involve

Definition of involve in English English dictionary: To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb; To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure; To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply; 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; To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery; To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine; To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity; Status: involved; To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge; to draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively; {f} include; cause to be concerned with, entangle; engage, engross; complicate; incriminate, cause to be connected with; 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"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent"; If you involve someone else in something, you get them to take part in it. Noel and I do everything together, he involves me in everything; contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"; engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"; connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"; make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"; If you say that someone involves themselves in something, you mean that they take part in it, often in a way that is unnecessary or unwanted. I seem to have involved myself in something I don't understand; have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes"; engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!; If a situation or activity involves something, that thing is a necessary part or consequence of it. Running a kitchen involves a great deal of discipline and speed Nicky's job as a public relations director involves spending quite a lot of time with other people. = entail; make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved" occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" wrap; "The tower was involved in mist" contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!; wrap; "The tower was involved in mist"; If one thing involves you in another thing, especially something unpleasant or inconvenient, the first thing causes you to do or deal with the second. A late booking may involve you in extra cost; If a situation or activity involves someone, they are taking part in it. If there was a cover-up, it involved people at the very highest levels of government; occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
involved: Simple past tense and past participle of involve
The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.
involved: Having an affair with someone
involved: Associated with others (in a crime, process, etc.)
When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
involvement: The act of involving, or the state of being involved
involved: {s} included; concerned with, entangled; engaged, engrossed; complicated; incriminated, connected with
involvement: {i} inclusion; participation, connection, association; complexity; entanglement
ınvolve: {v} to entangle, engage, mix, raise, imply
involved: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
involved: If one person is involved with another, especially someone they are not married to, they are having a sexual or romantic relationship. He became romantically involved with a married woman
involved: If a situation or activity is involved, it has a lot of different parts or aspects, often making it difficult to understand, explain, or do. The operations can be quite involved, requiring many procedures. = complicated, complex
involved: The things involved in something such as a job or system are the necessary parts or consequences of it. We believe the time and hard work involved in completing such an assignment are worthwhile
involved: If you are involved in something, you give a lot of time, effort, or attention to it. The family were deeply involved in Jewish culture
involved: associated with others (in a crime etc)
involved: emotionally involved entangled or hindered as if e
involved: enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
involved: in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
involved: entangled or hindered as if e g in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
involved: emotionally involved
involved: complicated
involved: enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved
involved: connected by participation or association or use; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"; "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"
involved: If you are involved in a situation or activity, you are taking part in it or have a strong connection with it. If she were involved in business, she would make a strong chief executive
involved: Same as Involute
involved: in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" connected by participation or association or use; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"; "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified" enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved
involvement: the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
involvement: The level of interest, emotion and activity which the consumer is prepared to expend on a particular purchase p 112
involvement: The result of a full commitment to your part and your character
involvement: Involvement is the enthusiasm that you feel when you care deeply about something. Ben has always felt a deep involvement with animals
involvement: The type of interaction between an actor and a task, such as information input, output or bi-directional flow Drawn as an undirected line in the Task Sketch, which is elaborated using single- or bi-directional arrowheads to show information flow in the Task Model
involvement: a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen
involvement: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
involvement: Your involvement in something is the fact that you are taking part in it. She disliked his involvement with the group and disliked his friends
involvement: The inclusion of other people important to a dispute
involvement: The level of perceived personal importance or interest evoked by a stimulus (or stimuli) within a specific situation
involvement: the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc )
involvement: The degree to which the client has her attention focused on resolving the issues being worked at in the session
involvement: According to critical theory of communication, organizational stakeholders' free expression of ideas that may or may not affect managerial decisions
involvement: a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen"
involvement: a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something; "an interest in music"
involvement: An involvement is a close relationship between two people, especially if they are not married to each other. They were very good friends but there was no romantic involvement
involves: third-person singular of involve
involving: Present participle of to involve