2023-05-24 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด I – Involve & entail

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Involve = ‘in-VOLV’

ออกเสียง Entail = 

– verb = ‘en’TEYL’

– noun = ‘en-TEYL’ or ‘EN-teyl”

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Involve & entail

These words are closely related in meaning 

but have slightly different applications.

 

Involve means 

“to contain or include,” 

“to have as an essential feature or necessary consequence,” 

“to absorb,” 

“to complicate”:

“My work Involves a lot of hard work.”

“This contract Involves monthly payments for services rendered.”

“Do not try to Involve me in your problems.”

 

Entail shares these meaning of Involve 

but more particularly means 

“to impose as a burden or problem,” and, in legal use, 

“to limit and direct the succession of property”: 

“Losing weight usually entails controlling one’s appetite.”

“The attorney will so entail the estate that you can inherit nothing.”

 

Dictionary.com

SYNONYM STUDY FOR INVOLVE

Involve, entangle, implicate 

imply getting a person connected or bound up 

with something from which it is difficult 

to extricate himself or herself. 

 

To involve is to bring more or less deeply 

into something, especially 

of a complicated, embarrassing, or troublesome nature: 

to involve someone in debt. 

 

To entangle (usually passive or reflexive) 

is to involve so deeply in a tangle 

as to confuse and make helpless: 

to entangle oneself in a mass of contradictory statements. 

 

To implicate is to connect a person with something discreditable or wrong: 

implicated in a plot.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for involve

INCLUDE, COMPREHEND, EMBRACE, INVOLVE 

mean to contain within as part of the whole.

 

INCLUDE suggests the containment of something 

as a constituent, component, or 

subordinate part of a larger whole.  

the price of dinner includes dessert  

 

COMPREHEND implies that something comes within the scope of a statement or definition.  

his system comprehends all history  

 

EMBRACE implies a gathering of separate items 

within a whole.  

her faith embraces both Christian and non-Christian beliefs  

INVOLVE suggests inclusion by virtue of the nature of the whole, whether by being its natural or inevitable consequence.  

the new job involves a lot of detail