Include

//ɪnˈkluːd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category wordnet
  3. 3
    To consider as part of something; to comprehend.

    "The vacation package includes car rental."

  4. 4
    consider as part of something wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of wordnet
  2. 7
    To conclude; to terminate. obsolete

    "Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity."

  3. 8
    have as a part, be made up out of wordnet
  4. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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