Consist

Definition: Consist

Consist

Verb

1. Originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country".

2. Have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in; "The payment consists in food"; "What does love consist in?".

3. Be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end".

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

5. Be composed of; "What does this dish consist of?".

Date "consist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Consist \Con*sist"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Consisted; present participle verb or noun Consisting.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Transportation	The makeup or composition of a train of cars, their number and specific identity; the arrangement of different types of cars(driving motor car, non-driving motor car, trailer, etc. )in the composition of a train. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Consist

Synonyms: belong (v), comprise (v), dwell (v), lie (v), lie in (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Composition	Verb: be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of; consist of, be resolved into.
Existence	Consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Footwear with Leather Outer Soles and Uppers which Consist of Leather Straps across the Instep and around the Big Toe: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Set Consist of Human Geography: Culture, Society and Space, Fourth Edition and Goode's World at (reference) (more book examples)
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	This image depicts adenovirus. Computer graphics are made by utilizing data fed into a computer. This data may consist of chemical weights and measures and the structure of specific elements. A three-dimensional image can be made so one can visualize an otherwise minute structure. Credit: Dr. Richard Feldmann (photographer).		Shown is a DNA molecule. Computer graphic images are made by utilizing data fed into a computer. This data may consist of chemical elements and weights to specific colors that depict these weights and measures. Credit: Dr. Richard Feldmann (photographer).
	"The thoughts of Arthur James Yettke, aviation boatswain's mate, third class, USN, are far from the realities of war as he catches a few winks while waiting for striking planes to return home. 'Home', for the present, is the escort carrier USS Rendova (CVE-114) now operating off the coast of Korea with the Marine 'Devilcats' Squadron." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces Far East, under date of 20 October 1951. His bed, and the surroundings, consist of .50 caliber machine gun ammunition in wooden crates, ammunition cans and unpackaged in links. Crates are marked with both Navy Bureau of Ordnance crossed cannon and Army Ordnance flaming bomb. Credit: NAVY.
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Author	Quotation
Aristotle	Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Blaise Pascal	Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
Desiderius Erasmus	A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Karl Marx	Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Marques De Pombal	The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms.
Napoleon Bonaparte	Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Thomas Fuller	Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. (reference)
Amendment to US Constitution	1795-1992	But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Each such Tribunal shall consist of three members. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These lesions consist of abnormally enlarged veins. (references)
		Complex carbohydrates consist of starches and dietary fibers. (references)
		They consist of a series of 6 shots given in the arm over a 1 month period. (references)
Business		Their program hour may consist up to twenty percent of advertising. (references)
		It will consist of a mix of wireless, wireline, and mobile technologies. (references)
		Most of the distribution systems in Korea consist of overhead power lines. (references)
Children	India	The act mandates that 5 percent of employees in both the private and public sector eventually should consist of persons with disabilities. (references)
	Zimbabwe	There was a large volume of rape cases in the Harare victim-friendly courts (VFC), which consist of individual magistrates designated to try family cases. (references)
	Italy	The 2000 law requires companies having 15 or more employees to hire one or more disabled workers: Those with 15 to 35 employees must hire 1 disabled worker, those with 35 to 50 must hire 2, and in larger companies 7 percent of the work force must consist of persons with disabilities. (references)
Civil Liberties	Somalia	The print media consist largely of short, photocopied dailies, published in the larger cities and often linked to one of the factions. (references)
	Lesotho	The official state-owned or state-controlled media consist of one radio station, a 11/2 hour daily newscast on a local television channel, and two weekly newspapers. (references)
	Iraq	The remaining approximately 5 percent consist of Christians (Assyrians, Chaldeans, Roman Catholics, and Armenian Orthodox), Yazidis, and a small number of Jews and Mandaeans. (references)
Economic History	Sri Lanka	A mark may consist of words, slogans, designs, etc. (references)
	Ireland	The LUAS project will consist of 4 lines (A/B/B1/C). (references)
	Indonesia	Large islands consist of coastal plains with mountainous interiors. (references)
Human Rights	Pakistan	The usual penalties consist of fines, even for murder. (references)
	Belgium	All military tribunals consist of four military officers and a civilian judge. (references)
	Bangladesh	Torture may consist of threats, beatings and, occasionally, the use of electric shock. (references)
Minorities	Romania	The Romanian Orthodox Church has attacked the "aggressive proselytizing" of Protestant, neo-Protestant, and other religious groups, which the Church repeatedly has described as "sects." There is no law against proselytizing, or clear understanding of what activities consist of proselytizing; however, proselytizing that involves denigrating established churches is perceived as provocative. (references)
Political Economy	OMAN	Services barriers consist of simple prohibitions on entering the market. (references)
	Antigua and Barbuda	Security forces consist of a police force and the small Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force. (references)
Political Rights	Bahrain	He stated that the legislative branch would consist of a directly elected lower house and an appointed upper house. (references)
	Libya	Qadhafi established the Revolutionary Committees in 1977. These bodies consist primarily of youths who guard against political dissent. (references)
	Burundi	Under the 1992 Constitution, deposed President Ntibantunganya would have remained in office until 1998. The last elections to fill the National Assembly took place in June 1993. The Transitional Constitutional Act stipulates that the National Assembly shall consist of 121 parliamentarians: Those elected in 1993 who sat in the previous National Assembly, plus 40 new members--28 members of civil society appointed by the President and one representative each (selected by their respective parties) from all 12 officially recognized political parties not previously represented. (references)
Trade	Bulgaria	Bulgaria's tariff schedules consist of two columns of rates. (references)
	Luxembourg	Nonetheless, the EU continues to consist of fifteen different and unique markets. (references)
	Romania	Safeguard measures may consist of additional customs duties or quantitative restrictions (quotas). (references)
Women	Ethiopia	The National Committee on Traditional Practices of Ethiopia (NCTPE) conducted a survey that was published in 1998, which indicated that 72.7 percent of the female population had undergone FGM, down from an estimated 90 percent of the female population in 1990. Clitoridectomies typically are performed 7 days after birth and consist of an excision of the labia. (references)
Worker Rights	Saudi Arabia	The Government prohibits the establishment of labor unions; however, in May the Government announced that beginning in December, workers in companies employing more than 100 citizens could form "labor committees." The labor committees are to consist of three to nine members, who would serve 3-year terms. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	If there are any circumstances in the law which consistently with its main design may be so varied as to remove any well-intentioned objections that may happen to exist, it will consist with a wise moderation to make the proper variations.
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"Consist" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.74% of the time. "Consist" is used about 1,234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	54.74%	675	9,782
Lexical Verb (base form)	45.26%	558	11,211
Total	100.00%	1,234	N/A

