include
//ɪnˈkluːd//
Forms
- present (v1)
- include
- past (v2)
- included
- past participle (v3)
- included
- present participle
- including
- 3rd person singular
- includes
- Plural
- includes
Definitions
1.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.
2.To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
- The vacation package includes car rental.
- The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
- The whole included race, his purposed prey.
3.To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
- You have to include the strings library to use this function.
1.A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #328
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”).
Doublet of enclose.