Accept vs Include - What's the difference?
accept | include |
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
To admit to a place or a group.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
To endure patiently.
(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
To receive officially
To receive something willingly.
(obsolete) Accepted.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To enclose, confine.
*, New York, 2001, p.107:
(obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
* Shakespeare
(computing) 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 obsolete terms the difference between accept and include
is that accept is accepted while include is to conclude; to terminate.As an adjective accept
is accepted.As a noun include is
a piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.accept
English
Verb
(en verb)- She accepted of a treat.
- The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
- The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- I accept the fact that Christ lived.
- I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- I accept my punishment.
- to accept the report of a committee
- I accept .
Synonyms
* receive * take * withtake * admitAntonyms
* reject * declineDerived terms
* accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept serviceAdjective
(en adjective)- Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
include
English
Alternative forms
* enclude (obsolete)Verb
(includ)- I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.
- 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
- The whole included race, his purposed prey.
- The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
- I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
- Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
Antonyms
* excludeNoun
(en noun)- 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.