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Welcome vs Include - What's the difference?

welcome | include |

As verbs the difference between welcome and include

is that welcome is to affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!" while include is to bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

As nouns the difference between welcome and include

is that welcome is the act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception while include is a piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

As an interjection welcome

is Greeting given upon someone's arrival.

As an adjective welcome

is whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.

welcome

English

Interjection

(en interjection)

    • Verb

    (welcom)
  • To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,
  • To accept something willingly or gladly.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
  • :
  • *(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
  • *:When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest.
  • Producing gladness.
  • :
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“A very welcome , kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. 
  • Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.
  • :
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
  • The utterance of such a greeting.
  • Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
    • We entered the house and found a ready welcome .
  • * Shenstone
    • his warmest welcome at an inn
  • * South
    • Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.

    Derived terms

    * wear out one's welcome * welcome wagon * you're welcome 1000 English basic words

    include

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enclude (obsolete)

    Verb

    (includ)
  • To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
    • I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.
  • To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
    • The vacation package includes car rental.
    Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?
    I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.
    up to and including page twenty-five
  • * Milton
    • The whole included race, his purposed prey.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
  • (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.107:
    • I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
  • (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

    Antonyms

    * exclude

    Related terms

    * inclusion (noun) * inclusive (adjective) * includable * includible * include me out * reinclude

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
  • * 2006 , Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
    • In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes , which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.

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