The difference between Contain and Incorporate

When used as verbs, contain means to hold inside, whereas incorporate means to include (something) as a part.

Incorporate is also adjective with the meaning: corporate.

check bellow for the other definitions of Contain and Incorporate

  1. Contain as a verb (transitive):

    To hold inside.

  2. Contain as a verb (transitive):

    To include as a part.

  3. Contain as a verb (transitive):

    To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

    Examples:

    "I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!"

  4. Contain as a verb (mathematics, of a [[set]] etc., transitive):

    To have as an element or subset.

    Examples:

    "A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements."

    "If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning."

  5. Contain as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

  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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