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Constituent
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- 1 Being a part or component of a whole. not-comparable
"Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man."
- 2 Constitutive or constituting. not-comparable
"The skeleton varies in the proportions, and even to a certain extent in the connexions, of its constituent bones."
- 3 Constitutive or constituting.; Authorized to make a constitution. not-comparable
"the Constituent Assembly"
- 1 constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) wordnet
- 1 A part, or component of a whole.
"We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water."
- 2 an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system wordnet
- 3 A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
"whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes."
- 4 an abstract part of something wordnet
- 5 A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
"The candidate himself, the son and heir of a peer, feels that he is truly of the same flesh and blood as his constituents; how amiably he smiles!—how bland are his manners!—and with what cordiality does he shake hands with the greasiest and the worst!"
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- 6 (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction wordnet
- 7 A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
"But he [Joe Biden] believes that non-college-educated voters, the neglected constituents he wants to take back from the Republicans, hardly know about the big bills emanating from Washington with banal names."
- 8 a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes wordnet
- 9 One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
- 10 something determined in relation to something that includes it wordnet
- 11 A functional element of a phrase or clause.
"Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive s inflection in English without saying that it's a Noun Phrase inflection."
Etymology
From Latin cōnstituēns, present participle of cōnstituō (“I establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuo (“I set, place, establish”).
From Latin cōnstituēns, present participle of cōnstituō (“I establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuo (“I set, place, establish”).
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