involve
verbEtymology
PIE word *h₁én From Late Middle English involven (“to cloud; to encumber; to envelop, surround; to ponder (something); (reflexive) to concern (oneself) with something”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French involver, envoudre, or from its etymon Latin involvere, the present active infinitive of Latin involvō (“to roll to or upon something; to roll about; to coil or curl up; to cover; to envelop, wrap up; to overwhelm”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + volvō (“to roll; to tumble”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; to wind (turn coils)”)).
- derived from involvō — “to roll to or upon something; to roll about; to coil or curl up; to cover; to envelop, wrap up; to overwhelm”
- derived from involvere
- derived from involver
- inherited from involven — “to cloud; to encumber; to envelop, surround; to ponder (something); (reflexive) to concern (oneself) with something”
Definitions
To have (something) as a component or a related part
To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
- My job involves forecasting economic trends.
- But there remaineth yet another vſe of POESY PARABOLICAL, […] That is vvhen the Secrets and Miſteries of Religion, Pollicy, or Philoſophy, are inuolued in Fables or Parables. Of this in diuine Poeſie, vvee ſee the vſe is authoriſed.
- Some have vvritten Myſtically, as Paracelſus, […] involving therein the ſecret of their Elixir, and enigmatically expreſſing the nature of their great vvorke.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to…
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
- By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
- How can we involve the audience more during the show?
- I don’t want to involve him in my personal affairs.
To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several…
To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation.
- to involve a person in debt or misery
- [O]ld Œdipus / Would be amazd, and take it in foule snufs / That such Cymerian darknes should involve / A quaint conceit that he could not resolve.
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To cover or envelop (something) completely
To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround.
- to involve in darkness or obscurity
- [T]he vviſe mans eyes keepe vvatch in his head vvhereas the foole roundeth about in darkneſſe: but vvithall I learned that the ſame mortalitie inuolueth them both.
To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds
To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round.
- VVe muſt be ſtiffe and ſteddie in reſolue. / Let's thus our hands, our hearts, our armes inuolue.
- [S]ome of Serpent kinde / Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd / Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings.
To make (something) intricate
To make (something) intricate; to complicate.
- And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.
- [H]e ſeemed rather vvilling to diſpatch the buſines vvith judgement, then to involue it vvith nice diſtinctions.
- The distribution and configuration of the land, together with the influence of the winds, greatly involve the problem of the tides, and render it one of the most difficult in the whole range of physics.
To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times
To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power.
- a quantity involved to the third or fourth power
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at involve. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at involve. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at involve
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA