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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).
Pronunciation
Verb
incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated)
- (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:integrate
The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
1716 March 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 19. Friday, February 24. ”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; , volume IV, London: Jacob Tonson, , published 1721, →OCLC:The Romans […] did not subdue a country in order to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66:In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.
1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:The new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy.
- (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
- (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
- (transitive) To form into a legal company.
The company was incorporated in 1980.
- (US, law) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
- To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome:do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them
Derived terms
Translations
include as a part or ingredient
— see also integrate
- Arabic: دَمَجَ (damaja)
- Belarusian: уключа́ць impf (uključácʹ), уключы́ць pf (uključýcʹ), інкарпарава́ць impf or pf (inkarparavácʹ)
- Bulgarian: включвам (bg) (vključvam)
- Catalan: incorporar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 组成 (zh) (zǔchéng)
- Dutch: inbouwen (nl), inlijven (nl)
- Finnish: sisällyttää (fi)
- French: incorporer (fr)
- German: enthalten (de), beinhalten (de), hinzufügen (de)
- Greek: ενσωματώνω (el) (ensomatóno)
- Ido: enkorpigar (io)
- Italian: incorporare (it), integrare (it)
- Manx: cochorpaghey
- Maori: komokomo
- Portuguese: incorporar (pt)
- Russian: включа́ть (ru) impf (vključátʹ), включи́ть (ru) pf (vključítʹ), инкорпори́ровать (ru) impf or pf (inkorporírovatʹ)
- Slovene: vključiti, vključevati
- Spanish: incorporar (es)
- Swedish: arbeta in, innefatta (sv), införliva (sv), inkorporera (sv), inlemma (sv), lägga till (sv)
- Turkish: içermek (tr), ihtiva etmek (tr), kapsamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: включа́ти impf (vključáty), включи́ти impf (vključýty), інкорпорува́ти impf or pf (inkorporuváty)
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admit as a member of a company
Adjective
incorporate (comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate)
- (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.
1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto II:And gazing on thee, sullen tree,
Sick for thy stubborn hardihood,
I seem to fail from out my blood
And grow incorporate into thee.
Etymology 2
in- (“not”) + corporate
Pronunciation
Adjective
incorporate (not comparable)
- Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript:The air vibrated at a white-hot temperature, the stones seemed to be trembling silently, ready to flow, and in the distance, at a curve of the road, the files of men, guns and horses seemed detached from the earth, and trembled like a mass of jelly in their onward progress, and it seemed to me that they were not living people that I saw before me, but an army of incorporate shadows.
- Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
an incorporate banking association
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
incorporate
- inflection of incorporare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
incorporate f pl
- feminine plural of incorporato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
incorporāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of incorporō
Spanish
Verb
incorporate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of incorporar combined with te