Word Finder - comprise

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To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).

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The parts are comprised by the whole.

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To contain or embrace.

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Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.

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(sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose, to constitute. See usage note below.

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A team is comprised of its members.

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To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential, to define an invention. ("Open-ended", doesn't limit to the items listed; cf. compose, which is "closed" and limits to the items listed.)

How many comprise the group?

The population is known to comprise a mixture of races.

Can your notes comprise a user manual?

That element will comprise less than 1% of total litter and pollution.

This subject will comprise approximately 50% of the course content.

Its industrial establishments comprise tobacco, yarn, thread, linen and woollen cloth manufactories, bleaching and dyeing works, breweries and oil and flour mills.

The military and historical works comprise precis of the wars of Julius Caesar, Turenne and Frederick the Great.

The wild animals found in the district comprise a few tigers, leopards and wild elephants, deer, wild pig, porcupines, jackals, foxes, hares, otters, &c. The green monkey is very common; porpoises abound in the large rivers.

The monuments comprise the remains of nearly a score of temples and about 400 statues and bas reliefs.

The conformation of the mountain districts, which comprise all the southern districts of Badakshan and the northern hills.

The Aegithognathae, meant to comprise the passeres, woodpeckers and swifts, &c., are really schizognathous but with a vomer which is broadly truncated in front.

The ores found here comprise silver-free galena, sulphate of zinc and calamine.

Subdivisions may be, and often are, named according to the particular duties to which they are assigned, as la police politique, police des mceurs, police sanitaire, &c. The officers of the judicial police comprise the juge de paix (equivalent to the English police magistrate), the maire, the commissaire de police, the gendarmerie and, in rural districts, the gardes champtres and the gardes forestiers.

The grounds of the Cedar Rapids country club comprise 180 acres.

The industries comprise iron-founding, weaving and.

There are fewer pieces that comprise the motor and fewer parts overall.

The highland region of northern Albania is divided into two portions by the lower course of the Drin; the mountains of the northern portion, the Bieska Malziis, extend in a confused and broken series of ridges from Scutari to the valleys of the Ibar and White Drin; they comprise the rocky group of the Prokletia, or Accursed Mountains, with their numerous ramifications, including Mount Velechik, inhabited by the Kastrat and Shkrel tribes, Bukovik by the Hot, Golesh by the Klement, Skulsen (7533 ft.), Baba Vrkh (about 7306 ft.), Maranay near Scutari, and the Bastrik range to the east.

They comprise several ranges which the roads from the sea to the interior have to cross at right angles, thereby rendering communication and transport very difficult.

The leading industries comprise the making of agricultural implements and mineral waters, besides tanning.

The governor is a member of the Board of Pardons, the other members being the attorney-general, the secretary of state, the comptroller and the commissioner of agriculture; he and the secretary of state, attorney-general, comptroller, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, and commissioner of agriculture comprise a Board of Commissioners of State Institutions; he is also a member of the Board of Education.

The industries of Breda comprise the 'manufacture of linen and woollen goods, carpets, hats, beer and musical instruments.

They comprise the geographically distinct regions of the Anatolian plateau (Asia Minor), the Armenian and Kurdish highlands, the Mesopotamian lowlands, the hilly and partly mountainous territory of Syria and Palestine and the coast lands of west and north-east Arabia.

The climbers comprise a large number of species, some of which, like those of the parrot (Psittacidae) and woodpecker (Picus), are particularly noticeable in every wooded region of the country.

Those of John Kis, the friend of Berzsenyi, cover a wide range of subjects, and comprise, besides original poetry, many translations from the Greek, Latin, French, German and English, among which last may be mentioned renderings from Blair, Pope and Thomson, and notably his translation, published at Vienna in 1791, of Lowth's " Choice of Hercules."

Taking first this most northerly locality, in Grinnell Land, we find the flora to comprise 2 horsetails, i i Conifers (including the living Pinus Abies), 2 grasses, a sedge, 2 poplars, a willow, 2 birches, 2 hazels, an elm, a Viburnum, a water-lily, and a lime.

Teenagers comprise one-third of the foster care population.

These comprise the tax on buildrngsf and the trade-licence tax (impt des patentes).

Taking the term Italy to comprise the whole peninsula with the northern region as far as the Alps, we must first distinguish the tribe or tribes which spoke Indo-European languages from those who did not.

Their works comprise the whole literature of our faith during the decisive centuries which followed the apostolic age.

These comprise the Welsh portion of the MSS.

They comprise (a) the older works surrounding the town; (b) a group of coast batteries on the high ground of Cape Bizerta or Guardia, 4 m.

The violets comprise a large botanical genus (Viola) - in which more than 200 species have been described - found principally in temperate or mountain regions of the northern hemisphere; they also occur in mountainous districts of South America and South and Tropical Africa, while a few are found in Australasia.

This has not been demonstrated by an actual following out of the development, but the position of these pieces and the fact that they are (in Limulus) supplied by an independent segmental nerve, favours the view that they may comprise the sternal area of the vanished praegenital somite.

The Otomis comprise a large number of tribes occupying the plateau north of the Anahuac sierras.

The known fauna comprise boars, bears, deer, swans, geese, pheasants and quail.

His writings comprise a few letters and orations.

The imperial docks (five in all) and ship-building yards are on the east side facing the town, between Gaarden and Ellerbeck, and comprise basins capable of containing the largest war-ships afloat.

The manufactures comprise steel goods, mustard and vinegar, and a special kind of white lead (Kremser Weiss) is prepared from deposits in the neighbourhood.

The public portion of the buildings comprise an ornamental and lofty pavilion with entrances on each side, and a high-domed octagonal room in the centre, beautifully fitted and appointed, where public receptions take place.

Its ten Sephiroth, being farther removed from the En Soph, are of a more limited and circumscribed potency, though the substances they comprise are of the purest nature and without any admixture of matter.

On account of the absence of anything in the nature of a skull, Amphioxus has been regarded as the type of a division, Acrania, in contrast with the Craniata which comprise all the higher Chordata.

The equipment should comprise of; respirator face mask, eye protection, coveralls, heavy duty rubbers gloves and rubber or polyurethane boots.

The collections comprise wet preparations of human tissues and organs, skeletal material and some animal taxidermy specimens.

Abstract Thiourea inclusion compounds comprise a thiourea host structure containing one-dimensional (1D) tunnels within which guest molecules are accommodated.

The buildings comprise of part of Glenn Field, from the film Thunderbirds Are Go !

They comprise about 2,300 items, of which nearly half are tradesmen 's accounts to John Foster from the 1770s to 1810.

The collections comprise objects from all over Wales but there is a leaning toward Cardiff 's once-extensive tramp shipping industry.

Today vacuum tubes comprise only 18% of the market, with flat plate panels taking a massive 82 %.

To figure that out, but divide the price by how many units comprise of your purchase.

While picture taking may appear like a simple task, thousands of nuances comprise the popular hobby, all of which can prove overwhelming to the beginner.