The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comprise \Com*prise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Comprised; p. pr. & vb. n. Comprising.] [From F. compris, comprise, p. p. of comprendre, L. comprehendere. See Comprehend.] To comprehend; to include.
Comprise much matter in few words.
--Hocker.
Friendship does two souls in one comprise.
--Roscommon.
Syn: To embrace; include; comprehend; contain; encircle; inclose; involve; imply.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of comprise English)
Usage examples of "comprising".
During biblical times it was the Jewish homeland, comprising the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The language of diplomacy appeared to be rooted in both the new and old forms, comprising more sign than was used by Big Eyes—which bored her and the other young members of the council—and more verbiage than Keff's version, which confused the brawn.
There were ten in the string, each comprising sounds, signals, and signs that were thought to have universal significance.
That was agreed though the other two ships comprising the squadron were to be sent back to be refitted.
An arbitration board had been voted on at one of the first mass meetings, comprising three ex-judges, two former governors, and four non-legal people who would hold their offices for two years.
Dropped from a fair height, the thick, coarse strands of rope comprising the net struck with the force of a club.
And indeed, Fitzfarris was also distracted and desultory in his presentation of his depleted exhibition, now comprising only the Night Children, the egg-laying glukhár, Kostchei the Deathless, the Egyptian Princess mummy, the midget Syverchok and her little horse, Rumpelstilzchen.
Monplaisir was a tremendous but exquisitely delicate structure, comprising mainly great expanses of window, in which the multitude of panes were of "moon glass" that reflected rainbows in all the pastel colors of mother-of-pearl.
There was the Legion des Volontaires, consisting of all the city's Polish émigrés, and les Amis de France, consisting of all the Belgians, Englishmen and Italians resident in the city—and even les Francs-tireurs de la Presse, comprising journalists, poets, novelists and feuilletonistes who, apparently unsatisfied with merely writing about war, now wished to experience one.
A modulated signal ("beep," "beep-beep," ) comprising the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 1 7, 19, 23, 29, 31, for example, consists exclusively of the first 12 prime numbers-that is, numbers that can be divided only by 1, or by themselves.
The signal was sent to a collection of stars called M13, a globular cluster comprising about a million separate suns, because it was overhead at the time of the ceremony.
These molecular building blocks are put together to form a long molecule of DNA comprising about four billion links in the chain.
My department is responsible for maintaining the mental health of a staff comprising sixty-odd different life-forms, and keeping that bunch happy and out of each other’s hair, or whatever, is more than enough for us.
He counted thirty of them comprising five different oxygen-breathing species, several of whom were being transported in gravity litters.
A life indication is the result of a large number of sensor readings comprising the type and distribution of power sources, vibration associated with the mechanical aspects of life-support systems, pressure and temperature variations within the hull, detection of communication or lighting systems, and many more subtle indications.