different between enclose vs incorporate

English

Alternative forms

• inclose (was as common as or more common than enclose until the early 1800s, is now uncommon)

Etymology

From Middle English enclosen, inclosen, from Middle English enclos, from Old French enclose, feminine plural past participle of enclore, from Vulgar Latin *inclaud?, *inclaudere, from Latin incl?d? (doublet of include). Equivalent to en- +? close.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?klo?z/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?kl??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?klo?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

enclose (third-person singular simple present encloses, present participle enclosing, simple past and past participle enclosed)

1. (transitive) to surround with a wall, fence, etc.

2. (transitive) to insert into a container, usually an envelope or package

Usage notes

• Until about 1820, it was common to spell this word, and the derived terms encloser and enclosure, with in- (i.e. as inclose, incloser, inclosure). Since 1820, the forms with en- have predominated.

Synonyms

• (to surround with a wall &c.): incastellate, encastellate (used for cisterns, fountains, &c.); see also fortify

Translations

See also

• encircle
• encloser
• enclosable

References

Anagrams

• coleens

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?