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incruster — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • embed verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • gatecrash verb To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
  • inlay verb To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
  • intrude verb To enter or interrupt somewhere without invitation or welcome.

Senses

incruster is used for these senses in English:

  • embed (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • encrust (transitive) To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
  • gatecrash To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.

embed — full definition

  1. verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  2. verb To include (something) in surrounding matter.
  3. verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
  4. verb 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.

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