Constituent
[kən'stɪtjʊənt] or [kən'stɪtʃuənt]
Definition
(noun.) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction.
(noun.) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; 'needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected'.
(adj.) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) .
Editor: Rudolf--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
(a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
(n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
(n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
(n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
(n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Component, element, principle, ingredient, component part.[2]. Elector, voter.
Typed by Anton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Voter, returner, sender, deputer, appointer, patron, ingredient, element,component
ANT:Representative, nominee, committee, constitution, system, whole
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Examples
- The best known constituent of the air is oxygen, already familiar to us as the feeder of the fire without and within the body. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The ability of the electric current to decompose a liquid and to deposit a metal constituent has practically revolutionized the process of printing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Another constituent of the air with which we are familiar is carbon dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Other plant products, such as nuts, have fat as their most abundant food constituent. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Thus the great masses,--earth, a ir, fire, water,--assumed as simple by many philosophers from the earliest times, were resolving in to their constituent parts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- After one has gone through the process, the constituent qualities and relations are elements, each possessed with a definite meaning of its own. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was thus that he studied the transfer of certain of the constituent parts of bodies by the action of electricity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Swedish investigator Scheele had, however, discovere d this same constituent of the air before 1773. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This substitute, however, was still obliged to account to his principal or constituent for the profits of the jurisdiction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The substance almost universally used as a rapid artificial bleaching agent is chlorine, best known to us as a constituent of common salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A less familiar but more abundant constituent of the atmosphere is the nitrogen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Davy showed, however, that this element is a constituent of many alkalis. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If the red light is compound, it will be broken up into its constituent parts and will form a typical spectrum of its own, just as white light did after its passage through a prism. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Chemical analysis shows oleomargarine to have substantially the same constituents and in almost the identical proportions of pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We may note here briefly the very various nature of the constituents of the British Empire in 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of all the vast group of salts, the most abundant as well as the most important is common salt, known technically as sodium chloride because of its two constituents, sodium and chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- An electric current can separate a liquid into some of its various constituents and to deposit one of the metal constituents on the negative electrode. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then this remarkable result came out, that however much a plant may otherwise differ from an animal, yet, in essential constituents the cellular constructure of animal and plant is the same. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It fell apart into its main constituents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now I have time to think of it, he never saw one of his constituents in all his days, until we saw them together! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As a legislator, he affords a bright example of a genius soaring above corruption, and continually aiming at the happiness of his constituents. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The sunlight separates silver chloride into its constituents, silver and chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No genuine politician ever treats his constituents as reasoning animals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Racemic acid, however, which is identical with tartaric acid in i ts chemical constituents, is optically inactive, rotating the plane of polarized light n either to the right nor the left. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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