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include.

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɪnˈkluːd/Received-Pronunciation/ɪnˈkluːd/General-American

  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.
    Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?

  3. To enclose, confine.

    obsolete

  4. To conclude; to terminate.

    obsolete

  5. 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.
Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/ɪnˈkluːd/Received-Pronunciation/ɪnˈkluːd/General-American

  1. A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

Where this word comes from

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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