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Include vs Embodies - What's the difference?

include | embodies |

As verbs the difference between include and embodies

is that include is to bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member while embodies is (embody).

As a noun include

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

include

English

Alternative forms

* enclude (obsolete)

Verb

(includ)
  • 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
  • * Milton
    • The whole included race, his purposed prey.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
  • (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.107:
    • I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
  • (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

    Antonyms

    * exclude

    Related terms

    * inclusion (noun) * inclusive (adjective) * includable * includible * include me out * reinclude

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 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.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    embodies

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embody)

    • embody

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
    • As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
  • * South
    • The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
  • To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
    • The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
    The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

    Derived terms

    * disembody * embodiment