incorporate
UK /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/ · US /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/ verb, adjective
Forms incorporates incorporating incorporated
- verb (transitive) To include (something) as a part. “The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.”
- verb (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend “Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.”
- verb (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
- verb (transitive) To form into a legal company. “The company was incorporated in 1980.”
- verb (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).
- verb To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
- verb To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
- adjective (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
- adjective Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
- adjective Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation. “an incorporate banking association”
Synonyms
absorb add on assimilate co-opt corporate incorpse integrate subsume swallow contain comprise incorporated integrated merged unified
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).
From in- (“not”) + corporate.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
- adjective Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.
- adjective Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
- verb To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. into one consistent mass.
Etymology [L. incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate.]
Etymology [L. incorporatus, p. p. of incorporare to incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make into a body. See Corporate.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “incorporate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details