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
- 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 lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
- verb To include (something) in surrounding matter.
- verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
- 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.