Definition of "include"

include

/ɪnˈkluːd/

verb
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.
2. To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
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  The whole included race, his purposed prey.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
  c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
3. (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
  Quotations
  I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
4. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
  Quotations
  Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
  c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
5. (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
noun
plural includes
1. (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
  Quotations
  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.
  2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day

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