include
verb
- To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
- to contain something
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”).
- 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”).
- 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.”
“Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?”
- To enclose, confine.
“I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.”
- To conclude; to terminate.
“Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.”
- 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.”