Both Uses of
embedded
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Ellis Wyatt stood on a ridge, watching the glass dial of a gauge imbedded in the rock.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- Hanging detached in space, there were the lights of the valley below them, the red breath of Stockton's foundry above, and the lighted string of windows of Mulligan's house, like a railroad car imbedded in the sky.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(embedded) firmly withinin 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 living with a military unit