英语词汇“constitute”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINconstitute

Origin:

1400-1500 Latin past participle of constituere ‘to set up, constitute’, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + statuere ‘to set up’

VERB TABLE

constitute

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	constitute
	he, she, it	constitutes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	constituted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have constituted
	he, she, it	has constituted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had constituted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will constitute
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have constituted

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

According to Marx, "money constitutes true power."
Alaska is the largest of the fifty states that constitute the USA.
Because journalists don't think the congressman constitutes much of a threat, they don't write or broadcast stories about him.
Children constitute four out of every ten poor people in the United States.
It is sometimes difficult to believe that the different groups living within our borders constitute a single society.
Nitrogen constitutes 78% of the earth's atmosphere.
The company's action constituted fraud.
The local authority decided that the present housing conditions constituted a risk for the mother and baby.
The spread of international crime and corruption constitutes a major threat to the global economy.
The thin layers that constitute the laser head are only 400 atoms thick.
We may need to redefine what constitutes a family.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

And their gardening shows are designed for audiences who live somewhere other than the sizzling hell that constitutes summer in Tucson.
No one doubts that they remain guesses; but what would constitute an intelligent as opposed to an unintelligent guess?
Taken together, they constitute a quite dramatic increase in inequality.
The focus is upon clues which together constitute a text ready for reading and interpretation.
The long ball constitutes more than half her shooting.
The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties.

Longman Language Activatorto form a particular part or amount of something► account for/represent

to be a particular amount or part of something: · In Japan, firms employing over 1000 people accounted for 50% of total employment.· This project alone represents half of the department's budget.· Women now represent 48% of the workforce.

► constitute

to be a particular part of something - use this especially to talk about scientific or official facts and figures: · Children constitute four out of every ten poor people in the United States.· Nitrogen constitutes 78% of the earth's atmosphere.

when a group of people or things form something together► make up/form

to be part of a particular group of people or to be the thing on which something else is based: · The six states that make up New England are Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.· These seven people made up the entire population of Oakminster.· The results of these studies formed the basis of state education policy in the 1960s.

► constitute

formal if a number of people or things together constitute something, they are the parts that together form that thing: · Alaska is the largest of the fifty states that constitute the USA.· It is sometimes difficult to believe that the different groups living within our borders constitute a single society.· Because journalists don't think the congressman constitutes much of a threat, they don't write or broadcast stories about him.

► add up to

if a group of different things add up to something, together they are that thing or they provide what is needed for the thing to exist: · Good wine, excellent food, and interesting company - it all added up to a splendid evening.· It adds up to a recipe for financial disaster.

to be something► be

· Sacramento is the capital of California.· Laurence Olivier was the greatest actor of his generation.· The state of the economy is our biggest problem.· The Somme was the bloodiest battle of the First World War.· When it's finished, it will be the biggest office development in Europe.

► represent

: represent an improvement/an obstacle/a challenge etc formal used to say that something, especially something important or serious, should be thought of as a particular thing: · There is no doubt that this new type of tyre represents a major advance in road safety.· Einstein's theory represented a significant departure from previous theories.

► form

if something forms something else, it has physical qualities that gives it a particular purpose or makes it have a particular effect: · The river formed a natural boundary between the two countries.· Oils produced by the skin form a protective barrier against infection and disease.

► make

to have the necessary qualities to be a particular thing or a particular type of person: · He'll make a good father.· This sofa doesn't make much of a bed.· You're quick but you'll never make a football player.

► constitute

formal if actions or behaviour constitute something, they are officially or legally considered as being that thing: · The local authority decided that the present housing conditions constituted a risk for the mother and baby.· The spread of international crime and corruption constitutes a major threat to the global economy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► constitute a violation

formal (=be a violation)· The actions may constitute a violation of the treaty.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► only

· These, however, constitute only 2 percent of average earnings.· Nonresidents thus constituted only 13 % of all hunters pursuing their sport in the State....· However, still in 2001 those aged over 85 will still constitute only 17 in each thousand of total population.· Even during the period of its greatest political autonomy, Mormonism constituted only a partial or semi-Asiatic society.· I know that negotiations do not only constitute a bargaining process, but also serve as fertile ground for creativity.· They constitute only some of the ingredients in the evaluation and diagnostic processes.· Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate's suitability for entry to an interpreters' qualifying course.· Legal forms not only constitute gender relations but represent ways of seeing roles and relations.

► together

· The focus is upon clues which together constitute a text ready for reading and interpretation.· Lethal and severe defects together constitute major congenital abnormalities.· The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness.· For Brooks, Wimsatt and Beardsley complexity and coherence together constitute the key considerations in the analysis of literary texts.· The three provincial assemblies together constitute the Territorial Congress.· What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation.· One eye may contain 15,000 elements, providing images that together constitute an almost hemispherical field of view.

NOUN► action

· Now that Luke no longer wanted her, he wouldn't care about anything she did, so no action of hers constituted defiance.

► basis

· These constitute the basis upon which the very possibility of a nation state rests.· But it also constitutes an admirable basis for liberalism.· What constitutes meaningful is the basis for a philosophical argument.· Nevertheless they constitute the basis and conditions for further actions and history.

► breach

· The very act of concluding a conflicting treaty would constitute breach and could be treated as such by its other parties.· The Standing might constitute a breach of sacramental etiquette, but it was hardly a breach of the peace.· First, there is direct inconsistency in the sense that compliance with one would necessarily constitute breach of the other.· There is the difficult issue of whether use as opposed to disclosure constitutes breach.· They claimed it was inaccurate, misleading and constituted a breach of journalistic ethics.

