Incorporate

//ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To include (something) as a part. transitive

    "The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase."

  2. 2
    make into a whole or make part of a whole wordnet
  3. 3
    To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend transitive

    "Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking."

  4. 4
    unite or merge with something already in existence wordnet
  5. 5
    To admit as a member of a company transitive
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  1. 6
    form a corporation wordnet
  2. 7
    To form into a legal company. transitive

    "The company was incorporated in 1980."

  3. 8
    include or contain; have as a component wordnet
  4. 9
    To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments). US
  5. 10
    To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.

    "By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one."

  6. 11
    To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.

    "do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. obsolete

    "As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate."

  2. 2
    Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. not-comparable

    "Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate."

  3. 3
    Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation. not-comparable

    "an incorporate banking association"

Adjective
  1. 1
    formed or united into a whole wordnet

Synonyms

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integrateintegrateabsorbaddadd onadmit

Example

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"From a translation I demand that it combine fidelity with sonority, and that it incorporate the genius of the language that it is written in, and not that of the original language. A good translator, therefore, needs to be intimately acquainted with the philology of a language pair."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).

Etymology 2

From in- (“not”) + corporate.

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