Include
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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 add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category wordnet
- 3 To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
"The vacation package includes car rental."
- 4 consider as part of something wordnet
- 5 To enclose, confine. obsolete
"I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit."
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- 6 allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of wordnet
- 7 To conclude; to terminate. obsolete
"Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity."
- 8 have as a part, be made up out of wordnet
- 9 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."
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More examples"Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on."
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. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).
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