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Include vs Inside - What's the difference?

include | inside |

As nouns the difference between include and inside

is that include is a piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item while inside is the interior or inner or lesser part.

As a verb include

is to bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

As a preposition inside is

within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.

As an adverb inside is

within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.

As an adjective inside is

originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.

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

    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

    * ----

    inside

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The interior or inner or lesser part.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
  • (colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
  • (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
  • * The Anti-Jacobin
  • So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides .
  • * (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
  • So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
  • He placed the letter inside the envelope.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.
  • It started raining, so I went inside .
  • (colloquial) In prison.
  • He's inside , doing a stretch for burglary.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.
  • The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
    The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
    They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
  • (baseball) A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
  • The first pitch is ... just a bit inside .
  • Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc.
  • Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.

    Synonyms

    * indoors

    Antonyms

    * outside

    Derived terms

    * inside job