embrace

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Including and containing
absorptive capacity
accessibly
all in
assimilable
assimilate
carry
drag
draw
draw someone into something
EDI
EDIB
embody
embracingly
involve
number someone/something among someone/something
O, o
pack something in
pepper
plug
seat

encompass | American Dictionary

encompass
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈkʌm·pəs/
to include several different things:
The plan encompasses repaving the street and planting 40 new trees.

Examples of encompass

encompass
It encompasses the whole learning process, including learning styles and strategies.
Nor does it ever encompass the recognition - or even part thereof - of more than one word.
To encompass the two parties and seven issue dimensions, we estimated fourteen separate models.
During the antebellum decades, just what sphere of activity the national government encompassed was debated amidst growing conflict-class, ethnic, partisan, and sectional.
Whether this calls for a new and "universally acceptable definition" of revolution that encompasses all that the author suggests is neither obvious nor realistic.
The related concept of inclusivity here refers to the unique ability of the arts to validate and encompass the individual's personal response or experience.
One paradigm involves motor tasks that encompass both planning and control, and thus reveals structures active during one or the other, or both stages.
Therefore, articles on risk reduction programs, screening programs, and rehabilitation programs were excluded, because these reports do not encompass the whole continuum of care.
We have suggested that, for our eighteenth-century writers, the concept of rationality was less narrowly defined, and could encompass dispositions as well as actions.
Moral philosophy as understood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompassed much more than ethical theory.
Soon the system of state control and the evaluation of biologicals was again enlarged to encompass organic diagnostics.
However, the short peptides did not encompass any sequence characteristic for functional domains of cysteine proteases.
The descriptor ' hermit ' here encompasses wandering solitaries, enclosed anchorites, hermit-monks and monk-hermits.
In so acting as norm entrepreneurs in international arenas, indigenous organisations are changing traditional statecentric international politics and its basic institutions to encompass different actors.
It encompasses a variety of artistic expressions : instrumental music, songs, dancing and theatre.
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