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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consistent
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ They were also consistent throughout his life.
▪ The address on the insurance policy was also consistent with the premises being Capricorn's established business premises.
▪ Our data are also consistent with observations in man that mucosal proliferation is increased in patients with large adenomas or cancer.
▪ It is also consistent with the type of situation which was almost never recalled - going straight ahead past a minor road.
as
▪ Place them in similar positions in your new home so that the growing conditions remain as consistent as possible.
▪ The former University of Miami star has been as consistent as ever.
▪ They just aren't as consistent as they should be.
▪ That is already about half a percentage point lower than the rate many analysts and policy-makers regard as consistent with stable inflation.
▪ Nick has become as consistent as any batter in the Championship.
entirely
▪ Such a suggestion is, of course, entirely consistent with the ideas about the function of grammar as outlined in this chapter.
▪ To the extent that this is true, it is entirely consistent with the history of child psychiatry in this country.
▪ This picture is therefore entirely consistent with the material being an over-heated frit which has been discarded.
▪ Through all this confusion, few individuals remained entirely consistent.
▪ Bourdieu is not entirely consistent in his assessment of just what this autonomy is from.
fairly
▪ Three quick examples give what is a fairly consistent flavour.
▪ URLs follow a fairly consistent pattern.
▪ Such a conclusion is fairly consistent with findings in more conventional community studies.
▪ When asked directly what were their visions of Howdendyke's future, interviewees made fairly consistent replies.
▪ There has been a fairly consistent finding in such studies that this does tend to be the case.
more
▪ This is because the end is more consistent than the means.
▪ Fortunately for the Cowboys, Irvin has been more consistent on the field than off.
▪ Delegates also called for increased formal training to help achieve higher and more consistent standards.
▪ They may also insist that the other spouse change their behaviour so that it would be more consistent with their own.
▪ With greater productivity will come a more consistent product, improved site safety and reduced emissions.
▪ The text provides an interesting mix of wilderness appreciation and tips on how to attain more consistent results.
▪ According to the official blurb, it means more consistent and comfortable shifting with improved performance and fuel economy.
▪ On histological review, it was felt that these two tumours were more consistent with hepatocellular carcinoma than cholangiocarcinoma.
most
▪ Among these hypokalaemia is the most consistent and important finding, and its magnitude correlates well with the concurrent serum theophylline concentration.
▪ In the past, Strug has not been the most consistent performer.
▪ This shape matrix was then compared to a stored dictionary of words to find the word most consistent with the shape information.
▪ His most consistent phrase was that he wants to accomplish in Washington what the governors have done in their states.
▪ The most consistent feature of the Commonwealth idea, at all stages of its development, was the principle of consent.
▪ His death was a promise broken, the loss of the most consistent witness to her life as an artist.
▪ The Labour Party gains its most consistent successes in London and the other major cities.
▪ Roy is the Ducks' high scorer this season and probably the most consistent player on the team.
remarkably
▪ Yet the way men define their role has remained remarkably consistent.
▪ They produced a remarkably consistent sound for the revolving-door group.
▪ Despite differences in dosage and length of treatment, the results are remarkably consistent.
▪ More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.
▪ In this study there was a remarkably consistent proximal small intestinal enteropathy of mild to moderate severity.
▪ Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were remarkably consistent for both Maori and non-Maori populations within New Zealand.
▪ Discussion of Judgment Results Subjects appeared to make judgments which were remarkably consistent with those given when actually driving.
very
▪ The hens also appeared to be very consistent in their decisions, with individual birds choosing the same nest day after day.
▪ When Miles and Evan were little, John and I were very consistent in putting them down for an hour-long afternoon nap.
▪ But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way.
▪ However the quantities derived from these parameters, which relate to biologically meaningful quantities, are very consistent.
▪ He only won once as a novice but was very consistent.
▪ Such mechanisation produces very consistent results throughout the year, but the cheeses often lack the authentic flavour of handmade varieties.
▪ Also the counts for card subjects of known area are very consistent.
■ NOUN
basis
▪ We have not shown the ability to sell 15, 000-seat shows on a consistent basis.
▪ The key is to be able to do it on a consistent basis.
pattern
▪ The community that showed the most stable and consistent patterns of gender-differentiation was the East Belfast Ballymacarrett community.
▪ Looking at the results for length of the pendulum string, one observes a consistent pattern.
▪ Within each type of disability there is a consistent pattern of the prevalence rate increasing with age.
▪ Does it give your body rhythm a consistent pattern?
▪ Despite this, some consistent patterns have been established.
▪ URLs follow a fairly consistent pattern.
▪ Fairly consistent patterns are evident in the location of the volcanic activity with respect to the fringing trench.
▪ But such a consistent pattern of behaviour suggests a cause beyond the range of personal explanations offered by the women themselves.
result
▪ What you should look for is evidence of good, consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years.
▪ The text provides an interesting mix of wilderness appreciation and tips on how to attain more consistent results.
▪ Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results.
▪ It is always the case that averaging over tens of trials is necessary to give consistent results, particularly with endogenous ERPs.
▪ Artificial expertise produces more consistent results than does human expertise.
▪ Such mechanisation produces very consistent results throughout the year, but the cheeses often lack the authentic flavour of handmade varieties.
▪ The W algorithm was designed to be more breadth-first, and more consistent results were expected regardless of the input conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Judges must be firm, fair and consistent in their application of the law.
▪ She is one of the most consistent players on the tennis circuit.
▪ Teaching by example has been a consistent theme in his work.
▪ To secure our future, we need a consistent economic strategy.
▪ Until the second quarter of this year, the company had been showing consistent growth.
▪ We've seen a consistent improvement in the team's performance.
▪ We need a quarterback who is consistent game after game.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A company that manufactures photocopiers obviously holds to a descriptive core belief consistent with this empirical reality.
▪ At home he shows consistent management problems.
▪ Even here, there was consistent fear of anything that threatened to shake up the status quo.
▪ How do you find a reasonable and consistent thread of explanation through this?
▪ Not all political analysts are consistent in how they employ these concepts.
▪ One of the first kennels to establish itself as a consistent winner in the show ring was the Tankerville Kennel.
▪ Why would they suddenly become a consistent team now, when the opponents start getting tougher?
▪ Yet the way men define their role has remained remarkably consistent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consistent

