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Incorporate vs. Include

Incorporate and Include Definitions

Incorporate

To unite (one thing) with something else already in existence
Incorporated the letter into her diary.

Include

To contain or take in as a part, element, or member.

Incorporate

To admit as a member to a corporation or similar organization.

Include

To consider as part of or allow into a group or class
Thanked the host for including us.

Incorporate

To cause to merge or combine together into a united whole.

Include

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.
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Incorporate

To cause to form into a legal corporation
Incorporate a business.

Include

To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
The vacation package includes car rental.
Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?
I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.
Up to and including page twenty-five

Incorporate

To give substance or material form to; embody.

Include

(obsolete) To enclose, confine.

Incorporate

To become united or combined into an organized body.

Include

(obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
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Incorporate

To become or form a legal corporation
San Antonio incorporated as a city in 1837.

Include

(programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
You have to include the strings library to use this function.

Incorporate

(Linguistics) To move from the head of one phrase to the head of another, forming a new word by affixing onto that head, as in certain languages when a noun object of a verb is affixed to the verb.

Include

(programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

Incorporate

Combined into one united body; merged.

Include

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
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Incorporate

Formed into a legal corporation.

Include

To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
The whole included race, his purposed prey.
The loss of such a lord includes all harm.

Incorporate

(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
To incorporate another's ideas into one's work

Include

To conclude; to end; to terminate.
Come, let us go; we will include all jarsWith triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

Incorporate

(transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.

Include

Have as a part, be made up out of;
The list includes the names of many famous writers

Incorporate

(transitive) To admit as a member of a company

Include

Consider as part of something;
I include you in the list of culprits

Incorporate

(transitive) To form into a legal company.
The company was incorporated in 1980.

Include

Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category;
We must include this chemical element in the group

Incorporate

To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).

Include

Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of;
Admit someone to the profession
She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar

Incorporate

To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.

Incorporate

To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.

Incorporate

(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

Incorporate

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.

Incorporate

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
An incorporate banking association

Incorporate

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate.

Incorporate

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.

Incorporate

Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
As if our hands, our sides, voices, and mindsHad been incorporate.
A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold.

Incorporate

To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
By your leaves, you shall not stay alone,Till holy church incorporate two in one.

Incorporate

To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

Incorporate

To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; - used with with and into.

Incorporate

To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work.
The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.

Incorporate

To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

Incorporate

To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; - usually followed by with.
Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil.
He never suffers wrong so long to grow,And to incorporate with right so farAs it might come to seem the same in show.

Incorporate

Make into a whole or make part of a whole;
She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal

Incorporate

Include or contain; have as a component;
A totally new idea is comprised in this paper
The record contains many old songs from the 1930's

Incorporate

Form a corporation

Incorporate

Unite or merge with something already in existence;
Incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case

Incorporate

Formed or united into a whole

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