Constitute

Definition: Constitute

Constitute

Verb

1. Form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army".

2. Charge with a task or function; "appoint someone president"; "nominate a committee".

3. To compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction".

4. Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "constitute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Constitute \Con"sti*tute\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Constituted; Constituting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Constitute

Component

Form, make,form, make, constitute, compose.

Composition

Compose, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of; (be a component).

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Whole

Verb: form a whole, integrate, embody, amass; aggregate; (assemble); amount to, come to.

Crosswords: Constitute

Bad planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part. (references; author: unknown)

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Astronomers have ruled out the possibility that red dwarf stars constitute the invisible ... Credit: NASA.

Minnows that constitute the forage base for larger predators. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Junk and refuse constitute a hazard on the farm of Theodore German. North Branford Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

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When any one, or more, shall take upon them to make laws, whom the people have not appointed so to do, they make laws without authority, which the people are not therefore bound to obey; by which means they come again to be out of subjection, and may constitute to themselves a new legislative, as they think best, being in full liberty to resist the force of those, who without authority would impose any thing upon them. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 1: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. (reference)

If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law? (reference)

Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word. (reference)

Nevertheless, as a provisional measure, only representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and Roumania shall constitute this Commission. (reference)

Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. (reference)

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These obscure and undying roots did not constitute the right of a family, but the history of a people

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Health

They constitute a measurable risk about which all women should be informed. (references)

These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by FDA or the federal government. (references)

Each virus is associated with either one species or a few closely related rodents, which constitute the virus’ natural reservoir. (references)

Business

Tractor sales constitute the bulk (60%) of the total agricultural equipment market. (references)

Media expenditures constitute the bulk of the total advertisement industry in Germany. (references)

Aluminum and vinyl siding and roofing shingles constitute "best prospects" for imports. (references)

Children

Gambia

Girls constitute approximately 40 percent of primary school students and roughly one-third of high school students. (references)

Spain

In 1994 the Constitutional Court held that sterilization of the mentally infirm does not constitute a violation of the Constitution. (references)

South Africa

In August the Public Service Commission reported to a parliamentary committee that persons with disabilities constitute only 0.02 percent of the public service workforce. (references)

Civil Liberties

Syria

There is no official state religion; Sunni Muslims constitute the majority of the population. (references)

Iran

Baha'i, Christian, Zoroastrian, and Jewish communities constitute less than 1 percent of the population. (references)

Yugoslavia

The continuing lack of clear guidelines is perceived by some observers to constitute an inhibition on free expression. (references)

Economic History

Comoros

Foodstuffs constitute 32% of total imports. (references)

Gambia, The

Muslims constitute more than 92% of the population. (references)

Israel

Israel and the PA constitute a single customs entity. (references)

Human Rights

Hong Kong

Some violations of the PDPO constitute criminal offenses. (references)

Belize

Noncitizens constitute approximately 15 to 20 percent of the prison population. (references)

Bhutan

Village headmen, who have the power to arbitrate disputes, constitute the bottom rung of the judicial system. (references)

Indigenous People

New Zealand

Maori inmates constitute more than half the prison population. (references)

Guatemala

For this reason, indigenous men constitute a very high percentage of the military's ranks. (references)

Canada

In the country's three territories, aboriginals constitute 20 percent of Yukon, 62 percent of Northwest Territories, and 84 percent of Nunavut. (references)

Minorities

Libya

Foreigners constitute a significant part of the workforce. (references)

Singapore

Ethnic Malays constitute approximately 15 percent of the total population. (references)

Cambodia

Citizens of Chinese and Vietnamese ethnicity constitute the largest ethnic minorities. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

The Igbos constitute a large percentage of the trading and merchant class in these cities. (references)

Mongolia

Garment manufacture and minerals, especially copper, constitute the bulk of export earnings. (references)

COLOMBIA

Colombia's special import-export system for machinery and its free trade zones constitute export subsidies. (references)

Political Rights

Monaco

Together the four constitute the Government. (references)

Albania

Ethnic Greeks constitute the largest minority group. (references)

China

Women constitute 21.83 percent of the National People's Congress. (references)

Trade

Greece

Banks constitute the main source of financing. (references)

Taiwan

Bank-to-bank Letters of Credit (L/C) constitute Taiwan's most important import-payment process. (references)

Canada

Services exports constitute the fastest growing component of the US-Canada bilateral trade relationship. (references)

Travel

Liberia

The presence of many ill-trained and armed government security personnel continues to constitute a potential danger. (references)

Uk

Ethnic minorities constitute about six percent of the population and have proven to be valuable contributors to the British economy. (references)

Argentina

Almost all business in Argentina is transacted in Spanish and all documents and records must be in Spanish to constitute valid evidence. (references)

Women

United Arab Emirates

Women also constitute 4 percent of the military. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Citizen and noncitizen women constitute 15 percent of the national workforce. (references)

Qatar

Females constitute approximately two-thirds of the student body at Qatar University. (references)

Worker Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Failure to do so would constitute a breach, which might cover a worker who refuses to work under these conditions. (references)

Guatemala

Clarification of these crimes would establish which of these crimes constitute violation of the right of association. (references)

Oman

Foreign workers constitute at least 50 percent of the work force and as much as 80 percent of the private sector work force. (references)

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Expressions using "constitute": constitute a threat ♦ constitute oneself. Additional references.

