include
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
Verb 3 meanings
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.”
To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
“The vacation package includes car rental.”
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.”
Noun 1 meaning
A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
Etymology
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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INCLUDE at a glance
INCLUDE has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (I 1 + N 1 + C 3 + L 1 + U 1 + D 2 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #589 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with include
All rhymes- DUDE6
- ATTITUDE9
- RUDE5
- CRUDE8
- MAGNITUDE13
- ALTITUDE9
- GRATITUDE11
- CONCLUDE13
- EXCLUDE17
- MULTITUDE12
- LATITUDE9
- SOLITUDE9
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