Other forms: incorporated, incorporating, incorporates
To incorporate is to fold one thing into another so it becomes part of the whole. Incorporate the changes, incorporate the eggs, incorporate feedback.
In cooking it is a precise instruction: incorporate means fold in until no trace remains separate. In writing and design it means absorbing a suggestion into the work. In law, to incorporate a company is to create it as a legal person separate from its owners, which is the whole basis of limited liability. Note that the Latin means to take into a body.
1verbincorporateTo fold one thing into another so it becomes part of the whole.
“The designers incorporated many of the users' suggestions into the new version of the app.”
2verbcreateTo create a company as a legal person.
“The two friends incorporated their business so they wouldn't be personally liable for its debts.”
incorporate is a folding in.
Also accepted in games: include
Latin incorporare is in plus corpus, a body. Corporate, corpse and corps come from the same body.
Proto-Indo-European
*krep-
Latin
incorporātus
English, today
incorporate
Built from
From Middle English -, from Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus (“body”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA