INCORPORATED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Incorporated

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnkˈɔrpərˌeɪtəd/ /ɪnkˈɔrpərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Incorporate v. t. (past & past part. incorporated; pres. part. incorporating)

1.

To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass. "By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one."

2.

To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. "The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein."

3.

To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; used with with and into.

4.

To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work. "The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community."

5.

To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

Incorporate v. i. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; usually followed by with. "Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil." "He never suffers wrong so long to grow, And to incorporate with right so far As it might come to seem the same in show."

adjective

Incorporated adj.

1.

United or combined together to form in one body.

2.

Formed into a corporation and registered with a government body as such; made a legal entity.

See images of 'Incorporated'

Etymology of 'Incorporated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Incorporated" Quotes from Famous Books

... proceed, in the first instance, to the capital city of his state, Hanover, now no longer a kingdom, but only a small division of the great empire into which it was incorporated. For him there was no chance of evasion or getting out of the obligation to serve, for the whilom "kingdom" having withstood to the last during the six weeks' war the onward progress to victory of the all-devouring Prussians, her citizens would be at once ...

— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson

... greatest figure in ancient astronomy. He gathered up the wisdom of the philosophers who had preceded him. He incorporated this with the results of his own observations, and illumined it with his theories. His speculations, even when they were, as we now know, quite erroneous, had such an astonishing verisimilitude to the actual facts of nature that they commanded universal assent. Even ...

— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball

... A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a {quick-and-dirty} remedy to an existing bug or misfeature. A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program. Distinguished from a {diff} or {mod} by the fact that a patch is generated by more primitive means than the rest of the program; the classical examples are instructions modified ...

— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10

... as a kind of law that the public should be indulged from time to time the sullen satisfaction of yawning over these productions. If the reason should afterwards be sought, why the greatest geniuses who have been incorporated into that body have sometimes made the worst speeches, I answer, that it is wholly owing to a strong propension, the gentlemen in question had to shine, and to display a thread-bare, worn-out subject in a new and uncommon light. The necessity ...

— Letters on England • Voltaire

... the mouths of large rivers, or great cataracts, where they accumulate till they are broken off by their own weight. My observations will not allow me to acquiesce in this opinion; because we never found any of the ice which we took up incorporated with earth, or any of its produce, as I think it must have been, had it been coagulated in land-waters. It is a doubt with me, whether there be any rivers in these countries. It is certain, that we saw not a river, or stream ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com