"consist" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɒn.sɪst/ [UK] Audio: en-us-consist-noun.ogg Forms: consists [plural]
Etymology: From consist (verb). Head templates: {{en-noun}} consist (plural consists)
  1. (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit. Categories (topical): Rail transportation Synonyms: rake [rail-transport, railways, transport], formation [UK] [rail-transport, railways, transport] Translations (sequence of railroad carriages or cars that form a unit): 編組 /编组 (biānzǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), souprava [feminine] (Czech), samenstelling [feminine] (Dutch), rame [feminine] (French), Verband [masculine] (German), composizione [feminine] (Italian), configurazione [feminine] (Italian), formazione [feminine] (Italian), 編成 (hensei) (alt: へんせい) (Japanese), composição [feminine] (Portuguese), соста́в (sostáv) [masculine] (Russian), formación [feminine] (Spanish), đoàn xe ray (Vietnamese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /kənˈsɪst/ Audio: en-us-consist-verb.ogg Forms: consists [present, singular, third-person], consisting [participle, present], consisted [participle, past], consisted [past]
enPR: kənsĭst' Rhymes: -ɪst Etymology: From Middle French consister, from Latin consistō (“stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist”), from com- (“together”) + sistō (“I cause to stand, stand”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|consister}} Middle French consister, {{uder|en|la|consistō||stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist}} Latin consistō (“stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} consist (third-person singular simple present consists, present participle consisting, simple past and past participle consisted)
  1. (obsolete, copulative) To be. Tags: copulative, obsolete
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  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To exist. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
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  3. (intransitive, with in) To comprise or contain. Tags: intransitive
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  4. (intransitive, with of) To comprise, or to be composed, formed, or constituted of. Tags: intransitive, with-of Synonyms (be composed of): comprise, be compose of Translations (to be composed (of)): تَكَوَّنَ (takawwana) (alt: of: مِن (min)) (Arabic), تَأَلَّفَ (taʔallafa) (Arabic), ibarət olmaq (Azerbaijani), склада́цца (skladácca) [imperfective] (Belarusian), състоя́ се (sǎstojá se) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), съста́вен съм (sǎstáven sǎm) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), consistir (Catalan), 由 ...) 組成 /组成 (yóu) (english: (of) (Chinese Mandarin), 由 ...) 構成 /构成 (yóu) (english: (of) (Chinese Mandarin), skládat se [imperfective] (Czech), bestå (Danish), bestaan uit (Dutch), konsisti (Esperanto), ampleksi (Esperanto), koostua [with-elative] (Finnish), consister (of: de) (French), de) (english: se composer (of) (French), consistir (Galician), aus) bestehen (english: (of) (German), αποτελούμαι (apoteloúmai) (Greek), συνίσταμαι (synístamai) (Greek), samanstanda (af) (Icelandic), consistere (english: of: di) (Italian), comporsi (Italian), configurarsi (Italian), ...から) 成り立つ (...kara) (english: (of) (alt: なりたつ) (Japanese), ...から) 成る (...kara) (english: (of) (alt: なる) (Japanese), ...되어 있다 (...doeeo itda) (Korean), ...으로/로 구성되다 (...euro/ro guseongdoeda) (Korean), cōnstō (Latin), се состои (se sostoi) [imperfective] (Macedonian), bestå (Norwegian Bokmål), składać się (of: z) [imperfective] (Polish), consistir (Portuguese), consta (Romanian), consista (Romanian), скла́дываться (skládyvatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), са́стојати се [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), sástojati se [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), skladať sa [imperfective] (Slovak), biti sestavljen [imperfective] (Slovene), consistir (Spanish), vara (av) (Swedish), bestå (av) (Swedish), склада́тися (skladátysja) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), binädön (Volapük), cynnwys (Welsh), באַשטיין (bashteyn) (alt: of: פֿון) (Yiddish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: consist in, consist of, inconsisting Related terms: consistence, consistency, consistent, consistory
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.",
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          "text": "Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth [translating loge] our pleasure and theirs?",
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          "text": "[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.",
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          "text": "First, because it is granted by all divines, that hypothetical necessity, or necessity upon a supposition, may consist with liberty.",
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          "text": "All things do not consist by Christ today, and all the way back to Adam all things have not consisted by Christ.",
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          "text": "Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.",
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      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
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      "word": "consister (of: de)"
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      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
      "word": "consistir"
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      "word": "aus) bestehen"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
      "word": "samanstanda (af)"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
      "word": "consistir"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
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    {
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
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      "sense": "to be composed (of)"
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      "word": "consistir"
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      "sense": "to be composed (of)",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.