include

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

Noun

  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. - 2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing...

Origin

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”).

Forms

includes enclude

Derived

include guard

Verb

  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?
    • I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.
  3. To enclose, confine.
    • I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit. - , New York, 2001, p.107
  4. To conclude; to terminate.
    • Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity. - c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
  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.

Forms

includes including included enclude

Synonyms

add admit allow bear circumscribe come with compose comprise consist contain count cover embody embrace encircle enclose encompass entail grant incorporate involve possess

Antonyms

exclude drop lack omit refrain

Hypernyms

ownership

Related

inclusion inclusive

Derived

batteries-included includability includable include me out includer includible misinclude preinclude reinclude un-include uninclude