Definition of constitute in English:

constitute

verb ˈkɒnstɪtjuːtˈkɑnstəˌt(j)ut

[with object]

1Be (a part) of a whole.
lone parents constitute a great proportion of the poor
Example sentencesExamples
- At present, credits constitute 40 per cent of the banks' assets to give them the top slot in the banks' assets.
- Europe was increasingly concentrating power into the hands of elite groups, who constituted a very small proportion of the total population.
- The in-form striker polled 1,024 votes from non-League fans constituting some 15 per cent of the 6,599 total.
- With pedestrians constituting the highest number of victims of road accidents, it is necessary for the traffic police to man pedestrian crossings and put up safety signboards wherever necessary.
- Those metasediments that are present probably constitute no more than 30% of the belt.
- The two subfamilies together constitute approximately 1.1 % of the entire genome.
- Depleted uranium constitutes one of largest radioactive and toxic-waste by-products of the nuclear age.
- The present catch of about 1300 a year constitutes less than 0.15 percent of that population and is sustainable by any standards.
- Although important, medications for heart failure constitute only half of the treatment program.
- The result achieved by the scientists constitutes the tiniest first fraction of the effort required to grow a human baby, and is very far from being one of the many harder parts of the task.
- Since the partition of the country, Muslims constitute only 11 percent of the population.
- This combined migratory population constituted more than 68 percent of Israel's population at its inception in 1948.
- They are present in all eukaryotic genomes, where they constitute the most abundant class of mobile DNA.
- Almost half those murdered each year in the city are black youths, even though they constitute a very small fraction of the whole society.
- Since the Barony of Erris constitutes such a large part of Mayo, it is inevitable that its inhabitants were, and still are, deeply affected by emigration.
- Recall is more accurate when fish consumption constitutes a larger proportion of the diet and when recall is requested over a short and definite period.
- Such fees at present constitute about half the budget of the FDA's drug review center.
- The Budget only constitutes approximately 1.25 per cent of GDP of the EU as a whole.
- African Americans represent the third racial-ethnic group present in parishes, constituting 2.43 percent of average parish membership.
- To be sure, change was gradual, and some exhibited strong anger, but these women appear to have been more retrained and they constituted a smaller proportion of the suspects.
Synonyms
amount to, add up to, account for, form, make up, compose, comprise, represent
1. 1.1 Combine to form (a whole)
  there were enough members present to constitute a quorum
  Example sentencesExamples
  The data I have presented here constitute only a very modest beginning toward meeting the challenge.
  ‘The series of prints constitutes a well-defined and unified aesthetic whole,’ he says.
  Taken as a whole, these essays constitute a reasonably valuable addition to the scholarship on Japanese-Turkish relations.
  Unlike the European Central Bank, its members do not necessarily constitute a cohesive professional college.
  The rest of the country constituted enough of a quorum for these powerful people - who needs those pesky Californian and Floridian votes anyway?
  To be continuous is to constitute an unbroken or uninterrupted whole, like the ocean or the sky.
  The whole gamut of man's activities today constitutes an indivisible whole.
  At the same time, she says, you cannot erase the fact that immigrants do bring other heritages and cultures into what constitutes America.
  This left 1,948 aligned positions, which constituted the ‘whole’ data set.
  Together they constituted a quite damning indictment of the whole program.
  In aggregate, they constitute a real and present danger to global prosperity.
  Like ‘body’, dance's meanings and functions have been constituted differently at distinct moments in history.
  The Amy genes of Drosophila constitute a relatively small multigene family with two to seven members in different species.
  This explains why the region was under Dutch colonialism in the shortest period of time among the rest of what constitutes Indonesia.
  Most of us have a collection of old photographs that constitutes the ‘family album.’
  For society is not simply constituted by the mass of the individuals who compose it, by the territory they occupy, by the things they make use of, by the movements they carry out, but primarily by the idea of itself which it makes itself.
  There is, as a consequence, some repetition and little sense that the eleven articles constitute a coherent whole.
  If this is the case, then limited liability does not constitute the whole of the problem and removing it would be only a partial solution.
  Since members of the opposite sex constituted the most evolutionarily significant resources in the environment, competition for reproduction should be extremely effective.
  Like the Taj, the garden elements follow the Arabesque concept, standing on their own and constituting the whole.
