# include
## English
### Alternative forms

* enclude (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈkluːd/
* (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈkluːd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːd

### Verb

include (third-person singular simple present includes, present participle including, simple past and past participle included)
* 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.
* To consider as part of something; 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
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:The whole included race, his purposed prey.
** c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
* (obsolete) To enclose, confine. [from early 15th c.]
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York, 2001, p.107:
    I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
* (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
** c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
* (programming) To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
    You have to include the strings library to use this function.

#### Antonyms

* exclude

#### Derived terms

* batteries-included
* includable
* include me out
* includible
* reinclude
* uninclude

#### Related terms

* inclusion (noun)
* inclusive (adjective)

#### Translations

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### Noun

include (plural includes)
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* include guard

### Anagrams

* clued in, clued-in, nuclide

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inˈklu.de/
* Rhymes: -ude
* Hyphenation: in‧clù‧de

### Verb

include
* third-person singular present indicative of includere

### Anagrams

* dulcine, nuclide

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈkluː.de/, [ɪŋˈkɫ̪uːd̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈklu.de/, [iŋˈkluːd̪e]

### Verb

inclūde
* second-person singular present active imperative of inclūdō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin includere. Doublet of the inherited închide.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inˈklude/

### Verb

a include (third-person singular present include, past participle inclus) 3rd conjugation
* to include
    Antonym: exclude

#### Derived terms

* includere

#### Related terms

* închis
* inclus
* inclusiv
* incluziune