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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consist
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 in itself for ruling out ads consisting entirely of words.
▪ He proposed designing a plane consisting entirely of flat triangles.
▪ In these terms, the original puzzle becomes that of why natural selection does not produce a population consisting entirely of hawks.
▪ These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly.
▪ The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
▪ These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
▪ He describes Lebna Dengel's capital as being the size of a town but consisting entirely of tents.
largely
▪ They are about 8 microns in diameter and probably consist largely of chlorides, that is, of compounds containing chlorine.
▪ Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose.
▪ The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds.
▪ A child's education may consist largely of the mastery of traditional skills to be done in a traditional way.
▪ Miscellaneous assets largely consist of payments owed but not yet received from other banks.
▪ For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period.
mainly
▪ The performance indicators which are produced consist mainly of data on payment, which makes useful analysis difficult.
▪ Much of the remaining 25 percent, consisting mainly of glass, metals, and ceramics, can be recovered and recycled.
▪ A board of directors of Salomon Brothers was born, consisting mainly of former traders.
▪ These consist mainly of extensions, alterations and garages.
▪ Currently both bodies consist mainly of educators.
▪ The external changes during growth are comparatively slight and consist mainly of an increase in size at each moult.
▪ The presidents' men have organised counter-demonstrations, mainly consisting of unenthusiastic state employees.
mostly
▪ The repertoire on the Erato set, consisting mostly of familiar Mravinsky favourites, may also give a misleading impression.
▪ And their dull appearance is often accompanied by teaching methods that consist mostly of scribbling graphs on a blackboard.
▪ At rest they consist mostly of head and neck and their wings project well beyond the tail.
▪ They consist mostly of quartz and feldspars, with a little mica or amphibole.
only
▪ Soon the whole species would consist only of parthenogenetic females.
▪ Despite their title, lecturers' teaching does not consist only, or even mainly, of giving lectures.
▪ Here, no vertebrates at all could be found, the fossils consisting only of invertebrates such as the trilobites.
▪ Without you Sunshine Breakfast would only consist of Cornflakes.
▪ Without the system electronically stored data/information can only consist of proto-records.
solely
▪ All would keep strict hours, their duties consisting solely in the preparation and delivery of their lessons.
usually
▪ Fights usually consist of three three-minute rounds, with a one-minute break between each round.
▪ These so-called always deductible expenses usually consist of home mortgage interest and real estate taxes.
▪ These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly.
▪ State board licensing examinations vary, but they usually consist of written and oral parts and include a demonstration of practical skills.
▪ These usually consist of large, naturalistic floral garlands or medallions set against an open or sparsely decorated field.
▪ A decentralised business will usually consist of independent profit centres or divisions.
▪ These precautions will usually consist of instructions sent out to managers.
■ NOUN
committee
▪ The creditors' committee must consist of at least three and not more than five creditors.
▪ The Steering Committee, consisting of anybody who came to the meetings, ended up with 37 people.
group
▪ A third, smaller group will consist of veterans whose illnesses can not be tied to Gulf War service, he said.
▪ One group might consist of the younger consumer end of the market and one might be business women of thirty-plus.
▪ The group can consist either of other elderly people, or special groups for people of all ages with an alcohol problem.
member
▪ The commission would consist of eight members, appointed for 10 years.
number
▪ The book is divided up into eight main sections consisting of a number of chapters which introduce a particular multivariate technique.
▪ Alphanumeric fields consist of letters, numbers, or both.
▪ A scale of this kind would normally consist of a number of such statements.
▪ For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period.
▪ These are created in conjunction with a skeleton layout for whatever document you wish to produce and consist of a number of tags.
series
▪ A scale like this will normally consist of a series of such statements tapping the same attitudinal dimension.
▪ When approached underwater they give an alarm or warning signal consisting of a series of quite rapid and quite audible grunts.
▪ In detail barrier reefs consist of whole series of individual reefs and may have small islands on them.
▪ A successful activity will consist of a series of varied lessons and tasks.
system
▪ The reproductive systems consist of filamentous tubes.
▪ A chemical system may consist of atoms, molecules and ions or any combination of these.
team
▪ Ideally the netting team should consist of three people.
▪ In basketball, you can have good teams consisting of high school kids, old men and women of all ages.
▪ The top team could consist of the board.
▪ Women's teams consist of three competitors plus one reserve.
word
▪ Certainly, it is no justification in itself for ruling out ads consisting entirely of words.
▪ About 30 percent of the time, these largely involuntary vocalizations consist of shouting words, sometimes obscenities.
▪ Such lexical chains need not necessarily consist of words which mean the same, however.
■ VERB
seem
▪ Finally, the remaining three components seemed to consist of uninterpretable noise.
▪ It seems to consist of an affront to the dignity of the House or a Member of it.
▪ Mabs and Tashie's contribution seemed to consist of amiably teasing Nigel and Henry.
▪ The world seemed to consist of spongers like Marc, supporters like Christopher, and victims like Francis.
▪ The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds.
▪ Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
▪ The perceived world, however, seems to consist of stable objects as well as events occurring in them.
▪ First is the fact that his capitalist society seemed to consist of mechanisms and relationships with universal effects throughout capitalism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assuming voluntary labour in sport to consist of half manual and half professional work gives an average value per hour of £10.38.
▪ Ideally the netting team should consist of three people.
▪ If supplied, each entry must consist of two parts.
▪ Later tombs here have no tumulus above but consist of a single large room cut into the stone.
▪ Substrate can consist of fine gravel, aquarium sand or powdered lava.
▪ The household may now consist of several teenagers or an elderly relative.
▪ This might consistspecial in-house courses, attendance at outside professional courses, plus evening college lectures and private study.
▪ To start with, nearly all the warning patterns consist of pale bands or light patches against black backgrounds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consist

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.]

  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.

    He is before all things, and by him all things consist.
    --Col. i. 17.

  2. To be composed or made up; -- followed by of.

    The land would consist of plains and valleys.
    --T. Burnet.

  3. To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in.

    If their purgation did consist in words.
    --Shak.

    A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
    --Luke xii. 15.

  4. To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.

    This was a consisting story.
    --Bp. Burnet.

    Health consists with temperance alone.
    --Pope.

    For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
    --Milton.

  5. To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: To Consist, Consist of, Consist in.

    Usage: The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, ``Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review.'' When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, ``There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected.'' ``Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty.''

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consist

1520s, from Middle French consister (14c.) or directly from Latin consistere "to stand firm, take a standing position, stop, halt," from com- "together" (see com-) + sistere "to place," causative of stare "to stand, be standing" (see stay (v.)). Related: Consisted; consisting.

Wiktionary
consist

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 rail transport English) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.

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WordNet
consist

  1. v. originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" [syn: dwell, lie, belong, lie in]

  2. have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in; "The payment consists in food"; "What does love consist in?"

  3. be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end"

  4. be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn: comprise]

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.