bed vs embed

bed

verb
  • To place in a bed. 

  • To settle, as machinery. 

  • To go to bed. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. 

  • To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. 

  • To furnish with a bed or bedding. 

  • To set out (plants) in a garden bed. 

  • To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed. 

  • To put oneself to sleep. 

  • To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement. 

noun
  • Marriage. 

  • The taut surface of a trampoline. 

  • Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire. 

  • The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. 

  • The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below. 

  • Sleep; rest; getting to sleep. 

  • Sexual activity. 

  • A garden plot. 

  • A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. 

  • A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks. 

  • The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. 

  • An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found. 

  • A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid. 

  • The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. 

  • A course of stone or brick in a wall. 

  • Time spent in a bed. 

  • A deposit of ore, coal, etc. 

  • A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. 

  • A prepared spot in which to spend the night. 

  • The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. 

  • The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned. 

  • The horizontal surface of a building stone. 

  • The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. 

  • One's place of sleep or rest. 

  • A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet. 

embed

verb
  • To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed. 

  • To encapsulate within another document or data file. 

  • 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. 

  • To include (something) in surrounding matter. 

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

  • 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 item embedded in another document. 

How often have the words bed and embed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )