different between comprise vs incorporate

English

Etymology

From Middle English comprisen, from Old French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere, contr. comprendere, past participle comprehensus (“to comprehend”); see comprehend. Compare apprise, reprise, surprise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p?a?z/

Verb

comprise (third-person singular simple present comprises, present participle comprising, simple past and past participle comprised)

1. (transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts). [from the earlier 15th c.]
2. (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose; to constitute. [from the late 18th c.]
   • 1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (translation), Prop. XXX

     "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3. To contain or embrace. [from the earlier 15th c.]

4. (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

   Coordinate term: compose (close-ended)

Usage notes

Synonyms

• (to compose): form, make up; see also Thesaurus:compose

Related terms

• comprehensive

Translations

Further reading

• comprised of on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• comprise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• perosmic

French

Verb

comprise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of comprendre

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Late Latin incorpor?tus, perfect passive participle of incorpor? (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??p?e(?)t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??(?).p??.e?t/
  • (US) enPR: ?nkôr'p?r?t, IPA^(key): /???k??p?e?t/
• (adjective)
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??(?).p??.?t/
  • (US) enPR: ?nkôr'p?r?t, IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/

Verb

incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated)

1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.

5. (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).
6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
7. 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

• incorporated

Translations

Adjective

incorporate (comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate)

1. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

Etymology 2

in- (“not”) +? corporate

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??(?).p??.?t/
• (US) enPR: ?nkôr'p?r?t, IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/

Adjective

incorporate (not comparable)

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.

   • Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.

   • 1905, Leonid Andreyev, trans. 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.

2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

Antonyms

• corporate, corporeal

Anagrams

• procreation

Italian

Verb

incorporate

1. second-person plural present indicative of incorporare
2. second-person plural imperative of incorporare
3. feminine plural of incorporato

Anagrams

• crepitarono
• patrocinerò
• portoricane

Latin

Verb

incorpor?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incorpor?