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include

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Etymology

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From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).

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include (third-person singular simple present includes, present participle including, simple past and past participle included)

  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.
    up to and including page twenty-five
  3. (obsolete) To enclose, confine. [from early 15th c.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.107:
      I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
  4. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  5. (programming) 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.

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include (plural includes)

  1. (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
    • 2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day:
      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.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /inˈklu.de/
  • Rhymes: -ude
  • Hyphenation: in‧clù‧de

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include

  1. third-person singular present indicative of includere

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Latin

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inclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of inclūdō

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin includere. Doublet of the inherited închide.

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a include (third-person singular present include, past participle inclus) 3rd conjugation

  1. to include
    Antonym: exclude

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    conjugation of include (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive a include
gerund incluzând
past participle inclus
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present includ incluzi include includem includeți includ
imperfect includeam includeai includea includeam includeați includeau
simple perfect inclusei incluseși incluse incluserăm incluserăți incluseră
pluperfect inclusesem incluseseși inclusese incluseserăm incluseserăți incluseseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să includ să incluzi să includă să includem să includeți să includă
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative include includeți
negative nu include nu includeți

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