involve

[In*volveĀ·]

To involve means to connect. When you get involved in the Spanish Club, you attend meetings and events. If doing math well is involved in understanding advanced chemistry, that means it's a necessary part of it.

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

Verb
make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"

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occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"

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wrap; "The tower was involved in mist"

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require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert";

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contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe''s always involves at least six courses"

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have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes"

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connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"

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engage as a participant; "Don''t involve me in your family affairs!"


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.


Involve

In*volve" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Involved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Involving.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver. See Voluble, and cf. Involute.] 1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a sing'8ad bottom all involved With stench and smoke.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. "Involved discourses." Locke. 4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knows His end with mine involved.
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [R.]
The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng.
Earth with hell To mingle and involve.
6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery. 7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study." Sir W. Scott. 8. (Math.) 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. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion.

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Usage Examples

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

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Other Usage Examples

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

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