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Incorporate vs Composite - What's the difference?

incorporate | composite |

As verbs the difference between incorporate and composite

is that incorporate is to include (something) as a part while composite is to make a composite.

As adjectives the difference between incorporate and composite

is that incorporate is corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied while composite is made up of multiple components; compound or complex.

As a noun composite is

a mixture of different components.

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

    * ----

    composite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
  • (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
  • (mathematics) Not prime; having factors.
  • (botany) Being a member of the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.

    • Derived terms

    * composite bow * composite sketch

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mixture of different components.
  • A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
  • (botany) A plant belonging to the family Compositae .
  • (mathematics) A function of a function.
  • (chiefly, law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures or images.

    • Derived terms

    * DYC

    Verb

    (composit)
  • To make a composite.
    • I composited an image using computer software.

    Related terms

    * compositry ----