incorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərāt
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.e(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹe(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərət
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
Forms: form: incorporates
form: incorporating
form: incorporated
form: incorporated
Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
text: to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
text: The Romans[…] did not subdue a country in order to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
ref: 1716 March 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 19. Friday, February 24. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
text: In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.
ref: 1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66:
text: The new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:
text: So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
synonyms: word: absorb
word: add on
word: assimilate
word: co-opt
word: corporate
word: incorporate
word: incorpse
word: integrate
word: subsume
word: swallow
glosses: To include (something) as a part.
examples: text: Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
glosses: To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
glosses: To admit as a member of a company
examples: text: The company was incorporated in 1980.
glosses: To form into a legal company.
topics: law
glosses: 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).
examples: text: By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
glosses: To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
examples: text: do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them
ref: 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:
glosses: To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
Derived terms: bioincorporate
disincorporate
incorporated
incorporative
incorporator
misincorporate
preincorporate
reincorporate
unincorporate