Comprise

Definition: Comprise

Comprise

Verb

1. Be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces".

2. Include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's".

3. 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".

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

Date "comprise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Comprise \Com*prise"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Comprised; present participle verb or noun Comprising.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Comprise

Class

Include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose; (circumscribe); embody, encircle.

Crosswords: Comprise

French (understood).

Books

• La mythologie comprise : l'interprâetation schellingienne du paganisme (reference)

• The left in Britain : a checklist and guide ; with historical notes to 37 left-wing political movements and groupings active in Britain between 1904-1972 whose publications comprise the Harvester/Primary Social Sources microfilm collection (reference)

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Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Cresyl violet stain, used here to stain this section of cervical spinal cord, bonds well with acidic components that comprise the neuronal cytoarchitecture such as ribosomes, nuclei and nucleoli. Credit: CDC.

Plastic tarps temporarily hold together the sediments that comprise the containment dike fronting the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

These three men comprise the board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California. They were elected by their own group to direct this farm unit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Two trailers, one to be used by camp manager for living quarters and office, the other as a clinic and health center. Comprise part of the mobile camp unit. This unit will follow the workers from harv. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. (reference)

By a date which must not be later than March 31, 1920, the German Army must not comprise more than seven divisions of infantry and three divisions of cavalry. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Two programs comprise the DBDR, the Blood Diseases Program, and the Blood Resources Program. (references)

These factors are representative of the universe of considerations that comprise clinical judgment. (references)

This allows you to search for documents on over 100 selected Web sites that comprise the NIH-WEB- SPACE. (references)

Business

The total amount of projects comprise USD 300 million. (references)

Finished goods generally comprise the ready-for-sale inventory. (references)

The banks with a smaller state stake comprise the second group of banks. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Whites comprise about 11% of the population. (references)

South Africa

They comprise about 9% of the total population. (references)

Costa Rica

These companies comprise the bulk of Mexican exports. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

One defector estimated that the class of those considered potentially hostile may comprise 25 to 30 percent of the population; others place the figure at closer to 20 percent. (references)

Turkey

NGO's operate in many regions but face government obstruction and restrictive laws regarding their operations, particularly in the four provinces that comprise the state of emergency region. (references)

Uganda

On June 28, the UHRC Tribunal awarded approximately $2,800 (5 million shillings) to S. Erau as compensation for having been detained for 18 days, tortured, and deprived of his property by the UPDF and police in 1999. Pretrial detainees comprise nearly three-fourths of the prison population. (references)

Indigenous People

Ecuador

While at least 85 percent of all citizens claim some indigenous heritage, those who maintain their indigenous cultural identity and live in indigenous communities comprise between 15 and 20 percent of the total population. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

The four largest ethnic groups, which comprise two-thirds of the country's population, are the Hausa and Fulani of the north, the Yoruba of the southwest, and the Igbos of the southeast. (references)

Slovak Republic

Ethnic Slovaks who reside in southern Slovakia, where ethnic Hungarians comprise the majority, complained that it is more difficult for them to locate employment if they do not speak Hungarian. (references)

Political Economy

Venezuela

Iron, aluminum, steel, and petrochemical products together comprise nearly half of the nonoil exports. (references)

Malaysia

Chinese comprise about 26% of Malaysia's population and Indians about 7%. Other groups, including native peoples in Sarawak and Sabah in East Malaysia, compose the remainder of the population. (references)

MALAYSIA

Income taxes, both corporate and individual, comprise 44 percent of government revenue with indirect taxes, export and import duties, excise taxes, sales taxes, service taxes, and other taxes accounting for another 29 percent. (references)

Trade

Jamaica

Processed and fresh vegetables comprise most of the trade under CARIBCAN. (references)

Bolivia

The Central Bank and 13 privately owned banks comprise Bolivia's banking system. (references)

Bangladesh

The number of items banned or restricted comprise 2.2% of the HS 4-digit tariff lines. (references)