  Synonyms
  comprise, make, make up, compose, add up to, account for, represent
  serve as, act as, function as, perform the function of, do duty for, make, embody, compose, comprise
2. 1.2 Be or be equivalent to (something)
  his failure to act constituted a breach of duty
  Example sentencesExamples
  Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States.
  It constitutes an immensely proud moment, a triumph for Scotland, and represents the true spirit of the Make Poverty History campaign.
  The same act carried out by two persons acting together may constitute conspiracy to defraud.
  The Australian Criminal Code also recognises various acts as constituting crimes against humanity.
  He said such an act constitutes a fraud which could be addressed by the courts of law, adding that such incidents should not be allowed by the farming community.
  It found that such a move would breach two clauses in the Competition Act 1991 and would constitute market sharing.
  That image constitutes my first real memory of a game.
  The cynicism of this act constitutes a serious breach of faith.
  This act constitutes industries' essential contribution to society.
  Its act has thus constituted a threat to China's national security.
  Failure to comply constitutes an act of discrimination.
  If my familiarity with the paper constitutes a ‘conflict of interest,’ then I'm guilty.
  Failure to act may constitute a waiver of the breach and, in certain circumstances, a variation of the agreement.
  But, we tell ourselves, getting titles like this into print constitutes an important cultural contribution.
  The majority of these were ruled out of consideration because the complaint did not constitute an offence or breach of discipline.
  The act of clarifying alerts town residents to the dangers of violating the act and therefore itself constitutes a form of warning.
  Any breach will constitute grounds for expulsion from the event.
  It followed that the government of Venice could not abide papal intrusion into its affairs, an act that constituted an assault on its sovereignty.
  The Geneva Conventions make reference to those acts which constitute war crimes under the Conventions.
  If these allegations are confirmed, such breaches of duty would constitute grave violations of medical ethics.
  Synonyms
  be equivalent to, be the equivalent of, be, embody, be tantamount to, be regarded as, act as, serve as
2Give legal or constitutional form to (an institution); establish by law.
the superior courts were constituted by the Judicature Acts 1873–5
Example sentencesExamples
- You have been sitting here in Court, and you have seen the way the Court is constituted, and that is done under the Judiciary Act.
- The statute constituting the Court of Appeal treats interlocutory appeals as being in a lower category than final appeals; the appeal may be heard by two Lords Justices instead of by three.
- No one doubts that legal consequences may flow from political facts, and that sovereignty is a political fact for which no purely legal authority can be constituted…
- The Tribunal is specially constituted to make such decisions and they did not give rise to a question of law.
- The Court was constituted - were there any others in dissent on this point?
- The report suggested that an Empowered Committee be constituted to examine and take speedy action on the recommendations.
- It was paid pursuant to a compromise of legal proceedings and it is a trite law that that constitutes a completely new agreement.
- This is in spite of the fact that the commission is a legally constituted Government body with specific functions to carry out on behalf of the Government.
- The original amendment to public finance law constitutes that the reserve cannot be used for any purpose other than one specifically recommended by the Finance and Economics Committee and approved by the States.
- The Sanhedrin and other duly constituted courts cannot be established until this ordination is reinstituted.
- There is insufficient evidence before us that one ingredient of the Section 5 offence was established to constitute a prima facie case.
- For example, the Bank of England is constituted a body corporate by its 1694 charter.
Synonyms
inaugurate, initiate, establish, found, create, set up, put in place, start, begin, originate, form, organize, develop, shape
authorize, commission, charter, induct, invest, appoint, name, nominate, install, empower, ordain, decree

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin constitut- 'established, appointed', from the verb constituere, from con- 'together' + statuere 'set up'.

Definition of constitute in US English:

constitute

verbˈkɑnstəˌt(j)utˈkänstəˌt(y)o͞ot

[with object]

1Be (a part) of a whole.
single parents constitute a great proportion of the poor
Example sentencesExamples
- Europe was increasingly concentrating power into the hands of elite groups, who constituted a very small proportion of the total population.
- The two subfamilies together constitute approximately 1.1 % of the entire genome.
- African Americans represent the third racial-ethnic group present in parishes, constituting 2.43 percent of average parish membership.
- Those metasediments that are present probably constitute no more than 30% of the belt.
- Although important, medications for heart failure constitute only half of the treatment program.
- The Budget only constitutes approximately 1.25 per cent of GDP of the EU as a whole.
- This combined migratory population constituted more than 68 percent of Israel's population at its inception in 1948.
