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COMPRISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form or compose

Example:

These few men comprise his entire army

Synonyms:

be; comprise; constitute; make up; represent

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "comprise"):

make (constitute the essence of)

compose (form the substance of)

constitute; form; make (to compose or represent)

range; straddle (range or extend over; occupy a certain area)

fall into; fall under (be included in or classified as)

pose; present (introduce)

supplement (serve as a supplement to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Include or contain; have as a component

Example:

The record contains many old songs from the 1930's

Synonyms:

comprise; contain; incorporate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "comprise" is one way to...):

include (have as a part, be made up out of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be composed of

Example:

What does this dish consist of?

Synonyms:

comprise; consist

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "comprise" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

This is key to understanding the mysterious nature of dark matter that comprises most of the mass of the universe.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

And many of Saturn's moons are comprised primarily of ice, as are the particles that form Saturn's rings.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

Complex molecules comprising hundreds of atoms are rare beyond Earth.

(Complex Organics Bubble up from Enceladus, NASA)

The resulting bacterium is the first organism able to stably maintain DNA comprised of 3 types of base pairs.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

Such gut bacteria comprise a larger community of microorganisms, called the microbiota, that live on or in the human body.

(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A British Overseas Territory comprising a peninsula on the southern coast of Cyprus.

(Akrotiri, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine comprised of irradiated allogeneic pancreatic cancer cells transfected to express murine alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase with potential antitumor activity.

(Algenpantucel-L, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the N-terminal half of the histone-lysine N-methyltransferase MLL protein, including the AT hook DNA binding domain and the DNA methyltransferase domain, fused to almost the entire formin-binding protein 1.

(MLL/FNBP1 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of the N-terminal AT hook and DNA methyltransferase domains of histone-lysine N-methyltransferase MLL fused to all but the first 46 amino acids of the RNA polymerase II elongation factor ELL.

(MLL/ELL Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The ductal component comprises less than 50 percent of the tumor.

(Mixed Lobular and Ductal Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)