► class

· Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.· The court's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision.· Or the society constituted by the class that traditionally was born to rule?· The longest-lasting is the struggle for the working class to constitute itself as a class, to overcome its internal fragmentation.

► definition

· It is in this context that we must read the definitions and practices that constituted Victorian sexuality.· The good news is that in many countries the definition of what constitutes ideal family size is already evolving downward.· Despite the recent advent of statute law in this area, there remains no statutory definition of what constitutes insider trading.· There is no agreed definition as to what constitutes a knowledge worker.· Their definition of what constitutes a husband, a wife, and a marital relationship will be negotiated.· The answer lies in the provision of a structured Church and in the definition of what constituted heretical belief.· The first set consists of institutional and professional definitions of what constitutes news.· The definition of what constitutes an institution varies across time and between different countries.

► fact

· Goodfellow confirmed that the facts can constitute both reckless and unlawful act manslaughter, but the rules differ.· The Divisional Court concluded that nothing in that statement of facts constituted a threat, and the conviction was quashed.

► form

· History is the realm of violence and war; it constitutes another form by which the other is appropriated into the same.· Does this not constitute a radically different form of theism from that practised by the Near Eastern religions?· As such, it has not hitherto constituted a particularly significant form of protest either numerically or politically.· Are theories just another kind of story, or do they constitute a radically distinct form of discourse?· By most criteria, this behaviour would constitute a form of complicity.· Penalty fees or fines constitute another form of economic incentive for not violating emission standards and these are widely adopted.· The imposition of the retirement condition constituted a novel form of institutionalized dependence.

► idea

· Parish authorities generally were constantly reviewing their ideas about what constituted a minimum acceptable subsistence payment during this period.· Its documentation is very idiosyncratic, and clearly reflects Crew's own ideas of what constitutes good text.

► majority

· This is so also for children, so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets.· Labour's historic constituencies on this question no longer constitute a majority.· Usually only blackness is named, which constitutes the white majority as the norm.

► offence

· Organising or participating in a march in breach of any such condition constitutes an offence.· The official reason was that the painting was obscene and constituted an offence against religion.· Publication to a single person is, impliedly, insufficient to constitute the offence.· Development carried out in contravention of a stop notice constitutes an offence.· Thus where the advertisement constitutes a criminal offence, it would seem pointless to complain to the Director General.· Using a vehicle in contravention of the relevant statutory provisions constitutes a criminal offence.· We might also note that what constitutes an offence in legal terms also changes over time.

► part

· History constituted a vital part of the class struggle.· Fuel cells, which provide electricity generated by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, constitute one part of that research.· The second sentence constitutes part of the setting along with the time elements established in the first sentence.· Unlike on Earth, most of the visible features on the Moon are circles or great arcs constituting parts of circles.· These are the subtle mind currents which emanate from all living creatures and constitute a part of their aura.· It is not constituted by many distinct parts, linked together by chance.· Please refer to the Policy commentary for details of what items should not constitute part of the breakdown account.· Investigations into law enforcement officers' behavior were reduced, though they still constituted a large part of the case load.

► percent

· Also in 1983, young women constituted 38 percent of the number of students in advanced-level courses in polytechnics.· Women constitute almost 58 percent of the total work-force, up from 45 percent in the seventies.· In enamel these crystals are very closely and beautifully packed together soas to constitute 99 percent by volume of the material.· Currently, a court-ordered desegregation plan mandates that no single ethnicity can constitute more than 40 percent of a school.· This constituted 22 percent of the total prison population.· The roots, which remain in place, constitute about 20 percent of the biomass, and will oxidize eventually.· In 1950 the 660,000 tribespeople constituted 91 percent of the total population of the Hill Tracts.· Since according to the most recent census, women constitute 51 percent of the population, that sounded good to me.

► problem

· These accurate determinations constituted important problems at the time.· Failure to specify this third variable and its effects on x and y constitutes the problem of spuriousness.· Attitude research was the property of no school in this respect and constituted a set of problems to which all might contribute.· It was female sexuality that constituted the social problem, because through it the race was perpetuated.· It would not constitute an insurmountable problem.· But the law itself constitutes a further problem for the criminal justice system.· Did the women of the locality - and/or the imagination - constitute a perennial problem?· The sexiness of some pre-pubertal children can constitute something of a problem.

► question

· Social distance can be expressed as a series of questions constituting a rating scale.· There have been a number of court cases involving the question of whether videotaping constitutes fair use.· Some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour.· But the question is how this constitutes a subjective difference.· The question is, what constitutes wild salmon at its best?· This raises the question of what constitutes the community.

► source

· This constituted an important source of financial support.· Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them.· The annual population estimates constitute the principal source of official statistics on sub-national populations.

► threat

· Finally they do not generally consider that its use constitutes any threat to them.· Perhaps the argument that constituted the most serious threat to Copernicus was the so-called tower argument.· The inflationary spiral constituted a grave threat which, if not halted, could jeopardise the entire economy.· The foreigners in Ottawa constitute an ominous threat to the integrity and autonomy of our province.· The Divisional Court concluded that nothing in that statement of facts constituted a threat, and the conviction was quashed.· The process constitutes a national threat because it will break up the United Kingdom.· Obviously that constitutes a threat for the future.

► view

· Similarly, there have been different views on what constitutes economic development.· Depending on your point of view, this can constitute either an opportunity for excellence or a disaster in the making.· Do men and women hold different views about what constitutes health?· In his statement that the point of view constitutes its object.· Ideals also vary, and the view of what constitutes perfect bodily proportions changes from one generation to the next.· Although such a view constitutes the theory, the reality is vastly different.