different between include vs invest

English

Alternative forms

• enclude (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin incl?dere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”). Doublet of enclose.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?klu?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?klu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Verb

include (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.

   I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.

2. To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.

   The vacation package includes car rental.

   Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?

   I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.

   up to and including page twenty-five
3. (obsolete) To enclose, confine. [from early 15th c.]
   • , New York, 2001, p.107:

     I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

4. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
5. (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.

Antonyms

• exclude

Related terms

• inclusion (noun)
• inclusive (adjective)
• includable
• includible
• include me out
• reinclude

Translations

Noun

include (plural includes)

1. (programming) A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
   • 2006, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day

     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.

Anagrams

• clued-in, nuclide

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

include

1. third-person singular indicative present of includere

Anagrams

• nuclide

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?klu?.de/, [???k??u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?klu.de/, [i??klu?d??]

Verb

incl?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of incl?d?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin includere. Doublet of the inherited închide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?klude/

Verb

a include (third-person singular present include, past participle inclus) 3rd conj.

1. to include

   Antonym: exclude

Conjugation

Derived terms

• includere

Related terms

• închis
• inclus
• inclusiv
• incluziune

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?v?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French investir or Medieval Latin investire, from Latin investio (“to clothe, cover”), from in- (“in, on”) + vestio (“to clothe, dress”), from vestis (“clothing”); see vest. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.

Verb

invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)

1. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

2. (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
4. To envelop, wrap, cover.
5. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
6. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
7. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
8. To formally give (power or authority).
9. To surround, accompany, or attend.
10. To lay siege to.

11. (intransitive) To make investments.
12. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
13. (intransitive) To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.

Synonyms

• (put on clothing): beclothe, don, dress; see also Thesaurus:clothe
• (lay siege to): besiege

Antonyms

• (clothe): divest
• (give): divest
• (commit funds): disinvest, divest

Derived terms

Related terms

• divest
• vest
• vestibule
• vestment
• vesture

Translations

Etymology 2

From investigate, by shortening

Noun

invest (plural invests)

1. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

References

Anagrams

• ventis