different between embed vs iframe

English

Alternative forms

• imbed

Etymology

From em- +? bed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?d/, /?m?b?d/, /?m?b?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

embed (third-person singular simple present embeds, present participle embedding, simple past and past participle embedded)

1. (transitive) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.

   to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
2. (transitive, 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.
3. (transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.

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

4. (mathematics, transitive) 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.

   The torus ${\displaystyle S^{1}\times S^{1}}$ can be embedded in ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}}$.

Derived terms

• embeddable

Translations

Noun

embed (plural embeds)

1. (journalism) 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.
2. An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
3. (computing) An item embedded in another document.
   • 2006, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions

     When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.

   • 2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas (page 265)

     Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.

Further reading

• embed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame.

Noun

iframe (plural iframes)

1. (Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource.
   • 2006, Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Professional Ajax (page 4)

     This enabled developers to forego framesets altogether and simply place invisible iframes (through the use of CSS) on a page to enable client-server communication.

   • 2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies

     Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.