Involve
Alternative forms
Origin
From Latin involvere.
Full definition of involve
Verb
- To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- John MiltonSome of serpent kind ... involved
Their snaky folds. - To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
- John MiltonAnd leave a singèd bottom all involved
With stench and smoke. - To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- John LockeInvolved discourses.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 17, The face which emerged was not reassuring. …. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
- To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- John MiltonHe knows
His end with mine involved. - TillotsonThe contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
- 2013, Sarah Glaz, Ode to Prime Numbers, Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
- To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- Alexander PopeThe gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves a vast involuntary throng. - John MiltonEarth with hell
To mingle and involve. - To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.to involve a person in debt or misery
- To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
- Sir Walter ScottInvolved in a deep study.
- (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.a quantity involved to the third or fourth power