includes

Verb

include (third-person singular simple present includes, present participle including, simple past and past participle included)

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.
3. (obsolete) To enclose, confine.
   • I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit., New York, 2001, p.107
4. (obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.
   • Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
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.

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