Women

Zimbabwe

In 2000 the Government promised to grant a quota of 20 percent of resettled land to women, although they comprise nearly 80 percent of the rural population. (references)

Bangladesh

According to a Government survey released in May, women comprise only 2.1 percent of the workforce in the Home Ministry, which is responsible for police and internal security; women comprise only 1.77 percent of the workforce in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. (references)

Worker Rights

Saudi Arabia

Foreign workers comprise about two-thirds of the work force. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "comprise": comprise of. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bevat (contain, include), behels (contain, include). (various references)

Albanian

përmbaj (carry, check, choke, constrain, contain, control, Cork, detain, deter, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain, stay), përfshij (add in, comprehend, contain, count in, cover, embrace, imply, include, incorporate, involve, mix in, reach, span, store, subsume, sweep), përbëj (amount, compose, constitute, form, make up), përbëhem nga (consist). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تضمن (contain, embodiment, guaranty, have, implicate, include), ‏إشتمل (comprehend, contain, embody, embrace, enclose, have, inclose, include, take in), ‏ألف (accustom, affect, compile, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, thousand, write), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way), ‏شمل (comprehend, cover, embody, embrace, encompass, enfold, include, included, involve, unity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдържам (contain, encompass, hold, imply, receive), включвам (add in, cover, engage in, engraft, gear, include, incorporate, insert, involve, latch, make, number, occlude, plug in, subsume, take in, throw in), обхващам (comprehend, embed, encompass, envelop, grip, include, obsess, overcome, overtake, pervade, possess, seize, span, spread, take in), обемам. (various references)

Chinese 

包括 (Comprised, Comprising, Consist, Consisted, Consisting, include, included, Including, inclusion). (various references)

Czech

zahrnovat (bombard, comprehend, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, envisage, imply, subsume), obsahovat (comprehend, contain, encompass, hold, imply, include). (various references)

Danish

indeholde (contain, include). (various references)

Dutch

omvatten (embrace, hug), beslaan (become steamy, dim, fill, fit out, garnish, get blurred, get covered with, get dim, occupy, shoe, take, take up, trim). (various references)

Esperanto

enhavi (contain, include), ampleksi. (various references)

Faeroese

hava við (bring along, contain, include, take along), fevna um. (various references)

Farsi 

شامل بودن (Consist, Contain, Embrace, Encompass, Entail, Include), دربرداشتن (Bear, Comport, Contain, Embody, Encircle, Entail, Include, Presuppose). (various references)

Finnish

sulkea piiriinsä (embrace), sisältää (contain, hold, include), käsittää (comprehend, grasp, include, realize, understand). (various references)

French

contenir (contain). (various references)

German

umfassen (clasp, comprehend, contain, cover, embrace, encircle, encompass, enfold, grasp, hug, include, involve, outflank, span, surround, to comprise, to contain, to cover, to enfold, to include). (various references)

Greek 

περιλαμβάνω (accommodate, comprehend, comprize, contain, include, involve). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכלול (comprehend, contain, embrace, encompass, figure in, include, take in). (various references)

Hungarian

tartalmaz (contain, encompass, held, include, to comprise, to contain, to encompass, to hold, to include, to purport), átfog (embrace, to clasp, to colligate), áll valamibõl (consist, consist of, made up). (various references)

Indonesian

termasuk (belonging to, counted, included). (various references)

Italian

contenere (carry, contain, contain oneself, encompass, hold, include, restrain, stem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� める (to comprise, to hold, to occupy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しめる (to account for, to be damp, to be wet, to become wet, to close, to comprise, to constrict, to fasten, to hold, to make up, to occupy, to shut, to strangle, to tie), ふくむ (duty, public service, to be charged or loaded with, to be dripping with, to be full of, to be suffused with, to bear in mind, to cherish, to comprise, to contain, to embrace, to harbor, to have, to hold, to hold in the mouth, to include, to understand). (various references)

