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incorporare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • absorb verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
  • embed verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • 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

  1. verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
  2. verb To take in and reduce the force of an impact, sound, or shock.
  3. verb To fully occupy someone's attention or interest.
  4. verb To take on a cost so that others don't have to pay it.

embed — full definition

  1. verb To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  2. verb To include (something) in surrounding matter.
  3. verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
  4. verb To define a one-to-one function from one set to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.

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