The difference between Incorporate and Integrate

When used as verbs, incorporate means to include (something) as a part, whereas integrate means to form into one whole.

Incorporate is also adjective with the meaning: corporate.

check bellow for the other definitions of Incorporate and Integrate

  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"

  1. Integrate as a verb:

    To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

  2. Integrate as a verb:

    To include as a constituent part or functionality.

    Examples:

    "They were keen to integrate their new skills into the performance."

  3. Integrate as a verb:

    To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.

  4. Integrate as a verb (mathematics):

    To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.

  5. Integrate as a verb:

    To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

    Examples:

    "The refugees were well integrated into the community."

  6. Integrate as a verb (genetics):

    To combine compatible elements in order to incorporate them.

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