a weakly embedded subgroup is unfortunately vastly more difficult than from a strongly embedded one. 1971 Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups ii. 88 The above conditions are precisely Bender's definition of a strongly embedded subgroup M of a group G. Derivatives emˈbeddedness n. ΚΠ 1922 Whitehead Princ. Relativ. ii. 15 Fact..is not the sum of factors; it is rather the concreteness (or, embeddedness) of factors, and the concreteness of an inexhaustible relatedness among inexhaustible relata. 1937 Mind 46 83 When we know how to deal with the erst-while novelty, when we have ‘got it taped’, it falls into embeddedness and becomes, or engenders, a part of ourselves. 1952 T. Parsons Social System 361 Philosophical investigation, as distinguished from the general imbeddedness of philosophical problems..in any system of action. 1963 Economist 7 Sept. 832/1 Man's social embeddedness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmas emˈbedded emˈbedded adj. ΚΠ 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Others ascribed the imbedded fossil bodies to some plastic power which resided in the earth in the early ages of the world. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 113 The elegant forms of the imbedded shells. 1961 C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 360 An embedded compared adjective has the widest possible scope in any given sentence. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 20 The prepositional phrase in ‘a pipeful of good tobacco’ is an embedded adverbial group. 1968 Language 44 32 Any rules that are not concerned with embedded sentences..always treat a constituent sentence as an unanalysable unit. extracted from embedimbedv. < adj.1818 as lemmas
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embeddedadj.

Derivatives

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