Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To take in as a part, element, or member.
- v. To contain as a secondary or subordinate element.
- v. To consider with or place into a group, class, or total: thanked the host for including us.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To confine within something; hold as in an inclosure; inclose; contain.
- To comprise as a part, or as something incident or pertinent; comprehend; take in: as, the greater includes the less; this idea includes many particulars; the Roman empire included many nations. In logic a term is said to include under it the subjects of which it can be predicated, and to include within itself its essential predicates.
- To conclude; terminate.
Wiktionary
- v. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
- v. To contain, as parts of a whole.
- n. computing A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose
- v. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace
- v. obsolete To conclude; to end; to terminate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category
- v. have as a part, be made up out of
- v. consider as part of something
- v. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
Etymologies
- (1420) From Latin includere ("to shut in, enclose, insert"), from in- ("in") + claudere ("to shut"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English includen, from Latin inclūdere, to enclose : in-, in; see in-2 + claudere, to close. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Reference Industrial Strength C++ 15.4; High Integrity CPP Rule 14.10 Do not include a path specifier in file names supplied in #include directives.”
“Yes you need to download the function and put it in your script, or include via #include or put it in your lib folder, anyway try this:”
“I've successfully used #include COM. ahk in my script so that I can also include an IE control and animated gifs in my gui window.”
“; #include tf. ahk; remove comment if you don't include TF in your library test =”
“So, feminists, does your definition of the term include Sarah Palin?”
“Other notable business developments from the term include:”
The Wall Street Journal: Business Capitalizes on Ruling in Political Case
“Others whose ideas are given the label include the 18th century clergyman Thomas Malthus, and Darwin's cousin Francis Galton who founded eugenics towards the end of the 19th century.”
Failed Conservative Values: David Sirota on Economic Darwinism
“Books that don't have the word "war" in the title include The Fall of the Athenian Empire (I think there was a war involved in that), and While America Sleeps, a clarion call to increase spending for war, co-written with son Frederick.”
“Makes me ill to see his title include "The Honorable" before his name.”
“Highlights of the term include an address to both Houses on May 31 by French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘include’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
driving, implement, Trot, speed, exhale, dope, obstacle, tail, plow, coloration, para, weaving and 678 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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[Open] Stative Verbs
Definition Many of these can also be dynamic.
Please just list bare infinitives to keep the list wieldy. Perhaps a tag (e.g., “stative”) would be sufficient for participles.)act, amaze, appear, appreciate, astonish, become, believe, belong, cost, feel, get, hate and 53 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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-clud-, -clus-
closed; shut
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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What a concept
surrender, submit, yield, self-sacrifice, relent, capitulate, compromise, accommodate, commiserate, forgive, placate, give and 94 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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read&vocab
porridge, huge, gleam, battered, declared, thump, exchange, whisper, hang, bent, precious, polish and 12 more...
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