Include and Span

verb

• Have as a part, be made up out of.
  • usage: "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
• Consider as part of something.
  • usage: "I include you in the list of culprits"
• Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category.
  • usage: "We must include this chemical element in the group"
• Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.
  • usage: "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
  • synonyms: admit, let in

• (v.t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.
• (v.t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
• (v.t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

noun

• The complete duration of something.
  • usage: "the job was finished in the span of an hour"
• The distance or interval between two points.
• Two items of the same kind.
  • synonyms: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad
• A unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches. )
• A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc..
  • synonyms: bridge
• The act of sitting or standing astride.
  • synonyms: straddle

verb

• To cover or extend over an area or time period.
  • usage: "Rivers traverse the valley floor, "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
  • synonyms: cross, traverse, sweep

• (v.t.) Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
• (v.t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge or the like, between its supports.
• (v.t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
• (v.t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
• (v.t.) To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
• (v.t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
• imp. & p. p. of Spin.
• (v.t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
• (v.t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
• (v.i.) To be matched, as horses.
• (imp.) of Spin.

To cover all contingencies within a specified range.