All 3 Uses of
embedded
in
1984, by Orwell
- They used to kind of embed it in the glass.†
p. 95.5embed = place firmly within
- Why then did that horror, which altered nothing, have to lie embedded in future time?†
p. 103.6 *embedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- Some dreadful thing which had lain embedded in the future had somehow been skipped over and had not happened.†
p. 243.6
Definition:
firmly within; or placed within
in various senses, including:
- firmly stuck into -- as a thorn into a finger
- enclosed within -- as a fossil within a rock
- implanted as a part -- sometimes specifically of a reporter
- integrated in hardware -- as of a computer chip
- firmly set within -- as of a character trait