The difference between Absorb and Incorporate

When used as verbs, absorb means to include so that it no longer has separate existence, whereas incorporate means to include (something) as a part.

Incorporate is also adjective with the meaning: corporate.

check bellow for the other definitions of Absorb and Incorporate

  1. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

  2. Absorb as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

  3. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

  4. Absorb as a verb (transitive, physics, chemistry):

    To take in energy and convert it, as in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil. in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo. taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.

    Examples:

    "Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass."

  5. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully

  6. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    To occupy or consume time.

  7. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    Assimilate mentally.

  8. Absorb as a verb (transitive, business):

    To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.

  9. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    To defray the costs.

  10. Absorb as a verb (transitive):

    To accept or purchase in quantity.

  1. Incorporate as a verb (transitive):

    To include (something) as a part.

    Examples:

    "The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase."

    "to incorporate another's ideas into one's work"

  2. Incorporate as a verb (transitive):

    To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

    Examples:

    "Incorporate air into the mixture."

  3. Incorporate as a verb (transitive):

    To admit as a member of a company

  4. Incorporate as a verb (transitive):

    To form into a legal company.

    Examples:

    "The company was incorporated in 1980."

  5. Incorporate as a verb (US, legal):

    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. Incorporate as a verb:

    To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.

  7. Incorporate as a verb:

    To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.

  1. Incorporate as an adjective (obsolete):

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

  2. Incorporate as an adjective:

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

  3. Incorporate as an adjective:

    Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

    Examples:

    "an incorporate banking association"

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