different between comprise vs constitude

English

Etymology

From Middle English comprisen, from Old French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere, contr. comprendere, past participle comprehensus (“to comprehend”); see comprehend. Compare apprise, reprise, surprise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p?a?z/

Verb

comprise (third-person singular simple present comprises, present participle comprising, simple past and past participle comprised)

1. (transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts). [from the earlier 15th c.]
2. (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose; to constitute. [from the late 18th c.]
   • 1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (translation), Prop. XXX

     "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3. To contain or embrace. [from the earlier 15th c.]

4. (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

   Coordinate term: compose (close-ended)

Usage notes

Synonyms

• (to compose): form, make up; see also Thesaurus:compose

Related terms

• comprehensive

Translations

Further reading

• comprised of on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• comprise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• perosmic

French

Verb

comprise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of comprendre