different between incorporate vs comprehend

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Late Latin incorpor?tus, perfect passive participle of incorpor? (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??p?e(?)t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??(?).p??.e?t/
  • (US) enPR: ?nkôr'p?r?t, IPA^(key): /???k??p?e?t/
• (adjective)
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??(?).p??.?t/
  • (US) enPR: ?nkôr'p?r?t, IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/

Verb

incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated)

1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.

5. (US, law) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
7. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
   • 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

     do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them

Derived terms

• incorporated

Translations

Adjective

incorporate (comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate)

1. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

Etymology 2

in- (“not”) +? corporate

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??(?).p??.?t/
• (US) enPR: ?nkôr'p?r?t, IPA^(key): /???k??p??t/

Adjective

incorporate (not comparable)

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.

   • Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.

   • 1905, Leonid Andreyev, trans. Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript:

     The air vibrated at a white-hot temperature, the stones seemed to be trembling silently, ready to flow, and in the distance, at a curve of the road, the files of men, guns and horses seemed detached from the earth, and trembled like a mass of jelly in their onward progress, and it seemed to me that they were not living people that I saw before me, but an army of incorporate shadows.

2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

Antonyms

• corporate, corporeal

Anagrams

• procreation

Italian

Verb

incorporate

1. second-person plural present indicative of incorporare
2. second-person plural imperative of incorporare
3. feminine plural of incorporato

Anagrams

• crepitarono
• patrocinerò
• portoricane

Latin

Verb

incorpor?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incorpor?

English

Etymology

From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?mp???h?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?mp???h?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

comprehend (third-person singular simple present comprehends, present participle comprehending, simple past and past participle comprehended)

1. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.1:

     And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2009, p. 9:

     In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

2. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly. [from 14th c.]

Related terms

Translations

French

Verb

comprehend

1. third-person singular present indicative of comprehendre