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include

verb

  1. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
  2. to contain something
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkluːd/

noun

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”).

  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.

verb

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”).

  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?

  3. To enclose, confine.

    I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

  4. To conclude; to terminate.

    Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

  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.