verb
definition
To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
example
to contribute articles to a journal
Examples of contribute in a Sentence
You all contribute to what we're doing.
I want someone who can contribute intelligent conversation, not grovel at my feet.
They will contribute to the greater good.
You just want to contribute and I'm sure you can.
You contribute nothing, yet the whole world revolves around you.
How could I help contribute to your volunteer project?
When applying for a job, show how you can contribute to the success of the company.
Numerous institutions contribute to the entertainment of visitors.
Would you contribute your anonymous location to a traffic speed optimization engine?
People will only contribute to the extent that their most personal information is protected.
A bright color can actually contribute to an overall slimmer appearance!
Some of these criticisms are relatively minor, such as the belief that MySpace has security flaws in its site design that can contribute to problems with spam and spyware.
But how much can building parks and painting murals realistically contribute to the peace process?
Swimming pools, both large community pools and small backyard pools contribute to summer season safety issues.
When you turn 50, you can contribute more.
This has made it easy for the states to the west to contribute raw materials, notably coal and iron, adding these to the natural raw products of New York.
Passengers' luggage and personal effects, not shipped under bill of lading, shall not contribute to G.A.
The fundamental idea is that the several interests at risk shall contribute in proportion to the benefits they have severally received by the completion of the adventure.
The liability to contribute is inchoate only when the sacrifice has been made.
They may also contribute parks.
When only sixteen years old she had begun to contribute poems to New York periodicals.
He succeeded, however, in compelling the archbishop of Mainz and the bishops of Wiirzburg and Bamberg to contribute to the cost of his mobilization.
As vegetation begins to appear, herds of wild elephants and buffaloes are attracted by the supply of food and the solitude of the newly-formed land, and in their turn contribute to manure the soil.
Dissenters are bound to contribute to the maintenance of the Swedish Church, in consideration of the secular duties of the priests.
At the same time Coleridge began to contribute to the Courier.
In that city all is ordained by reason working intelligently, and the members exist for the sake of one another; there is an intimate connexion (avp raeaa) between them which makes all the wise and virtuous friends, even if personally .unknown, and leads them to contribute to one another's good.
The aim of the science as laid down by Galton is to bring as many influences as can reasonably be employed, to cause the useful classes in the community to contribute more than their proportion to the next generation.
Viewed as a whole, Portuguese administration has been carried on under difficulties which have rendered it costly and inefficient, the home government being compelled to contribute a large annual subsidy towards its maintenance.
In January 1361 building work at Windsor was vigorously resumed, and again the sheriffs were ordered to contribute their quotas of 40 freestone masons and 40 cementarii to Wykeham's charge.
After a brilliant university career in Paris he began in 1828 to contribute to the Journal des Debats, on the staff of which he remained for nearly half a century.
Soon afterwards he exchanged his chair of history for one of poetry, continuing to contribute political articles to the Debats, and sitting as deputy in the chamber from 1835 to 1848.
Ciliary movements, which undoubtedly contribute in bringing the surface into contact with larger supplies of oxygen and other fluids in unity of time, are not so rapid or so extensive when compared with other standards than the apparent dimensions of the microscopic field.
Notwithstanding the continuous pressure of an active business life he found time to contribute largely many valuable articles to the magazines and newspapers, and took an active part in the proceedings of the Royal Statistical Society (of which he was one of the honorary secretaries, editor of its journal, and in1869-1871president) and the Political Economy Club.
The skeletons of many other organisms, such as Polyzoa and Mollusca, contribute to coral masses but cannot be included in the term "coral."
We can all contribute to helping maintain genetic diversity locally.
It was worthwhile to contribute.
Dentures do not have to look artificial, and can contribute to facial beauty.
Together they contribute to the field of cultural criminology.
How did the Tories contribute to their own downfall?
We have a kitty for shopping which takes account of our means to contribute.
These are significant developments that may contribute to supporting children's emergent literacy and numeracy.
Do you know of anyone that could contribute to the charity fund?
Consumer waste, commonly called municipal solid waste, includes the paper products, cans, bottles and plastics that consumers contribute to their community recycling programs.
A stylish alternative to basic jeans and shorts during spring and summer, capri pants contribute to a laid-back, feminine appearance that looks effortlessly pretty.
He invited the nation to contribute to the support of the orphans of Viirosmarty when that great poet died.
In like manner, any school that raises $20 for a library will receive the same amount from the state, which will also contribute $10 each year thereafter for maintenance, if the school raises a similar sum.
Recognizing the necessity of some one in the province with full power " to do all things that may contribute to the good and advancement of the same," they directed the appointment of the American Board of Proprietors - a body of men identified with the province, who with the deputy-governor were to look after the proprietary interests in such matters as the approval of legislation and the granting of lands, and thereby prevent the delay caused by the transmission of such matters to England for approval.
The volcanic rocks occur on the tableland of New South Wales, and contribute much to the fertility of their soils.
The elytra serve as protectors to the wings when the wings are folded upon the back of the insect, and as they are extended on either side of the body more or less horizontally when the insect is flying they contribute to flight indirectly, in virtue of their being carried forward by the body in motion.
It is furnished with springs at its root to contribute to its continued play, and is applied to the air by a direct piston action in such a way that it descends in a downward and forward direction during the down stroke, and ascends in an upward and forward direction during the up stroke.