include

verb

1. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

   “I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.”

2. To consider as part of something; to comprehend.

   “The vacation package includes car rental.”

   “Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?”

   “I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.”

   “up to and including page twenty-five”

   “The whole included race, his purposed prey.”

3. (obsolete)To enclose, confine.

   “I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.”

4. (obsolete)To conclude; to terminate.

   “Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.”

5. To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.

   “You have to include the strings library to use this function.”

noun

1. A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

   “In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes, which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.”