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Definition of include :
1. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty- five.
2. To conclude; to end; to terminate.
3. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
Synonyms:
fence, corral, consist of, entail, work in, encase, cage, immure, allow in, bear, catch, add on, allow, accept, pen, overwhelm, house, introduce, interpolate, mew, omit, take on, take, box, interject, admit, number, exclude, carry, acknowledge, embarrass, reject, fit, comprehend, append, discard, count in, build in, let in, harbor, coop, contents, take in, implicate, encage, insert, hedge, intromit, closet, complicate, enter, hem, add, wall, have, subsume, embroil, imply, inject, cover
compose (part of speech: verb)
constitute, embrace, combine, invent, embody, compose, compile, form, construct, fabricate
include (part of speech: verb)
envelop, encompass, involve, incorporate, integrate, marry, enmesh, entangle, wed
contain (part of speech: verb)
contain, enclose, comprise, accommodate, hold, stow, receive
Usage examples:
- At the same time his plans include the absolutely safe landing of troops on the east and south coast, at certain selected spots. - "Mysterious Mr. Sabin", E. Phillips Oppenheim.
- Of course he wanted to marry them- the comprehensive phrase was his own- but that didn't include him in whatever they did. - "Linda Condon", Joseph Hergesheimer.
- You certainly do not include them in either of the two classes you have named? - "The-Circus-Boys-on-the-Flying-Rings-or-Making-the-Start-in-the-Sawdust-Life", Darlington, Edgar B. P..