embed vs link

embed

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. 

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

  • To include (something) in surrounding matter. 

link

noun
  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. 

  • One element of a chain or other connected series. 

  • Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained. 

  • The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. 

  • The connection between buses or systems. 

  • a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. 

  • A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. 

  • A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. 

  • An introductory cue. 

  • Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion. 

  • The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. 

  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. 

  • A sausage that is not a patty. 

  • an individual person or element in a system 

verb
  • To meet with someone. 

  • To contain a hyperlink to another page. 

  • To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. 

  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things. 

  • To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable. 

  • To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. 

  • To connect two or more things. 

  • To post a hyperlink to. 

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