Ending with "constitute": re-constitute.

Albanian

caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone), zgjedh (choose, cull, disentangle, draft, draught, elect, embrace, opt, pick, pick out, select, single out, solve, take), themeloj (establish, float, found, institute, lay the foundations of, open, plant, repose, set up), strukturoj, përbëj (amount, compose, comprise, form, make up), montoj (assemble, erect, hook up, Mount, put together), formoj (construct, create, form, found, make, make up, Mold, mould, organize, shape). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نصب (install, nominate, put up, roguery, set up, statue, swindle), ‏سن تشريعات, ‏عين (allocate, appoint, assign, assist, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, install, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, supply, tap), ‏أنشأ مؤسسة, ‏ألف (accustom, affect, compile, comprise, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, thousand, write), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, comprise, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съставлявам (form, make), устроен съм, учредявам (erect, found, institute, organize), назначавам (designate, institute, make, name, nominate, place, prefer, put in, set), издавам закон (legislate). (various references)

Chinese 

組成 (component, element, make up, part), 构成 (Composition, Constituted, Constituting, makeup, make-up). (various references)

Czech

založit (base, begin, establish, file, float, found, ground, institute, launch, mislay, plant, set up, start, start up, wedge), ustanovit (appoint, designate, institute, ordain, place, set), tvořit (coin, create, generate, make up, reproduce), reprezentovat (represent), představovat (personate, picture, represent, spell). (various references)

Danish

udgoere et middel til vilkaarlig forskelsbehandling (to constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination), udgøre et enkelt og samlet dokument (indivisible instrument, to constitute a single), stride mod straffelovgivningen (to constitute a breach of criminal law), sejgringsnetvaerkets traade udgoer svaghedszoner,der er rige paa sulfidindeslutninger (rich in sulphide inclusions, the threads of segregate constitute a zone of weakness), overgangsperiodens udloeb skal vaere sidste frist for... (the expiry of the transitional period shall constitute the latest date by which...), i estuarier, hvor der finder en hurtig opblanding sted, vil overgangen fra flodmiljoeet til det oceaniske miljoe vaere gradvis (estuarine areas constitute transitional zones between the river environment and the oceanic environment), flodmundingsbaekkener/estuarier er overgangszoner mellem flodmiljoeet og det oceaniske miljoe (estuarine areas constitute transitional zones between the river environment and the oceanic environment), et koksovnbatteri bestaar af en raekke koksovne,et koksvaerk af flere koksovnsbatterier (several batteries constitute a coking plant), disse forbud maa dog hverken udgoere...eller en skjult begraensning af samhandelen mellem Medlemsstaterne (such prohibitions shall not constitute either a...or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States), de autotrofe organismer udgoer det foerste trofiske niveau d.v.s. det foerste led i foedekaeden (the autotrophic organisms constitute the first trophic level), administrativ kontrol,som kan være i mostrid med menneskerettighederne (administrative check which might constitute a violation of human rights). (various references)

Dutch

vormen (account for, acknowledge, confirm, corroborate, cut, form, make up, shape), uitmaken (accomodate, account for, decide, dispense with, do away with, end, extinguish, finish, get rid of, make up, put out, remove, terminate). (various references)

Esperanto

konsistigi (make up). (various references)

Farsi 

تاسیس کردن (Establish, Institute, Invent, Make), ترکیب کردن (Agglutinate, Concoct, Incorporate, Merge, Piece, Synthesize, Unite), تشکیل دادن (Form, Vocalize). (various references)

Finnish

muodostaa (build, establish, fashion, form, make up, shape). (various references)

French

constituons, constituez, constituer (comprise), constituent, nommer. (various references)

German

konstituieren (set up), gründen (base, erect, establish, float, form, found, incorporate, institute, launch, organize, set up, to found, to plant), ernennen (appoint, call, deputize, name, nominate, post, to appoint, to deputize, to nominate), einsetzen (appoint, begin, bring into action, bring into play, come in, come on, deploy, employ, enter, enthrone, exert, fit in, gamble, implant, inaugurate, insert, inset, install, invest, lay on, let, let in, move in, play, ply, put away, put in, put on, reinsert, risk, send in, send on, set, set in, set up, stake, start, stow, to constitute, to enthrone, to insert, to instate, to patch, to reinsert, to set in, use), darstellen (delineate, depict, describe, display, enact, impersonate, incarnate, introduce, offer, paint, personate, picture, play, play out, plot, portray, pose, present, produce, render, represent, tender, to depict, to personate, to represent), bilden (acquire, breed, bring up, civilize, construct, educate, establish, fashion, form, make, make up, Mold, raise, refine, set up, shape, to frame, to pattern), ausmachen (agree, amount to, arrange, come to, determine, dig up, go to make up, locate, make, make out, make up, matter, put off, put out, set, settle, to account for, turn off, turn out). (various references)

