Definition of
Imbibe
The Latin word imbibere came to Spanish as imbibe. The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), in his dictionary, recognizes more than a dozen meanings of the term.
- absorb or soak
- Other meanings
- Embed computer elements
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absorb or soak
The first meaning refers to what a solid object does when it absorbs a liquid. Embedding also consists of soaking a permeable or porous item with a liquida frequent action in the field of gastronomy.
For example: “To prepare the cake, first you have to soak the cookies in milk”, “By soaking the cake in coffee, it becomes much softer”, “If you want to disinfect the screen, you can soak a cotton pad in alcohol and then wipe it over the screen. surface carefully”.
Throughout these three example sentences we can appreciate different uses of the word imbibe, even when they are within the same scope. Such is the case of the first two, since imbibing an ingredient to affect the general result of a recipe It is not the same as doing it with an already finished product, such as a sponge cake. In the first, the action can make the mixture more homogeneous, regardless of the final consistency, while in the second it is carried out to facilitate the consumption of a dish.
The third sentence does not speak of softening a product, nor of a gastronomic dish. Cotton is soaked (or Soak) in alcohol with the intention of clean a device, in this case a screen, but the objective is to retain the alcohol, since this is the product that will serve to remove the dirt, and the piece of cotton is little more than a channel or a medium.
It can serve you: Dulce de leche
Other meanings
The idea to imbibe, on the other hand, is used to refer to to put or enclose one thing inside another. It can even be used with reference to incorporate an intangible element into another.
When a part of an object is collected in itself to make it smaller or when something shrinks one can speak of embedding: “I should embed the dress so it doesn’t look so long on me”, “Hot water can soak certain textile fibers”.
Passionately surrender to one activity either read and learn deeply about a issue are other actions that can be mentioned as embed: “If time allows me, on the trip I am going to immerse myself in Italian art”.
See also: Reading
Embed computer elements
In the field of technologyfinally, embed supposes embed code from one programming language in another. Thus, it is possible to insert content from one platform into a different one: embed a video from Youtube in WordPressembed an image of flickr in Bloggeretc.
In this case we are faced with a language vice, more precisely a loan, since the term already existed but did not have the specific meaning of its current equivalent in English, embed. In any case, if we focus only on the action it represents, it is a very common one in current web page design, where many elements from different origins are combined, which must coexist and, more importantly, communicate with each other to provide a consistent user experience.
Embedding one element in another may seem easy from a practical point of view, if we only take into account the steps to follow in certain accessible programs. But basically, the need is to make compatible two things that were created in different languages, that have different needs and that, in principle, they don’t know how to communicate with each other. In other words, embedding a video in a page programmed in HTML, for example, requires the use of a Interface that allows them to coexist and that gives the user the impression that they are a whole, a unit.
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