Korean 

함� 하십시�". (various references)

Malay

berisi (contain, include). (various references)

Manx

goaill stiagh (annex, annexation, comprehend; intake, contain, include, inclusion, ingathering, take in, taking in). (various references)

Papiamen

kontené (contain, include), abarká (contain, include). (various references)

Pig Latin

omprisecay

Polish

zawierać. (various references)

Portuguese

incluir (add, add in, contain, count, embody, embrace, enclose, inclose, include, including, number, take in, to include), conter (bottle, carry, contain, hold, hold down, imply, include, refrain, restrain, rule, squelch, withhold), abranger (accomplish, achieve, compass, comprehend, embrace, get, hug, imply, include, reach). (various references)

Romanian

include (add in, comprehend, contain, count in, cover, embosom, embrace, enclose, include, take in), cuprinde (accommodate, admit, aggregate, carry, come over, comprehend, conquer, contain, cover, embosom, embrace, enlace, envelop, grasp, grip, Harbor, harbour, include, includes, overtake, prepossess, receive, reckon, see, seize, span), conţine (carry, contain, encompass, hold, include, receive). (various references)

Russian 

включать (add in, comprehend, embodied, embody, embrace, gear, geared, include, including, insert, install, involve, key on, power on, subsume, switch in, take in, turn on). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uključiti (actuate, enter, include, join, plug, plug in, turn on). (various references)

Spanish

contener (bottle up, bridle, check, contain, control, enclose, govern, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, intercept, keep back, keep down, keep in, press back, restrain, rule, run by, smother, suppress). (various references)

Swedish

innehålla (be included, carry, contain, include, retain), inbegripa (embrace, implicate, include). (various references)

Turkish

oluşmak (be formed, consist, consist of, grow out of, occur, take shape), kapsamak (be inclusive of, blanket, compass, comprehend, contain, cover, embrace, encapsulate, enclose, encompass, implicate, incapsulate, inclose, include, involve, span, subsume), kapsama (containment, inclusion, subsumption), ihtiva etmek (comprehend, contain, embody), içine almak (be inclusive of, contain, implicate, include), içermek (contain, cover, embody, encapsulate, enclose, implicate, imply, incapsulate, inclose, include, number, span, store, subsume). (various references)

Ukrainian

входити до складу (appertain), включати (add in, comprehend, cut in, embody, introduce, put, take in), охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap, wrap). (various references)

Welsh

cynnwys (comprehend, contain, contents, hold, include), amgyffred (comprehend, comprehension). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "comprise": comprised, comprises. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comprise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Camporese, Colprensa, comorien, compize, compjrise, comprame, comprenez, Compressa, comprice, comprime, compris, comprize, comprmise, coprime. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: copiers, imposer, meropic, promise, semipro, spermic.

-2 letters: comers, copers, copier, copies, corpse, cosier, crimes, crimps, cripes, impose, isomer, micros, moires, mopers, mopier, poiser, porism, precis, prices, primes, primos, proems, rimose, scrimp, simper, spicer, spirem.

-3 letters: ceros, cires, coirs, comer, comes, comps, coper, copes, copse, cores, corms, corps, corse, cosie, cries, crime, crimp, cripe.

+1 letter: compilers, compliers, comprised, comprises, comprizes, copremias, proxemics.

+2 letters: compromise, megasporic, micropores, micropyles, microscope, microspore, morphemics, princedoms, proscenium, recompiles, semitropic, supermicro.

+3 letters: atmospheric, competitors, complainers, compressing, compression, compressive, compromised, compromiser, compromises, computerise, computerist, comradeship, coppersmith, hypodermics, hypsometric, importances, imprecision, mesomorphic, mesonephric, mesospheric, mesotrophic, microcopies, microphages, microphones, micropipets, microprobes, microscopes, microsphere, microspores, pleochroism, plyometrics, proclaimers, prominences, prosceniums, pyromancies, recomposing, semitropics, spirometric, supermicros.