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“includes”
include (verb), includes; included; including
1. To have within itself, to contain, to comprise: Joe's farm includes agricultural land, pastures, and a forest area.
Last evening, Monica and Jerry were dining out with a meal that included an appetizer, the main course, dessert, and coffee.
2. To put in a total, a class, or a group: Ted and his family were buying property for a price that is including the land, a house, and a big two-car garage.Include can be used in an unrestrictive way implying that there might be other things that are not specifically mentioned or that there is more than what is listed.
3. Etymology: from Latin includere, "to enclose, to shut in"; from in-, "in, into" + claudere, "to shut, to close".
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clud-, claud-, claus-, clos-, -clude, -clois, -cluding, -cluded, -clus, -clusion, -clusive
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(Greek: deep, depth; the fauna and flora of the bottom of the sea; sea bottom; depth [by extension, this element includes lake, river, and stream bottoms])
(Latin: human beings, mankind; literally, "man, men"; however, it now also includes, "woman, women" or all of humanity)
(Greek: leukos, white; the primary meaning now is the color "white"; but it also includes the meanings of "light, clear, bright")
(Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain)