Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail.
- transitive verb To relate to or affect.
- transitive verb To cause to burn; spread to:
- transitive verb To engage as a participant; embroil.
- transitive verb To show to be a participant; connect or implicate.
- transitive verb To engage (oneself) in a love affair.
- transitive verb To occupy or engage the interest of.
- transitive verb To wrap; envelop.
- transitive verb Archaic To wind or coil about.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To roll or fold in or wrap up so as to conceal; envelop on all sides; cover completely; infold; specifically, in zoology, to encircle completely: as, a mark involving a joint; wings involving the body.
- To entwine; entangle; implicate; bring into entanglement or complication, literally or figuratively: as, an involved problem; to involve a nation in war; to be involved in debt.
- To bring into a common relation or connection; hence, to include as a necessary or logical consequence; imply; comprise.
- In arithmetic and algebra, to raise to any assigned power; multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times: as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- transitive verb To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to
involve in darkness or obscurity. - transitive verb To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- transitive verb To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- transitive verb rare To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- transitive verb To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass.
- transitive verb To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
- transitive verb (Math.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- verb To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
- verb To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- verb To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- verb To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- verb To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
- verb To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
- verb mathematics To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
- verb Status: involved
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb occupy or engage the interest of
- verb have as a necessary feature
- verb make complex or intricate or complicated
- verb connect closely and often incriminatingly
- verb engage as a participant
- verb contain as a part
- verb require as useful, just, or proper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And you can pretty well summarize the next three Habits with the expression "involve others in the problem and work out the solution together."
Living the 7 Habits STEPHEN R. COVEY 2001
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Cases to be heard this term involve immigration, affirmative action, gay marriage and health care.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Cases to be heard this term involve immigration, affirmative action, gay marriage and health care.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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While Rice justifies her decision by saying the book will have a definite Christian framework and a focus on the theme of redemption, she admits that the future chronicle will once again involve the character Lestat and a fictional organization known as the Talamaska that is responsible for investigating the supernatural.
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While Rice justifies her decision by saying the book will have a definite Christian framework and a focus on the theme of redemption, she admits that the future chronicle will once again involve the character Lestat and a fictional organization known as the Talamaska that is responsible for investigating the supernatural.
February 2008 2008
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Swipe-the-card-type machines are the MOST likely in involve cloning;
Another bank story 2005
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Hitting categories that correlate with the best records again involve reaching base.
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Now Professor Huxley would have readily admitted that the truth of a proposition may be denied whenever its terms involve a contradiction.
Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen
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Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements in this call involve risks and uncertainty and that future events may differ from the statements made.
Altera CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha 2011
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Nor did Mrs. Mittin involve her in much distress how her own trouble might be recompensed; the cap she found unfit for Camilla, she could contrive, she said, to alter for herself; and as a friend had given her a ticket for the ball, it would be mighty convenient to her, as she had nothing of the kind ready.
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