- To be sure, change was gradual, and some exhibited strong anger, but these women appear to have been more retrained and they constituted a smaller proportion of the suspects.
- The present catch of about 1300 a year constitutes less than 0.15 percent of that population and is sustainable by any standards.
- Since the Barony of Erris constitutes such a large part of Mayo, it is inevitable that its inhabitants were, and still are, deeply affected by emigration.
- Since the partition of the country, Muslims constitute only 11 percent of the population.
- Almost half those murdered each year in the city are black youths, even though they constitute a very small fraction of the whole society.
- Recall is more accurate when fish consumption constitutes a larger proportion of the diet and when recall is requested over a short and definite period.
- With pedestrians constituting the highest number of victims of road accidents, it is necessary for the traffic police to man pedestrian crossings and put up safety signboards wherever necessary.
- Depleted uranium constitutes one of largest radioactive and toxic-waste by-products of the nuclear age.
- At present, credits constitute 40 per cent of the banks' assets to give them the top slot in the banks' assets.
- Such fees at present constitute about half the budget of the FDA's drug review center.
- The in-form striker polled 1,024 votes from non-League fans constituting some 15 per cent of the 6,599 total.
- They are present in all eukaryotic genomes, where they constitute the most abundant class of mobile DNA.
- The result achieved by the scientists constitutes the tiniest first fraction of the effort required to grow a human baby, and is very far from being one of the many harder parts of the task.
Synonyms
amount to, add up to, account for, form, make up, compose, comprise, represent
1. 1.1 (of people or things) combine to form (a whole)
  there were enough members present to constitute a quorum
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike the European Central Bank, its members do not necessarily constitute a cohesive professional college.
  The whole gamut of man's activities today constitutes an indivisible whole.
  Together they constituted a quite damning indictment of the whole program.
  Since members of the opposite sex constituted the most evolutionarily significant resources in the environment, competition for reproduction should be extremely effective.
  The rest of the country constituted enough of a quorum for these powerful people - who needs those pesky Californian and Floridian votes anyway?
  Most of us have a collection of old photographs that constitutes the ‘family album.’
  The data I have presented here constitute only a very modest beginning toward meeting the challenge.
  For society is not simply constituted by the mass of the individuals who compose it, by the territory they occupy, by the things they make use of, by the movements they carry out, but primarily by the idea of itself which it makes itself.
  If this is the case, then limited liability does not constitute the whole of the problem and removing it would be only a partial solution.
  The Amy genes of Drosophila constitute a relatively small multigene family with two to seven members in different species.
  This explains why the region was under Dutch colonialism in the shortest period of time among the rest of what constitutes Indonesia.
  There is, as a consequence, some repetition and little sense that the eleven articles constitute a coherent whole.
  In aggregate, they constitute a real and present danger to global prosperity.
  To be continuous is to constitute an unbroken or uninterrupted whole, like the ocean or the sky.
  At the same time, she says, you cannot erase the fact that immigrants do bring other heritages and cultures into what constitutes America.
  Like the Taj, the garden elements follow the Arabesque concept, standing on their own and constituting the whole.
  Like ‘body’, dance's meanings and functions have been constituted differently at distinct moments in history.
  This left 1,948 aligned positions, which constituted the ‘whole’ data set.
  ‘The series of prints constitutes a well-defined and unified aesthetic whole,’ he says.
  Taken as a whole, these essays constitute a reasonably valuable addition to the scholarship on Japanese-Turkish relations.
  Synonyms
  comprise, make, make up, compose, add up to, account for, represent
  serve as, act as, function as, perform the function of, do duty for, make, embody, compose, comprise
2. 1.2 Be or be equivalent to (something)
  his failure to act constituted a breach of duty
  Example sentencesExamples
  It constitutes an immensely proud moment, a triumph for Scotland, and represents the true spirit of the Make Poverty History campaign.
  Failure to comply constitutes an act of discrimination.
  Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States.
  Failure to act may constitute a waiver of the breach and, in certain circumstances, a variation of the agreement.
  The cynicism of this act constitutes a serious breach of faith.
  This act constitutes industries' essential contribution to society.
  The Geneva Conventions make reference to those acts which constitute war crimes under the Conventions.
  The same act carried out by two persons acting together may constitute conspiracy to defraud.
  If my familiarity with the paper constitutes a ‘conflict of interest,’ then I'm guilty.
  That image constitutes my first real memory of a game.
