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Incorporate vs Conglomerate - What's the difference?

incorporate | conglomerate |

As verbs the difference between incorporate and conglomerate

is that incorporate is to include (something) as a part while conglomerate is to combine together into a larger mass.

As adjectives the difference between incorporate and conglomerate

is that incorporate is (obsolete) corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied while conglomerate is clustered together into a mass.

As a noun conglomerate is

a cluster of heterogeneous things.

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

    * ----

    conglomerate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cluster of heterogeneous things.
  • * Trench
  • A conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes.
  • (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
  • (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
  • * Lyell
  • A conglomerate , therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.

    See also

    * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clustered together into a mass.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate
  • * Cheyne
  • Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
    conglomerate flowers
  • (geology) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.
  • Verb

    (conglomerat)
  • To combine together into a larger mass.
  • (business) To combine together into a larger corporation.