include
English
Alternative forms
- enclude (obsolete)
Etymology
(1420) Borrowed from Latin includere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”). Doublet of enclose.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkluːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkluːd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːd
Verb
include (third-person singular simple present includes, present participle including, simple past and past participle included)
- 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.
- To contain, as parts of a whole; 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
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- The whole included race, his purposed prey.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
- (obsolete) To enclose, confine. [from early 15th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, New York, 2001, p.107:
- I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
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- (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- (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.
Antonyms
Related terms
- inclusion (noun)
- inclusive (adjective)
- includable
- includible
- include me out
- reinclude
Translations
to bring into as a part or member
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to contain, as part of a whole
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Noun
include (plural includes)
- (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
- 2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
- In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes, which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.
- 2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈkluː.de/, [ɪŋˈkɫuː.dɛ]
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