  The act of clarifying alerts town residents to the dangers of violating the act and therefore itself constitutes a form of warning.
  But, we tell ourselves, getting titles like this into print constitutes an important cultural contribution.
  Its act has thus constituted a threat to China's national security.
  Any breach will constitute grounds for expulsion from the event.
  It followed that the government of Venice could not abide papal intrusion into its affairs, an act that constituted an assault on its sovereignty.
  The majority of these were ruled out of consideration because the complaint did not constitute an offence or breach of discipline.
  He said such an act constitutes a fraud which could be addressed by the courts of law, adding that such incidents should not be allowed by the farming community.
  It found that such a move would breach two clauses in the Competition Act 1991 and would constitute market sharing.
  The Australian Criminal Code also recognises various acts as constituting crimes against humanity.
  If these allegations are confirmed, such breaches of duty would constitute grave violations of medical ethics.
  Synonyms
  be equivalent to, be the equivalent of, be, embody, be tantamount to, be regarded as, act as, serve as
2usually be constitutedGive legal or constitutional form to (an institution); establish by law.
Example sentencesExamples
- The report suggested that an Empowered Committee be constituted to examine and take speedy action on the recommendations.
- The Court was constituted - were there any others in dissent on this point?
- It was paid pursuant to a compromise of legal proceedings and it is a trite law that that constitutes a completely new agreement.
- You have been sitting here in Court, and you have seen the way the Court is constituted, and that is done under the Judiciary Act.
- The Tribunal is specially constituted to make such decisions and they did not give rise to a question of law.
- There is insufficient evidence before us that one ingredient of the Section 5 offence was established to constitute a prima facie case.
- No one doubts that legal consequences may flow from political facts, and that sovereignty is a political fact for which no purely legal authority can be constituted…
- The statute constituting the Court of Appeal treats interlocutory appeals as being in a lower category than final appeals; the appeal may be heard by two Lords Justices instead of by three.
- The original amendment to public finance law constitutes that the reserve cannot be used for any purpose other than one specifically recommended by the Finance and Economics Committee and approved by the States.
- This is in spite of the fact that the commission is a legally constituted Government body with specific functions to carry out on behalf of the Government.
- The Sanhedrin and other duly constituted courts cannot be established until this ordination is reinstituted.
- For example, the Bank of England is constituted a body corporate by its 1694 charter.
Synonyms
inaugurate, initiate, establish, found, create, set up, put in place, start, begin, originate, form, organize, develop, shape

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin constitut- ‘established, appointed’, from the verb constituere, from con- ‘together’ + statuere ‘set up’.

单词	constitute
释义	Definition of constitute in English: constitute verb ˈkɒnstɪtjuːtˈkɑnstəˌt(j)ut [with object] 1Be (a part) of a whole. lone parents constitute a great proportion of the poor Example sentencesExamples At present, credits constitute 40 per cent of the banks' assets to give them the top slot in the banks' assets. Europe was increasingly concentrating power into the hands of elite groups, who constituted a very small proportion of the total population. The in-form striker polled 1,024 votes from non-League fans constituting some 15 per cent of the 6,599 total. With pedestrians constituting the highest number of victims of road accidents, it is necessary for the traffic police to man pedestrian crossings and put up safety signboards wherever necessary. Those metasediments that are present probably constitute no more than 30% of the belt. The two subfamilies together constitute approximately 1.1 % of the entire genome. Depleted uranium constitutes one of largest radioactive and toxic-waste by-products of the nuclear age. The present catch of about 1300 a year constitutes less than 0.15 percent of that population and is sustainable by any standards. Although important, medications for heart failure constitute only half of the treatment program. The result achieved by the scientists constitutes the tiniest first fraction of the effort required to grow a human baby, and is very far from being one of the many harder parts of the task. Since the partition of the country, Muslims constitute only 11 percent of the population. This combined migratory population constituted more than 68 percent of Israel's population at its inception in 1948. They are present in all eukaryotic genomes, where they constitute the most abundant class of mobile DNA. Almost half those murdered each year in the city are black youths, even though they constitute a very small fraction of the whole society. Since the Barony of Erris constitutes such a large part of Mayo, it is inevitable that its inhabitants were, and still are, deeply affected by emigration. Recall is more accurate when fish consumption constitutes a larger proportion of the diet and when recall is requested over a short and definite period. Such fees at present constitute about half the budget of the FDA's drug review center. The Budget only constitutes approximately 1.25 per cent of GDP of the EU