Consistent \Con*sist"ent\, a. [L. consistens, p. pr.: cf. F. consistant.]

  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.

    The humoral and consistent parts of the body.
    --Harvey.

  2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory.

    Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour.
    --Pope.

    With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent.
    --South.

  3. Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions.

    It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consistent

1570s, "standing firm, standing still," from Latin consistentem (nominative consistens), present participle of consistere (see consist). Modern sense of "agreeing" (with with) is first attested 1640s. Older sense survives in consistency. Related: Consistently.

Wiktionary
consistent

a. 1 Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. 2 compatible, accordant. n. 1 (context in the plural rare English) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another. 2 In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament.

WordNet
consistent
  1. adj. (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable; "testimony consistent with the known facts"; "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"- FDR [ant: inconsistent]

  2. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a logical argument"; "the orderly presentation" [syn: logical, ordered, orderly]

  3. capable of being reproduced; "astonishingly reproducible results can be obtained" [syn: reproducible] [ant: unreproducible]

  4. the same throughout in structure or composition; "bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product" [syn: uniform]

Usage examples of "consistent".

Indeed, if there was a consistent theme in all that Adams wrote and strived for, it was the need for a binding American union.

The letters of John and Abigail Adams number in the thousands, and because they both wrote with such consistent candor and in such vivid detail, it is possible to know them--to go beneath the surface of their lives--to an extent not possible with other protagonists of the time.

Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.

Thus, the Transactional interpretation is completely consistent with the results of the Afshar Experiment and with the quantum formalism.

Does it mean that the physics community must turn to an interpretation like the Transactional Interpretation that is consistent with the Afshar results?

When this view is maintained by men and women who oppose the killing of animals for purposes of food or raiment or adornment, or their exploitation in any way which demands extinction of life, it is entirely consistent with high ideals.

That arteria lasted for seventy million peaceful, productive years, during which several Quick species, none of them native to Ulubis, came and went, leaving only the Dwellers to bear consistent witness to the slow turn of life and events.

What was most disturbing was how he felt when he awoke, it felt as if he had just relived those moments, but this time the emotions were not consistent with how he remembered them before the dream.

However, readers should keep in mind that many of these behavioral symptoms have no consistent definitions or ways of measurement.

Presumably the displacement calculated by calculating the locations of notes in the melody should be consistent with the rules for calculating the locations of chords, particularly if the chords are implied by the melody.

A slightly diminished albedo, but that was consistent with the earthshine being registered down here.

Chop one-half pound pickled pork and few fine herbs, stir them in with the onions, then stir in the yolks of two eggs and add a sufficient quantity breadcrumbs to make it fairly consistent.

In this way he arrived at a space-structure which possesses neither the three-dimensionality nor the rectilinear character of so-called Euclidean space - a space-picture which, though mathematically consistent, is incomprehensible by the human mind.

In this work, the author promulgates the theory that the Fairies were a people existing distinct from the known inhabitants of the country and confederated together, and met mysteriously to avoid coming in contact with the stronger race that had taken possession of their land, and he supposes that in these traditionary tales of the Fairies we recognize something of the real history of an ancient people whose customs were those of a regular and consistent policy.

This appointment gave him the greater satisfaction as a testimony to his consistent integrity through his whole parliamentary career, as it came from the Gladstonian ministry, and he had been forced by his deep Church and State convictions to separate from Mr.