include

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkluːd/

The English word “include” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
To enclose, confine.
To conclude; to terminate.
To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.

noun

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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