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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context obsolete intransitive English) To exist, to be. 2 (context intransitive English) To be comprised or contained (term: in). 3 (context intransitive English) To be composed, formed, or made up (term: of). Etymology 2 n. (context ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a collection consists of/contains sth ▪ The collection consists of some 500 items. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB almost ▪ Some harp parts consist almost entirely of zig-zag lines! entirely ▪ Certainly, it is no justification ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consist \Con*sist"\ (k[o^]n*s[i^]st"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consisted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Consisting .] [L. consistere to stand still or firm; con- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, stare to stand: cf. F. consister. See Stand .] To stand firm; to be in a ...

Usage examples of consist.

Iraqi intelligence sources reported that Iranian forces in Khuzestan, which had formerly included two divisions distributed among Ahvaz, Dezful, and Abadan, now consisted of only a number of ill-equipped battalion-sized formations.

They consisted of forts crowning a succession of rounded hills, and connected by earthen ramparts, loopholed houses, ditches, and an abattis of felled trees.

Hannah Dustan and the nurse fell to the share of a family consisting of two warriors, three squaws, and seven children, who separated from the rest, and, hunting as they went, moved northward towards an Abenaki village, two hundred and fifty miles distant, probably that of the mission on the Chaudiere.

The second consisted of information on the bid by Clean Mountain Enterprises to annex a large section of the Absaroka Range in Wyoming.

Its odour is lemon-like, and depends on a volatile essential oil which consists chiefly of absinthol, and is common to the other Wormwoods.

A committee was appointed, the Committee of Five, as it became known, consisting of Jefferson, Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin, who had by now returned from his expedition to Canada but was ill and exhausted and rarely seen.

But the Ryoanji garden, consisting solely of rocks and sand, is so extremely severe in layout that it seems to be an ultimate visual depiction of the medieval aesthetics of the withered, cold, and lonely.

This bank consists of alluvia, or large heaps of organic matter, brought either from the Equator by the Gulf Stream, or from the North Pole by the counter-current of cold water which skirts the American coast.

Its tableau consists of a modern tabula recta: 26 standard horizontal alphabets, each slid one space to the left of the one above.

James alters the course of modern fiction by fashioning a narrative theory and repertory that consist, largely, of one quivering consciousness trying to make out what is happening around it, usually found in those other consciousnesses it must deal with.

The hygienic treatment of this form of amenorrhea, then, consists in physical culture, regular bathing, and the regulation of the bowels, if constipated, as suggested in this volume under the head of constipation.

To a real Amsterdammer, Holland consisted of two parts: Amsterdam and the provinces.

It was like a line of verse anapestic tetrameter, or four metric feet, each foot consisting of three syllables, accented on the third.

The Department of Physiology of the University of Minnesota reported that the material used for the demonstration of physiological and pathological phenomena before students consisted of 88 dogs, 74 cats, and 420 other animals, making a total of 582 for the year 1914.

He had raised an armed band, consisting of some Aragonese gentlemen and their servants, and with this he fell like a thunderbolt upon the Castilian men-at-arms and the familiars of the Inquisition.