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Incorporate vs Interpolate - What's the difference?

incorporate | interpolate |

As verbs the difference between incorporate and interpolate

is that incorporate is to include (something) as a part while interpolate is (intransitive) to introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.

As an adjective incorporate

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

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

    * ----

    interpolate

    English

    (Interpolation)

    Verb

    (interpolat)
  • (intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.
    • in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated
  • (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
  • (computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
  • * , Nroff/Troff User's manual
    • A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .'''xx'' will '''interpolate the contents of macro ''xx .
  • * , 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.
    • In Perl, variable interpolation' happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list '''interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a ''LIST .

    Synonyms

    * (process fetched data in-line) transclude

    Related terms

    * extrapolate * interpolation