Included vs Used - What's the difference?
included | used |
(include)
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
(use)
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
(intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
That is or has or have been used.
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Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
As verbs the difference between included and used
is that included is (include) while used is (use).As an adjective used is
that is or has or have been used.included
English
Verb
(head)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.
Anagrams
* ----used
English
Verb
(head)- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
- You used me!
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
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- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.