Involve
[ɪn'vɒlv] or [ɪn'vɑlv]
Definition
(verb.) make complex or intricate or complicated; 'The situation was rather involved'.
(verb.) occupy or engage the interest of; 'His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon'.
(verb.) contain as a part; 'Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses'.
(verb.) connect closely and often incriminatingly; 'This new ruling affects your business'.
(verb.) engage as a participant; 'Don't involve me in your family affairs!'.
Typed by Dominic--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
(v. t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
(v. t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
(v. t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
(v. t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
(v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
(v. t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
(v. t.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
Typed by Floyd
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Envelop, inwrap, wrap, cover.[2]. Include (as a consequence), imply, comprise, embrace, contain.[3]. Entangle, implicate.[4]. Complicate, make intricate.[5]. Join, conjoin, connect, unite, mingle, blend.[6]. Twine, intwine, intertwine, interweave, interlace, inweave, twist together.
Checker: Trent
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Implicate, confound, mingle, envelop, compromise, include, complicate,entangle
ANT:Separate, extricate, disconnect
Checker: Natalia
Definition
v.t. to wrap up: to envelop: to implicate: to include: to complicate: to overwhelm: to catch: (arith.) to multiply a quantity into itself any given number of times.—n. Involve′ment act of involving: state of being involved or entangled.
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Examples
- A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Single men have, no doubt, a right to curse themselves as much as they please; but men with wives involve two in the doom they pray down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Thus, for the second time, did Mr. Pickwick's innate good-feeling involve him in an enterprise from which he would most willingly have stood aloof. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Involve, said Phineas, with a curious and keen expression of face, When thee does involve me, please to let me know. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As considered from other points of view, such cases will always involve more or less unpleasantness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And yet that would involve treachery towards the mistress to whom this woman seems devoted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the generation of this mighty force improvements have been made, but those of greatest power still involve the principles discovered by Faraday and Henry seventy years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Subsequent changes involved the rotating of the cylinder instead of the wheels and many modifications in the form of the wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This alone involved an incalculable setback to the march of scientific thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Some knowledge of anatomy was involved in the removal of the viscera, and much more in a particular method they followed in removing the brain. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If the distance is short, so that few air particles are involved, the time required for transmission is very brief, and the sound is heard at practically the instant it is made. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I have felt uneasy for the consequences of his being so involved, but I have kept these secrets until now, when I trust them to your honour. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Moreove r, they worked simple equations involving one unknown, and had a hieroglyph for a million (the drawing of a man overcome with wonder), and another for ten million. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Only a personal response involving imagination can possibly procure realization even of pure facts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In this illustration, the circuit, it will be seen, passes through both the coils of the field magnets and the coils of the armature, involving the principle of mutual excitation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Tell her, to-night, what you know of her danger as involving her child and her father. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I am always involving myself in some scrape or other, by acting on impulse. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A dozen years ago, he perfects an invention (involving a very curious secret process) of great importance to his country and his fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear the one without involving the other. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The story of the piano, that queen of musical instruments, involves the whole history of the art of music. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The production of engravings is just as highly technical and scientific and involves as much experience and judgment in their application as any of the learned professions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is pertinent, however, to inquire why the idea is so current that work involves subordination of an activity to an ulterior material result. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And what is particularly eligible in the property Mr Boffin, is, that it involves no trouble. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It involves the structure of the limbs and the nervous system; the principles of mechanics. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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