Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To be the elements or parts of; compose: Copper and tin constitute bronze.
- transitive v. To amount to; equal: " Rabies is transmitted through a bite; . . . patting a rabid animal in itself does not constitute exposure” ( Malcolm W. Browne).
- transitive v. To set up or establish according to law or provision: a body that is duly constituted under the charter.
- transitive v. To found (an institution, for example).
- transitive v. To enact (a law or regulation).
- transitive v. To appoint to an office, dignity, function, or task; designate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
- v. To make up; to compose; to form.
- v. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
- n. An established law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An established law.
- transitive v. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
- transitive v. To make up; to compose; to form.
- transitive v. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To set; fix; establish.
- To enter into the formation of, as a necessary part; make what it is; form; make.
- To appoint, depute, or elect to an office or employment; make and empower: as, a sheriff is constituted a conservator of the peace; A has constituted B his attorney or agent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. set up or lay the groundwork for
- v. to compose or represent:
- v. create and charge with a task or function
- v. form or compose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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We can dick around over what types of physical or mental pain constitute torture, but there doesn't seem like too much debate that "torture" means "something that is really really painful that would be used in extreme (or under no) circumstances."
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That means the 24 Republicans need to win constitute less than a third of those.
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Since when does the consumption of saliva or perhaps vomit is a better term constitute the violation of “the prime directive”?
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Similarly, Carey is right on the ball when he points out that the highbrow arts for want of a better term constitute a glorious opportunity for certain sections of the community to 'demonstrate', i.e. assert, their own superiority over the mere plebs who prefer Coronation Street to Hedda Gabler.
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Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein constitute founding stones for our present knowledge concerning the cholesterol metabolism.
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But, as we see clearly in this last case, when the relation and not the terms constitute the object, we have, if there is beauty at all, a beauty of form, not of expression; for the more mathematical the charm of music is the more form and the less expression do we see in it.
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The two works thus entitled constitute a more or less exact autobiography of the writer of them, from the date of his birth to the end of August, 1825.
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With that, we'll be happy to entertain any questions but I must remind you that some of the statements we made on this call constitute forward-looking statements.
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I'd also like to remind you that certain information discussed on this call constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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I would like to remind everyone morning that statements of our expectations in this call constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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