v To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
v (computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).
v (mathematics|transitive) To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain property|properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.
n Short for embedded reporter/journalist, a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.