Expressions using "consist": consist in ♦ consist in doing ♦ consist of ♦ consist of smth. ♦ consist with. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "consist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qëndron (hold, lie), përbërje (composition, make up, structure), përbëhem nga (comprise), konsistoj. (various references)

Arabic		‏توقف على (depend), ‏تألف من, ‏صر على (stress). (various references)

Bulgarian		състоя се от, състоя се (consist of, take place), заключавам се в, заключавам се. (various references)

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

Czech		záležet (matter). (various references)

Danish		oprangering af tog (train formation). (various references)

Dutch		bestaan uit (consist of). (various references)

Esperanto		konsisti. (various references)

Faeroese		vera úr (consist of). (various references)

Farsi		مرکب بودن از, عبارت بودن از, شامل بودن (Comprise, Contain, Embrace, Encompass, Entail, Include). (various references)

Finnish		junan kokoonpano (train formation). (various references)

French		consister. (various references)

German		zusammensetzend (composing, piecing, putting together), besteht aus. (various references)

Greek		σύσταση αμαξοστοιχίας (assemblying and disassemblying of consists, shunting, switching, train formation), σύγκειμαι, συνίσταμαι (consist in). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"יות מורכב מן-, ל�"כיל (contain, hold, include). (various references)

Hungarian		létezik (be, be in existence, been, exist, have subsistence, live, to be, to exist, to live, was/were), fennáll (stood, to exist, to hold good, to hold the field, to hold true, to last, to obtain, to stand), áll valamibõl (comprise, consist of, made up). (various references)

