Meaning

• An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.

• An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.

• An item embedded in another document.

Meaning

• To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.

  "to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand"

• (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.

  "We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it."

• To encapsulate within another document or data file.

  "The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document."

• To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.