consist
IPA: kʌnsˈɪst
noun
- (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
verb
- (obsolete, copulative) To be.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To exist.
- (intransitive, with in) To comprise or contain.
- (intransitive, with of) To comprise, or to be composed, formed, or constituted of.
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Examples of "consist" in Sentences
- The packet consists of payload.
- The lack of consistency is glaring.
- The environment consists of stimuli.
- But the texture of it was consistent.
- It's the consistency of the statements.
- The offense consisted in the sacrelige.
- The notes in the article are consistent.
- The others are consistency and felicity.
- ED Maven: You fail to ask what does the fee simple title consist of.
- Observer: You fail to ask what does the fee simple title consist of.
- The website is about acupuncture and the name consist of two words -
- Yet in what, psychologically considered, does understanding a word consist?
- The etiology of delirium is complex and usually consists of multiple factors.
- The band consists of instrumentalists, including guitar, ebass and synthesizer.
- A description can be written in English, consist of 517 words, be printed in red ink, and so on.
- A sudden renewed interest in action movies from the early nineties whose titles consist of three words, one of which is usually either “kill”, “law” or “justice”.
- The Windows API calls consist in pretty simple stuff, such as a function to pop up an Open dialog, same for a Save dialog, a function to detect how many CPU cores we have (that one's probably in POSIX), a function to copy an image to clipboard ..
- Jokes made by altering the letters of a word consist in meaning, not just what you say, but something that gives a twist to the word used; e.g. the remark of Theodorus about Nicon the harpist Thratt’ ei su (’you Thracian slavey’), where he pretends to mean Thratteis su (’you harpplayer’), and surprises us when we find he means something else.
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