as a whole. African Americans represent the third racial-ethnic group present in parishes, constituting 2.43 percent of average parish membership. To be sure, change was gradual, and some exhibited strong anger, but these women appear to have been more retrained and they constituted a smaller proportion of the suspects. Synonyms amount to, add up to, account for, form, make up, compose, comprise, represent 1.1 Combine to form (a whole) there were enough members present to constitute a quorum Example sentencesExamples The data I have presented here constitute only a very modest beginning toward meeting the challenge. ‘The series of prints constitutes a well-defined and unified aesthetic whole,’ he says. Taken as a whole, these essays constitute a reasonably valuable addition to the scholarship on Japanese-Turkish relations. Unlike the European Central Bank, its members do not necessarily constitute a cohesive professional college. The rest of the country constituted enough of a quorum for these powerful people - who needs those pesky Californian and Floridian votes anyway? To be continuous is to constitute an unbroken or uninterrupted whole, like the ocean or the sky. The whole gamut of man's activities today constitutes an indivisible whole. At the same time, she says, you cannot erase the fact that immigrants do bring other heritages and cultures into what constitutes America. This left 1,948 aligned positions, which constituted the ‘whole’ data set. Together they constituted a quite damning indictment of the whole program. In aggregate, they constitute a real and present danger to global prosperity. Like ‘body’, dance's meanings and functions have been constituted differently at distinct moments in history. The Amy genes of Drosophila constitute a relatively small multigene family with two to seven members in different species. This explains why the region was under Dutch colonialism in the shortest period of time among the rest of what constitutes Indonesia. Most of us have a collection of old photographs that constitutes the ‘family album.’ For society is not simply constituted by the mass of the individuals who compose it, by the territory they occupy, by the things they make use of, by the movements they carry out, but primarily by the idea of itself which it makes itself. There is, as a consequence, some repetition and little sense that the eleven articles constitute a coherent whole. If this is the case, then limited liability does not constitute the whole of the problem and removing it would be only a partial solution. Since members of the opposite sex constituted the most evolutionarily significant resources in the environment, competition for reproduction should be extremely effective. Like the Taj, the garden elements follow the Arabesque concept, standing on their own and constituting the whole. Synonyms comprise, make, make up, compose, add up to, account for, represent serve as, act as, function as, perform the function of, do duty for, make, embody, compose, comprise 1.2 Be or be equivalent to (something) his failure to act constituted a breach of duty Example sentencesExamples Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States. It constitutes an immensely proud moment, a triumph for Scotland, and represents the true spirit of the Make Poverty History campaign. The same act carried out by two persons acting together may constitute conspiracy to defraud. The Australian Criminal Code also recognises various acts as constituting crimes against humanity. He said such an act constitutes a fraud which could be addressed by the courts of law, adding that such incidents should not be allowed by the farming community. It found that such a move would breach two clauses in the Competition Act 1991 and would constitute market sharing. That image constitutes my first real memory of a game. The cynicism of this act constitutes a serious breach of faith. This act constitutes industries' essential contribution to society. Its act has thus constituted a threat to China's national security. Failure to comply constitutes an act of discrimination. If my familiarity with the paper constitutes a ‘conflict of interest,’ then I'm guilty. Failure to act may constitute a waiver of the breach and, in certain circumstances, a variation of the agreement. But, we tell ourselves, getting titles like this into print constitutes an important cultural contribution. The majority of these were ruled out of consideration because the complaint did not constitute an offence or breach of discipline. The act of clarifying alerts town residents to the dangers of violating the act and therefore itself constitutes a form of warning. Any breach will constitute grounds for expulsion from the event. It followed that the government of Venice could not abide papal intrusion into its affairs, an act that constituted an assault on its sovereignty. The Geneva Conventions make reference to those acts which constitute war crimes under the Conventions. If these allegations are confirmed, such breaches of duty would constitute grave violations of medical ethics. Synonyms be equivalent to, be the equivalent of, be, embody, be tantamount to, be regarded as, act as, serve as 2Give legal or constitutional form to (an institution); establish by law. the superior courts were constituted by the Judicature Acts 1873–5 Example sentencesExamples You have been sitting here in Court, and you have seen the way the Court is constituted, and that is done under the Judiciary Act. The statute constituting the Court of Appeal treats interlocutory appeals as being in a lower category than final appeals; the appeal may be heard by two Lords Justices instead of by three. No