Indonesian		terdiri (consist of, endwise, suddenly stand up). (various references)

Italian		constare, consistere, composizione di una colonna di veicoli (train formation), composizione di un convoglio (train formation), formazione del treno (assemblying and disassemblying of consists, train formation), essere composto di. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		成り立つ (to be concluded, to be practical, to consist of, to hold true). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なりたつ (to be concluded, to be practical, to consist of, to hold true). (various references)

Korean		이루어� � 있으십시�". (various references)

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

Norwegian		bestå. (various references)

Papiamen		konsistí. (various references)

Pig Latin		onsistcay

Polish		składać się, polegać. (various references)

Portuguese		consistir em, compreender (bottom, catch, catch on, compass, comprehend, comprise, conceive, embrace, get, grasp, grip, have, imply, know, make out, perceive, plumb, read, realize, see, sense, sympathize, take in, to understand, twig, understand), subsistir (abide, live, subsist, support, survive), harmonizar-se (consort, cotton), formação de comboio (train formation). (various references)

Romanian		consta din (consist of), consta în (consist in, reside). (various references)

Russian		состоять (occupy the post). (various references)

Scottish		comh-sheas (consist in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sastojati se, sastojati. (various references)

Spanish		consistir. (various references)

Swedish		tågbildning (assemblying and disassemblying of consists, train formation), stämma överens (accord, cohere, coincide, fit, suit), bestå (continue, endure, last, pay for, provide, remain, stand). (various references)

Turkish		var olmak (be, come into being, exist, subsist), uymak (abide by, accommodate oneself, accord, adapt, agree, answer, assort, become, chime, chime in with, coincide, comply, comply with, comport, conform, consort, correlate, correspond, defer, do, do for, fall with, fit, follow, gear, go, go together, go with, harmonize, keep, keep to, match, mate, obey, observe, pertain, quadrate, respect, sort together, Square, square with, string along with, suit, tally, tally with, tone, work in with), oluşmak (be formed, comprise, consist of, grow out of, occur, take shape), meydana gelmek (begin, come about, come off, consist of, eventuate, hap, happen, occur, originate, set in, take place), ibaret olmak, dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, endure, found, go on, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand). (various references)

Turkmen		ybarat bolmak. (various references)

