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Involve vs. Entail — What's the Difference?

Involve vs. Entail — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Involve and Entail

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Involve

Have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result
A bill proposing harsher penalties for crimes involving firearms and drugs
My job involves a lot of travelling

Entail

Involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence
A situation which entails considerable risks

Involve

To have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail
Was told that the job would involve travel.

Entail

Limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group
Her father's estate was entailed on a cousin

Involve

To relate to or affect
The matter is serious because it involves your reputation.
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Entail

A limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations
Landed property was governed by primogeniture and entail
The damage being done in England by entails

Involve

To cause to burn; spread to
The blaze involved the house next door.

Entail

To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence
The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.

Involve

To engage as a participant; embroil
The bystanders got involved in a dispute with the police.

Entail

To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.

Involve

To show to be a participant; connect or implicate
Evidence that involved the governor in the scandal.

Entail

To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.

Involve

To engage (oneself) in a love affair
Was involved with a colleague at work.

Entail

The act of entailing, especially property.

Involve

To occupy or engage the interest of
A story that completely involved me for the rest of the evening.

Entail

The state of being entailed.

Involve

To wrap; envelop
A castle that was involved in mist.

Entail

An entailed estate.

Involve

(Archaic) To wind or coil about.

Entail

A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office.

Involve

(transitive) To comprise or include; to have as a related part.
My job involves forecasting economic trends.

Entail

Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance.

Involve

(transitive) To cause or engage (someone or something) to participate or to become connected or implicated.
How can we involve the audience more during the show?
By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
I don't want to involve him in my personal affairs.
We are always trying to involve new technology in our products.

Entail

(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

Involve

To envelop, enfold, entangle.
To involve a person in debt or misery

Entail

(transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.

Involve

To complicate or make intricate.

Entail

To appoint hereditary possessor.

Involve

(largely obsolete) To take in; to gather in; to mingle, blend or merge.

Entail

To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Involve

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

Entail

That which is entailed.

Involve

(archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

Entail

An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

Involve

(archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
To involve in darkness or obscurity

Entail

The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Involve

(archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

Entail

(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Involve

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . . involvedTheir snaky folds.

Entail

That which is entailed.
A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.

Involve

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a singèd bottom all involvedWith stench and smoke.

Entail

Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Involve

To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

Entail

To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; - said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
Allowing them to entail their estates.
I here entailThe crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.

Involve

To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knowsHis end with mine involved.
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

Entail

To appoint hereditary possessor.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.

Involve

To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
The gathering number, as it moves along,Involves a vast involuntary throng.
Earth with hellTo mingle and involve.

Entail

To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Entailed with curious antics.

Involve

To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

Entail

Land received by fee tail

Involve

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

Entail

The act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple

Involve

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.

Entail

Have as a logical consequence;
The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers

Involve

Connect closely and often incriminatingly;
This new ruling affects your business

Entail

Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result;
What does this move entail?

Involve

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

Entail

Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs

Involve

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

Involve

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

Involve

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

Involve

Wrap;
The tower was involved in mist

Involve

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

Involve

Make complex or intricate or complicated;
The situation was rather involved

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