Greek 

συγκροτώ (compose, form), αποτελώ (compose, make up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכונן (establish, found, institute), להוות (capitalize). (various references)

Hungarian

alkot (create, generate, procreate, to compose, to create, to frame, to make up, to procreate, to produce), alapít (base, endow, establish, form, found, institute, to base, to endow, to establish, to institute). (various references)

Indonesian

merupakan, menyusun (arrange, assort, compilate, conceive, configure, contrive, run along), membangunkan (arouse, build up, shape). (various references)

Italian

costituire (compose, constitute oneself, establish, form, give oneself up, institute, make up, set oneself up), formare (educate, forge, form, frame, make, Mold, mould, sculpt, shape, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

因となり果となる (to constitute the cause and effect). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いんとなりかとなる (to constitute the cause and effect). (various references)

Korean 

창설하십시요. (various references)

Manx

jannoo seose (concoct, consist, cultivation, make up, patch up). (various references)

Pig Latin

onstitutecay.(various references)

Portuguese

constituir (compose, consist in, institute, make, make up). (various references)

Romanian

constitui (be, establish, form, frame, represent), compune (compact, compose, compound, create, draw, form, frame, indite, Marshal, set, write), stabili (appoint, arrange, ascertain, assess, calm, clinch, conclude, decree, determine, erect, establish, fix, institute, introduce, lay down, Lodge, measure, nail down, name, nominate, regulate, set, set out, settle, spot, state, verify), numi (appoint, call, designate, make, name, nominate, place, put, surname), institui (establish, institute, organize), forma (arise, compose, cultivate, educate, fashion, form, frame, garrison, knead, Mold, mould, organize, shape, train), autoriza (allow, authorise, authorize, commission, empower, enable, license, sanction), alcãtui (compile, compose, construct, create, devise, elaborate, form, frame, integrate, lay down, organize). (various references)

Russian 

составлять (amount, amounted, amounting, be, come, compose, draw up, form, make, reach, totalled, totalling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

konstituisati. (various references)

Spanish

constituir (establish, instruct, make up). (various references)

Swedish

bilda (culture, educate, erect, establish, form, Mold, mould, shape). (various references)

Turkish

yürürlüğe koymak (put into action, put into effect), teşkil etmek, seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, pick out, plump for, postulate, select, single out, spot), oluşturmak (carve out, compose, create, effectuate, forge, form, generate, make up), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), atamak (accredit, advance, appoint, assign, co opt, commission, coopt, create, depute, deputize, designate, elect, install, institute, nominate, ordain, post, prefer, station). (various references)

Ukrainian

являти собою (correspond, present), засновувати (base, build, charter, establish, institute, promote, set up, start), призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off). (various references)

Welsh

cyfansoddi (compose). (various references)

accedam, accedamus, accedant, accedas, accedat, accede, accedebant, accedemus, accedens, accedensque, accedent, accedente, accedentem, accedentes, accedentia, accedentibus, accedentque, accedere, accederent, accederet, accederetis, accedes, accedesque, accedet, accedetisque, accedit, accedite, accedunt, accesserint, accesseris, accesserit, accesserunt, accesseruntque, accessi, accessimus, accessissent, accessisset, accessisti, accessistis, accessit, accessitque, accessu, accessum, accessuri. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "constitute": constituted, constitutes. (additional references)

Words ending with "constitute": reconstitute. (additional references)

Words containing "constitute": reconstituted, reconstitutes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Constitute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consitute, constit, constituate, constitue, constiture, constitut, contitute, cosntitute. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: counties, nuttiest, stenotic, tonetics.

-3 letters: contest, contuse, cutties, notices, scottie, section, stouten, suction, tenutos, tonetic, toniest, tutties.

-4 letters: centos, cestoi, coitus, conies, contes, cosine, counts, cousin, cutest, cuties, cutins, icones, incest, incuse, insect, nicest, noetic, notice, octets, oscine, ounces, outset, outsin, outsit, setout, sitten, stotin, tenuis, tenuti, tenuto, teston, tincts, tocsin, tonics, tunics.

+1 letter: constituent, constituted, constitutes.

+2 letters: constituents, constitutive, reconstitute, stonecutting.

+3 letters: constituently, outstretching, reconstituted, reconstitutes, stonecuttings.

+4 letters: authenticators, constitutively, counterstating, countertactics, destructionist, reconstituting, reconstitution.

+5 letters: authentications, destructionists, reconstitutions.