one doubts that legal consequences may flow from political facts, and that sovereignty is a political fact for which no purely legal authority can be constituted… The Tribunal is specially constituted to make such decisions and they did not give rise to a question of law. The Court was constituted - were there any others in dissent on this point? The report suggested that an Empowered Committee be constituted to examine and take speedy action on the recommendations. It was paid pursuant to a compromise of legal proceedings and it is a trite law that that constitutes a completely new agreement. This is in spite of the fact that the commission is a legally constituted Government body with specific functions to carry out on behalf of the Government. The original amendment to public finance law constitutes that the reserve cannot be used for any purpose other than one specifically recommended by the Finance and Economics Committee and approved by the States. The Sanhedrin and other duly constituted courts cannot be established until this ordination is reinstituted. There is insufficient evidence before us that one ingredient of the Section 5 offence was established to constitute a prima facie case. For example, the Bank of England is constituted a body corporate by its 1694 charter. Synonyms inaugurate, initiate, establish, found, create, set up, put in place, start, begin, originate, form, organize, develop, shape authorize, commission, charter, induct, invest, appoint, name, nominate, install, empower, ordain, decree Origin Late Middle English: from Latin constitut- 'established, appointed', from the verb constituere, from con- 'together' + statuere 'set up'. Definition of constitute in US English: constitute verbˈkɑnstəˌt(j)utˈkänstəˌt(y)o͞ot [with object] 1Be (a part) of a whole. single parents constitute a great proportion of the poor Example sentencesExamples Europe was increasingly concentrating power into the hands of elite groups, who constituted a very small proportion of the total population. The two subfamilies together constitute approximately 1.1 % of the entire genome. African Americans represent the third racial-ethnic group present in parishes, constituting 2.43 percent of average parish membership. Those metasediments that are present probably constitute no more than 30% of the belt. Although important, medications for heart failure constitute only half of the treatment program. The Budget only constitutes approximately 1.25 per cent of GDP of the EU as a whole. This combined migratory population constituted more than 68 percent of Israel's population at its inception in 1948. To be sure, change was gradual, and some exhibited strong anger, but these women appear to have been more retrained and they constituted a smaller proportion of the suspects. The present catch of about 1300 a year constitutes less than 0.15 percent of that population and is sustainable by any standards. Since the Barony of Erris constitutes such a large part of Mayo, it is inevitable that its inhabitants were, and still are, deeply affected by emigration. Since the partition of the country, Muslims constitute only 11 percent of the population. Almost half those murdered each year in the city are black youths, even though they constitute a very small fraction of the whole society. Recall is more accurate when fish consumption constitutes a larger proportion of the diet and when recall is requested over a short and definite period. With pedestrians constituting the highest number of victims of road accidents, it is necessary for the traffic police to man pedestrian crossings and put up safety signboards wherever necessary. Depleted uranium constitutes one of largest radioactive and toxic-waste by-products of the nuclear age. At present, credits constitute 40 per cent of the banks' assets to give them the top slot in the banks' assets. Such fees at present constitute about half the budget of the FDA's drug review center. The in-form striker polled 1,024 votes from non-League fans constituting some 15 per cent of the 6,599 total. They are present in all eukaryotic genomes, where they constitute the most abundant class of mobile DNA. The result achieved by the scientists constitutes the tiniest first fraction of the effort required to grow a human baby, and is very far from being one of the many harder parts of the task. Synonyms amount to, add up to, account for, form, make up, compose, comprise, represent 1.1 (of people or things) combine to form (a whole) there were enough members present to constitute a quorum Example sentencesExamples Unlike the European Central Bank, its members do not necessarily constitute a cohesive professional college. The whole gamut of man's activities today constitutes an indivisible whole. Together they constituted a quite damning indictment of the whole program. Since members of the opposite sex constituted the most evolutionarily significant resources in the environment, competition for reproduction should be extremely effective. The rest of the country constituted enough of a quorum for these powerful people - who needs those pesky Californian and Floridian votes anyway? Most of us have a collection of old photographs that constitutes the ‘family album.’ The data I have presented here constitute only a very modest beginning toward meeting the challenge. For society is not simply constituted by the mass of the individuals who compose it, by the territory they occupy, by the things they make use of, by the movements they carry out, but primarily by the idea of itself which it makes itself. If this is the case, then limited liability does not constitute the whole of the problem and removing it would be only a partial solution. The Amy genes of Drosophila constitute a relatively small multigene family with two to seven members in different species. This explains why the region was under Dutch colonialism in the shortest period of time among the rest of what constitutes Indonesia. There is, as a consequence, some repetition and little sense that the eleven articles constitute a coherent whole. In aggregate, they constitute a real and present danger to global prosperity. To be continuous is to constitute an unbroken or uninterrupted whole, like the ocean or the sky. At the same time, she says, you cannot erase the fact that immigrants do bring other heritages and cultures into what constitutes America. Like the Taj, the garden elements follow the Arabesque concept, standing on their own and constituting the whole. Like ‘body’, dance's meanings and functions have been constituted differently at distinct moments in history. This left 1,948 aligned positions, which constituted the ‘whole’ data set. ‘The series of prints constitutes a well-defined and unified aesthetic whole,’ he says. Taken as a whole, these essays constitute a reasonably valuable addition to the scholarship on Japanese-Turkish relations. Synonyms comprise, make, make up, compose, add up to, account for, represent serve as, act as, function as, perform the function of, do duty for, make, embody, compose, comprise 1.2 Be or be equivalent to (something) his failure to act constituted a breach of duty Example sentencesExamples It constitutes an immensely proud moment, a triumph for Scotland, and represents the true spirit of the Make Poverty History campaign. Failure to comply constitutes an act of discrimination. Every act constituting torture under the Convention constitutes a criminal offense under the law of the United States. Failure to act may constitute a waiver of the breach and, in certain circumstances, a variation of the agreement. The cynicism of this act constitutes a serious breach of faith. This act constitutes industries' essential contribution to society. The Geneva Conventions make reference to those acts which constitute war crimes under the Conventions. The same act carried out by two persons acting together may constitute conspiracy to defraud. If my familiarity with the paper constitutes a ‘conflict of interest,’ then I'm guilty. That image constitutes my first real memory of a game. The act of clarifying alerts town residents to the dangers of violating the act and therefore itself constitutes a form of warning. But, we tell ourselves, getting titles like this into print constitutes an important cultural contribution. Its act has thus constituted a threat to China's national security. Any breach will constitute grounds for expulsion from the event. It followed that the government of Venice could not abide papal intrusion into its affairs, an act that constituted an assault on its sovereignty. The majority of these were ruled out of consideration because the complaint did not constitute an offence or breach of discipline. He said such an act constitutes a fraud which could be addressed by the courts of law, adding that such incidents should not be allowed by the farming community. It found that such a move would breach two clauses in the Competition Act 1991 and would constitute market sharing. The Australian Criminal Code also recognises various acts as constituting crimes against humanity. If these allegations are confirmed, such breaches of duty would constitute grave violations of medical ethics. Synonyms be equivalent to, be the equivalent of, be, embody, be tantamount to, be regarded as, act as, serve as 2usually be constitutedGive legal or constitutional form to (an institution); establish by law. Example sentencesExamples The report suggested that an Empowered Committee be constituted to examine and take speedy action on the recommendations. The Court was constituted - were there any others in dissent on this point? It was paid pursuant to a compromise of legal proceedings and it is a trite law that that constitutes a completely new agreement. You have been sitting here in Court, and you have seen the way the Court is constituted, and that is done under the Judiciary Act. The Tribunal is specially constituted to make such decisions and they did not give rise to a question of law. There is insufficient evidence before us that one ingredient of the Section 5 offence was established to constitute a prima facie case. No one doubts that legal consequences may flow from political facts, and that sovereignty is a political fact for which no purely legal authority can be constituted… The statute constituting the Court of Appeal treats interlocutory appeals as being in a lower category than final appeals; the appeal may be heard by two Lords Justices instead of by three. The original amendment to public finance law constitutes that the reserve cannot be used for any purpose other than one specifically recommended by the Finance and Economics Committee and approved by the States. This is in spite of the fact that the commission is a legally constituted Government body with specific functions to carry out on behalf of the Government. The Sanhedrin and other duly constituted courts cannot be established until this ordination is reinstituted. For example, the Bank of England is constituted a body corporate by its 1694 charter. Synonyms inaugurate, initiate, establish, found, create, set up, put in place, start, begin, originate, form, organize, develop, shape Origin Late Middle English: from Latin constitut- ‘established, appointed’, from the verb constituere, from con- ‘together’ + statuere ‘set up’.
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