Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of embodying or the state of being embodied.
- noun One that embodies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Investment with or manifestation through an animate body; incarnation; bodily presentation: as, metempsychosis is the supposed embodiment of previously existing souls in new forms; she is an embodiment of all the virtues.
- noun A bringing into or presentation in or through a form; formal expression or manifestation; formulation: as, the embodiment of principles in a treatise.
- noun Collection or formation into an aggregate body; organization; an aggregate whole; incorporation; concentration: as, the embodiment of troops into battalions, brigades, divisions, etc.; the embodiment of a country's laws.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
- noun That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body
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- noun a
physical entity typifying anabstraction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a new personification of a familiar idea
- noun a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- noun giving concrete form to an abstract concept
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Examples
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Actually, your "lobsters", and those I'm familiar with are a unique product of nature wherein a parasitic mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum) "engulfs" a host mushroom (thought to usually be a Russula or Lactauius), and in its final embodiment, is known as Hypomyces lactifluorum.
Mex Mushrooms? 2006
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The naturalness of this co-embodiment is perhaps the play's most violent re-writing of contemporary colonial conflict.
Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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