Ukrainian		узгоджуватися (accord, cohere, comport, conform, cotton, stand together, sympathize), складатися, збігатися (coincide, concur, jibe, shrink), полягати. (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	consistere. (various references)
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Language	Date	Source	Colossians Chapter 1, Verse 17
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai autoV estin pro pantwn kai ta panta en autw sunesthken
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et ipse est ante omnes et omnia in ipso constant
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he is bifor alle, and alle thingis ben in hym.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And he is before all thinges and in him all thynges have their beynge.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
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Language	Colossians Chapter 1, Verse 17
Cebuano	Siya mao na sa wala pa ang tanang mga butang, ug diha kaniya ang tanang mga butang gipakapot.
Croatian	on je prije svega i sve stoji u njemu.
Danish	og han er forud for alle Ting, og alle Ting bestå ved ham.
Dutch	En Hij is voor alle dingen, en alle dingen bestaan te zamen door Hem;
Finnish	ja hän on ennen kaikkia, ja hänessä pysyy kaikki voimassa.
French	Il est avant toutes choses, et toutes choses subsistent en lui.
German	Und er ist vor allem, und es besteht alles in ihm.
Haitian Creole	Kris la te la anvan tout bagay. Se nan li yo tout jwenn plas yo.
Hungarian	És Õ elõbb volt mindennél, és minden Õ benne áll fenn.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Sebelum segala sesuatu ada, Kristus sudah terlebih dahulu ada. Dan karena Dialah juga maka segala sesuatu berada pada tempatnya masing-masing.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	dan Ialah, yang terlebih dahulu daripada sekaliannya, dan segala sesuatu wujudnya ada di dalam Dia;
Italian	Egli è prima di tutte le cose e tutte sussistono in lui.
Maori	No mua ano hoki ia i nga mea katoa, nana ano hoki nga mea katoa i mau ai;
Norwegian	og han er før alle ting, og alle ting står ved ham.
Portuguese	Ele é antes de todas as coisas, e nele subsistem todas as coisas;
Rumanian	El este mai knainte de toate lucrurile, wi toate se yin prin El.
Shuar	Ashí najanamua nuna yaunchu, Krístuka tuke pujuwiti. Ashí najanamu írunna nuna emestsuk Wáinniuiti.
Spanish	Él antecede a todas las cosas, y en él todas las cosas subsisten.
Swahili	Kristo alikuwako kabla ya vitu vyote; kwa kuungana naye, vyote vyadumu mahali pake.
Swedish	Ja, han är till före allt annat, och alltsammans äger bestånd i honom.
Uma	Kako'ia-na ria napa-napa, mpolia' ria-imi-hana. Pai' hawe'ea to ria nakuasai pai' napewili' hante baraka' -na.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "consist": consisted, consistence, consistences, consistencies, consistency, consistent, consistently, consisting, consistorial, consistories, consistory, consists. (additional references)
	Words containing "consist": inconsistence, inconsistences, inconsistencies, inconsistency, inconsistent, inconsistently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Consist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: censis, cinsist, Conlisk, connais-tu, consat, conshi, consi, consis, consise, consista, constit, consus, contis, cosist, cosit, Cronista, konsepsi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "consist" (pronounced kunsi"st)
5	-n s i" s t	insist.
4	-s i" s t	assist, cist, cyst, desist, persist, subsist.
3	-i" s t	coexist, delist, dismissed, enlist, exist, fist, gist, grist, hissed, kissed, kist, list, missed, mist, pissed, preexist, reminisced, resist, schist, twist, wist, wrist.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tocsins.
	Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: scions, sonics, stoics, tocsin, tonics.
	-2 letters: cions, cists, coins, costs, icons, ontic, scion, scots, snits, snots, sonic, stoic, tonic.
	-3 letters: cion, cist, coin, coni, cons, coss, cost, cots, icon, into, ions, nits, otic, scot, sics, sins, sits, snit, snot, sons, sots, tics, tins, tons, toss.
	-4 letters: cis, con, cos, cot, ins, ion, its, nit.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: cistrons, consists, gnostics, sections, suctions.
	+2 letters: agnostics, canoeists, canonists, cessation, chitosans, coastings, colistins, colonists, concisest, consisted, cosseting, croissant, cytosines, discounts, linstocks, miscounts, monastics, sanctions, schizonts, scoutings, seicentos, sonicates, stictions, stockings, subtonics, viscounts, wainscots.
	+3 letters: actionless, bisections, caseations, causations, centesimos, cessations, coastlines, columnists, communists, conscripts, consistent, consisting, consistory, constrains, constricts, contusions, cornetists, cortisones, costliness, crayonists, croissants, custodians, cytolysins, dissection, economists, encomiasts, exoticness, gnosticism, incestuous, inspectors, intercross, isooctanes, noninsects, nostalgics, onomastics, resections, sclerotins, secretions, sectionals, seductions, selections, stanchions, stockiness, stockinets, subsection, suctorians, tectonisms, touchiness, transsonic, vasotocins.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
consist	10
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Consist

Definition: Consist

Consist

Verb

Specialty Definition: Consist

Synonyms: Consist

Synonyms within Context: Consist

Composition

Existence

Crosswords: Consist

Commercial Usage: Consist

References

Books

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Familiar Quotations: Consist

Aristotle

Blaise Pascal

Desiderius Erasmus

Karl Marx

Marques De Pombal

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas Fuller

Historic Usage: Consist

John Locke

US Constitution

Amendment to US Constitution

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Consist

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Consist

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Consist

George Washington

Usage Frequency: Consist

Expressions: Consist

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Consist

Modern Translation: Consist

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Ancestral Language Translations: Consist

Bible Trace: Consist

Matched Bible Translations: Consist

Derivations & Misspellings: Consist