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Include vs Involve - What's the difference?

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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

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

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    involve

    English

    Alternative forms

    * envolve

    Verb

    (involv)
  • To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  • * (John Milton)
  • Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
  • To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
  • * (John Milton)
  • And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
  • To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  • * (John Locke)
  • Involved discourses.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
  • To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
  • * (John Milton)
  • He knows / His end with mine involved .
  • * Tillotson
  • The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
  • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
  • To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
  • The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
  • * (John Milton)
  • Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
  • To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
  • To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
  • Involved in a deep study.
  • (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
  • Synonyms

    * to imply * include * implicate * complicate * entangle * embarrass * overwhelm

    See also

    * involver * voluble * involute

    References

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