different between incorporate vs append

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?

English

Etymology

From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- +? pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?nd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Homophone: upend

Verb

append (third-person singular simple present appends, present participle appending, simple past and past participle appended)

1. (transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended

2. (transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex

3. (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.

Derived terms

• appendage
• prepend

Translations

Noun

append (plural appends)

1. (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

References

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

Anagrams

• napped

French

Verb

append

1. third-person singular present indicative of appendre