0 present participle of embrace
1 to accept something enthusiastically:
This was an opportunity that he would embrace.
2 to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone:
3 to include something, often as one of a number of things:
Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics.
We are always eager to embrace the latest technology.
Corporate America quickly embraced the Web as a new vehicle for advertising.
After meeting Claude Monet in 1887 he embraced and promoted the Impressionist style.
Embracing the idea that representations may be graded opens up many interesting conceptual possibilities.
It is a clear instance of 'affirmative deformation', embracing a convention (here the lyricform aria) all the more strongly by keeping its normative realisation silent.
It specifically examines new patterns of inequality and exclusion and ends by arguing that the choice we face is between fearing difference or embracing diversity.