Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To unite (one thing) with something else already in existence: incorporated the letter into her diary.
- v. To admit as a member to a corporation or similar organization.
- v. To cause to merge or combine together into a united whole.
- v. To cause to form into a legal corporation: incorporate a business.
- v. To give substance or material form to; embody.
- v. Linguistics To cause (a word, for example) to undergo noun incorporation.
- v. To become united or combined into an organized body.
- v. To become or form a legal corporation: San Antonio incorporated as a city in 1837.
- v. Linguistics To be formed by or allow formation by noun incorporation.
- adj. Combined into one united body; merged.
- adj. Formed into a legal corporation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To form into a body; combine, as different individuals, elements, materials, or ingredients, into one body.
- To unite with a body or substance; unite intimately; work in; introduce and combine so as to form a part.
- To place in a body; give material form to; incarnate; embody.
- To form into a body corporate or politic; constitute as a corporation, with power to act as one person and have perpetual succession; confer corporate rights upon: as, to incorporate a city or a town; to incorporate a bank or a railroad company.
- Synonyms and 2. To blend, merge, consolidate.
- To unite with another body so as to make a part of it; be mixed, blended, or combined; be worked in: usually followed by with.
- Incorporated; united in one body; mixed; conjoined; intimately associated.
- Not corporeal; not bodily or material; not having a material body.
- Not corporate; not existing as a corporation: as, an incorporate bank.
Wiktionary
- v. To include (something) as a part.
- v. To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
- v. To admit as a member of a company
- v. To form into a legal company.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
- adj. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
- adj. Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
- v. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
- v. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
- v. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; ; -- used with with and into.
- v. To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental
- v. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities
- v. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by
with .
WordNet 3.0
- v. unite or merge with something already in existence
- v. form a corporation
- adj. formed or united into a whole
- v. make into a whole or make part of a whole
- v. include or contain; have as a component
Etymologies
- Middle English incorporaten, from Late Latin incorporāre, incorporāt-, to form into a body : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin corpus, corpor-, body; see corpus.
Examples
“I say all this because I study linguistics, so when I try to build a model of language I know specifically what the output of the model should be (because deducing all the variables that you need to incorporate is a doable task).”
Douglass North, On One Foot, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Saying that corporations should have no rights because an individual can incorporate is inconsistent with judicial interpretation of the 1st amendment.”
““The day you incorporate is the day your site stops being a “Blog” and becomes a Media Company.””
Business week, making millions “blogging” « The Paradigm Shift
“The initial permit needed is the permit to incorporate from the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, a requirement common to all companies that organize in Mexico.”
What is a maquiladora? Manufacturing in Mexico: The Mexican in-bond (Maquila) program
“Once permission to incorporate is received, application may be made to SECOFI for a maquila program.”
What is a maquiladora? Manufacturing in Mexico: The Mexican in-bond (Maquila) program
“The day you incorporate is the day your site stops being a “Blog” and becomes a Media Company.”
“What I’m trying to incorporate is more of a, certainly for the action sequences, create a pipeline that’s more similar to a CGI film like a Pixar film or even like AVATAR.”
Jon Favreau on Why Iron Man 2 Won’t Shoot in IMAX and How Avatar Will Revolutionize Cinema | /Film
“For the most part, a marketer's top-producing search terms incorporate its brand name.”
“Much of the real authority over intelligence spending resides with the Appropriations Committee, and Rogers said he hopes to "incorporate" some senior members of that panel into his own by inviting them to sit in on some intelligence committee meetings and briefings.”
The Washington Post: New House intelligence leaders bridge the bipartisan aisle
“This was a strong signal that the court would "incorporate" the right to keep and bear arms against state interference via the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause the way it protects most other rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.”
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