Incorporates vs Comprises - What's the difference?
incorporates | comprises |
(incorporate)
To include (something) as a part.
* Addison
To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
To admit as a member of a company
To form into a legal company.
(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
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
(comprise)
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To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
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However, the passive voice of comprise must be employed carefully to make sense. Phrases such as "animals and cages are comprised by zoos" or "pitchers, catchers, and fielders are comprised by baseball teams" highlight the difficulty.
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To compose, to constitute. See usage note below.
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*:"Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
(lb) To include, contain, or be made up of ("open-ended", doesn't limit to the items listed; cf. compose , which is "closed" and limits to the items listed)
As verbs the difference between incorporates and comprises
is that incorporates is while comprises is (comprise).incorporates
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(head)incorporate
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(incorporat)- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
- The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
- Incorporate air into the mixture.
- The company was incorporated in 1980.
- By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Derived terms
* incorporatedAdjective
(en adjective)- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
- an incorporate banking association
Anagrams
* ----comprises
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(head)comprise
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(compris)However, the passive voice of comprise must be employed carefully to make sense. Phrases such as "animals and cages are comprised by zoos" or "pitchers, catchers, and fielders are comprised by baseball teams" highlight the difficulty.
Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage=Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.}}
