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contribute

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Word definitions for contribute in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a contributing author (= someone who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine, or who writes part of a book, report etc ) ▪ Ms Gomez was a contributing author to Chapter 1 of the WG II Report. a contributing factor ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program" [syn: lend , impart , bestow , add , bring ] contribute ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contribute \Con*trib"ute\, v. i. To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect. We are engaged in war; the secretary of state calls upon the colonies to contribute. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin contributus , past participle of contribuere "to bring together, add, unite, collect, contribute" (see contribution ). Figurative sense is from 1630s. Related: Contributed ; contributing .

Usage examples of contribute.

Muravieff has performed in achieving a level of quality education for the inmates at Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility, and because he feels she has contributed substantially to the lowest rate of recidivism for a corrections facility in the state and one of the lowest rates in the nation, because Victoria Bannister Muravieff has set a standard for community service under the most difficult of conditions, with a selfless disregard for her own situation and a commitment to the rehabilitation of people the rest of us have given up on long ago, the governor has decided to commute her sentence to time served.

Although the intermingling of various linguistic and cultural groups contributed greatly to the enrichment of Islamic civilization, it also was a source of great tension and contributed to the decay of Abbasid power.

And however much was owed to the writings of others, as Jefferson acknowledged, or to such editorial refinements as those contributed by Franklin or Adams, they were, when all was said and done, his lines.

Other pugilists, contributing to other papers, groaned under the supervision of a member of the staff who cut out their best passages and altered the rest into Addisonian English.

The original eleven legions numbered between the Fifth Alauda and the Fifteenth contributed these five thousand veterans, kitted in new tunics, with new horsehair plumes in their helmets, and carrying staves wreathed in laurelsactual weapons were not allowed.

Caterpillar also contributes to the continuing, growing antipathy between Alice and the creatures of Wonderland.

Europe scientific tests have proven that the Andalusian contributed to the development of the Connemara, the Cleveland Bay, the Friesan, the Hackney, the Percheron, the Thoroughbred, and the Welsh.

Even admitting that experiments on animals have contributed to the relief of human suffering, such measure of relief is infinitesimal compared with the pain which has been inflicted to secure it.

Their skins are chocolate-tinted but their faces betray the genetic mishmash that is their ancestry - perhaps they call themselves Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Mafulu, in the way that he calls himself a Jew, but they have been liberally larded with chromosomes contributed by Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, Africans, everything.

John Walker had a wagon, which was merely a set of wheels, with a board floor laid on the axletrees, and the use of this he contributed in consideration of a little larger share in the profits.

They boated across to Belgica and contributed their mite to Belgic misery.

The bulk of Mohammedans come from the Northwest Frontier Province and the Punjab, but Rajputana, Central India, the United Provinces, Bihar, and Madras all contribute.

The practice introduced into that province of appointing bishops to the most inconsiderable towns, and very frequently to the most obscure villages, contributed to multiply the splendor and importance of their religious societies, which during the course of the third century were animated by the zeal of Tertullian, directed by the abilities of Cyprian, and adorned by the eloquence of Lactantius.

We lighted up several fires, and by the aid of some loose branches, and the bark of trees, by means of which was made a breakwind, I shortly began to feel tolerably comfortable, to which some kangaroo steaks and brandy-and-water not a little contributed.

We must commit to exercise because inactive lifestyles contribute to weight gain, elevated blood fats, cardiovascular disease, cancer, reduced blood sugar regulation, and increased depression, memory loss, cognitive dysfunction, fatigue, and a host of other emotional and physical problems.