Include vs Involve - What's the difference?
include | involve | Synonyms |
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
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(obsolete) To enclose, confine.
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(obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
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(computing) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
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(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
Involve is a synonym of include.
As verbs the difference between include and involve
is that include is to bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member while involve is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.As a noun include
is a piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.include
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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.
Anagrams
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.