incorporare — meaning in English
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English meaning
- absorb verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
- embed verb To set (something) as if into a bed; to set it within surrounding material; to bed it.
- incorporate verb To include something as a part of a larger whole.
Senses
incorporare is used for these senses in English:
- absorb (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]
- embed (transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
absorb — full definition
- verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
- verb To take in and reduce the force of an impact, sound, or shock.
- verb To fully occupy someone's attention or interest.
- verb To take on a cost so that others don't have to pay it.
embed — full definition
- verb To set (something) as if into a bed; to set it within surrounding material; to bed it.
- verb To put something inside something else so it becomes part of it.
- verb To put a piece of content, such as a video or image, inside a webpage or document.
- verb To construct a one-to-one function between two sets so that certain features of the source set survive when its image is viewed as a subset of the target set.
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