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.
First, this approach emphasizes the changing nature of politics; it underscores the importance of embracing a different future and the impossibility of retrieving the past.
The study findings identify a rhythmical pattern of dispelling and embracing mystery.
It is constituted by the hermeneutics of suspicion and it sustains it at the same time, thus embracing the cause of self-discipline.
Indeed, tension between civil liberties and the embracing of technology seems almost inevitable in a nation where both are admirable traditions.
Above all, as a work embracing both cultural history and the history of ideas, it is a thoroughly good read.
Instead of embracing each other, the sparks of friction highlight the persisting gulf.
A key factor in embracing workforce diversification in community nursing, therefore, seems to rest with the predictability of care.
They have developed higher-level concepts, embracing and suppressing lower-level detail.
