include > define

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.