The difference between Incorporate and Swallow

When used as verbs, incorporate means to include (something) as a part, whereas swallow means to cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach.

Incorporate is also adjective with the meaning: corporate.

Swallow is also noun with the meaning: a deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

check bellow for the other definitions of Incorporate and Swallow

  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. Swallow as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.

  2. Swallow as a verb (transitive):

    To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.

  3. Swallow as a verb (intransitive):

    To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.

    Examples:

    "My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow."

  4. Swallow as a verb (transitive):

    To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.

  5. Swallow as a verb:

    To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.

  6. Swallow as a verb:

    To retract; to recant.

    Examples:

    "to swallow one's opinions"

  7. Swallow as a verb:

    To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

    Examples:

    "to swallow an affront or insult"

  1. Swallow as a noun (archaic):

    A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

  2. Swallow as a noun:

    The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

    Examples:

    "He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water."

  3. Swallow as a noun (Nigeria):

    Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.

  1. Swallow as a noun:

    A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

  2. Swallow as a noun (nautical):

    The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ham. Nav. Encyc"

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