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 Dictionary entry overview: What does include mean? 

• INCLUDE (verb)
  The verb INCLUDE has 4 senses:

1. have as a part, be made up out of

2. consider as part of something

3. add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category

4. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

  Familiarity information: INCLUDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCLUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they include    ... he / she / it includes   
Past simple: included   
Past participle: included   
-ing form: including   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have as a part, be made up out of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The list includes the names of many famous writers

"Include" entails doing...:

feature; have (have as a feature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "include"):

comprise; contain; incorporate (include or contain; have as a component)

comprehend; cover; embrace; encompass (include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory)

involve (contain as a part)

subsume (contain or include)

bear; carry; contain; hold (contain or hold; have within)

attach to; inhere in (be part of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Antonym:

exclude (lack or fail to include)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider as part of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

I include you in the list of culprits

Hypernyms (to "include" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "include"):

count (include as if by counting)

colligate; subsume (consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle)

carry (include, as on a list)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

exclude (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)

Derivation:

inclusion (the act of including)

inclusive (including much or everything; and especially including stated limits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

We must include this chemical element in the group

Hypernyms (to "include" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

inclusion (the act of including)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

admit; include; let in

Context example:

She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar

Hypernyms (to "include" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

accept; admit; take; take on (admit into a group or community)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "include"):

induct; initiate (accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite)

readmit (admit again or anew)

involve (engage as a participant)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

inclusion (the act of including)

 Context examples 

It includes the drugs doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin) and cyclophosphamide.

(AC, NCI Dictionary)

But he found that a traveller’s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It includes the drugs doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin) and cyclophosphamide, followed by treatment with paclitaxel (Taxol).

(AC-T, NCI Dictionary)

In the absence of observational evidence for such small-scale clumps, some researchers have developed alternative theories, including "warm dark matter."

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

Include over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and supplements and herbs.

(Medication Errors, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

I've now got four dollars and ninety- five cents, including the ticket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The others joined them, and it was a group in which Anne found herself also necessarily included.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This includes their current and past illnesses.

(Medical history, NCI Dictionary)

Matthewson insisted that the phrase included breaking the runners from the frozen grip of the snow.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)