incorporate
Verb · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Verb (4)incorporated, incorporating
- make into a whole or make part of a whole“She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal”Synonyms: integrateOpposite disintegrateMore general compound, combineMore specific re-incorporate, fold, build in, reintegrate
- include or contain; have as a component“A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”“The record contains many old songs from the 1930's”Synonyms: containcompriseMore general include
- form a corporationMore general make, create
- unite or merge with something already in existence“incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case”More general take in, gather in
Adjective (1)
- formed or united into a wholeSynonyms: incorporatedintegratedmergedunifiedOpposite dividedSimilar united
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Translations
Verb include as a part or ingredient
- Spanish
- incorporar
- French
- incorporer
- German
- integrieren
- Italian
- incorporare
- Portuguese
- incorporar
- Turkish
- içermek
- Russian
- включа́ть vključátʹ
- Dutch
- inlijven
- Polish
- inkorporować
- Swedish
- inkorporera
4 more languages
- Greek
- ενσωματώνω ensomatóno
- Portuguese (PT)
- incorporar
- Catalan
- incorporar
- Finnish
- sisällyttää
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate.
1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate.— Sir Walter Raleigh
2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.
Origin: L. incorporatus, p. p. of incorporare to incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make into a body. See Corporate.
Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate.— William Shakespeare
A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
1. 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.— William Shakespeare
2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.— Bp. Edward Stillingfleet
3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; — used with with and into.
4. To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work.
The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.— Joseph Addison
5. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.
To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; — usually followed by with.
Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
He never suffers wrong so long to grow, And to incorporate with right so far As it might come to seem the same in show.— Daniel.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54