different between embody vs involve

English

Etymology

em- +? body

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?di/
• Rhymes: -?di

Verb

embody (third-person singular simple present embodies, present participle embodying, simple past and past participle embodied)

1. (transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

   As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

   • The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
2. (transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.

   The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

   The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

3. (transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.
   • 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)

     For use in a nursery for cradling a baby to sleep, a baby cradler comprising, in combination, a stand embodying a mobile base, uprights attached to and rising perpendicularly from the base and having axially aligned bearings, [...]

4. (intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.

Synonyms

• (represent in physical form): actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify
• (include or represent): embrace, encompass, enfold
• (unite in a body or mass): fuse, integrate, merge; see also Thesaurus:coalesce

Derived terms

• disembody
• embodiment

Translations

Anagrams

• boydem

English

Alternative forms

• envolve

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin involv?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v?lv/
• Hyphenation: in?volve

Verb

involve (third-person singular simple present involves, present participle involving, simple past and past participle involved)

1. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
2. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
   • Black vapors, issuing from the vent, involve the sky.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

   • the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
4. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II

     He knows / His end with mine involved.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon

     The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
   • 1728-1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

     The gathering number, as it moves along,
     Involves a vast involuntary throng.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II

     Earth with hell / To mingle and involve.

6. To envelop, enfold, entangle.

   He's involved in the crime.

7. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.

   How can we involve the audience more during the show?

   By getting involved in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
8. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.

Synonyms

• imply
• include
• implicate
• complicate
• entangle
• embarrass
• overwhelm

Translations

See also

• involver
• voluble
• involute

References

• involve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Verb

involve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of involv?