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Incorporate vs Append - What's the difference?

incorporate | append |

In lang=en terms the difference between incorporate and append

is that incorporate is to form into a legal company while append is to add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.

As verbs the difference between incorporate and append

is that incorporate is to include (something) as a part while append is to hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

As an adjective incorporate

is (obsolete) corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

As a noun append is

(computing) an instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

incorporate

English

Verb

(incorporat)
  • To include (something) as a part.
  • The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
    to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
  • * Addison
  • The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
  • To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
  • Incorporate air into the mixture.
  • To admit as a member of a company
  • To form into a legal company.
  • The company was incorporated in 1980.
  • (US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
  • To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
  • * Shakespeare
  • By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
  • To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
  • * Bishop Stillingfleet
  • The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

    Derived terms

    * incorporated

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  • * Shakespeare
  • As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
  • Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
  • Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
  • an incorporate banking association

    Anagrams

    * ----

    append

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
  • To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
  • (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
  • Derived terms

    * prepend

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
  • Anagrams

    *

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