COMPRISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comprise mean? 

• COMPRISE (verb)
  The verb COMPRISE has 3 senses:

1. be composed of

2. include or contain; have as a component

3. form or compose

  Familiarity information: COMPRISE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPRISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they comprise    ... he / she / it comprises   
Past simple: comprised   
Past participle: comprised   
-ing form: comprising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be composed of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

comprise; consist

Context example:

What does this dish consist of?

Hypernyms (to "comprise" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Include or contain; have as a component

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

comprise; contain; incorporate

Context example:

The record contains many old songs from the 1930's

Hypernyms (to "comprise" is one way to...):

include (have as a part, be made up out of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Form or compose

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

be; comprise; constitute; make up; represent

Context example:

These few men comprise his entire army

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "comprise"):

make (constitute the essence of)

compose (form the substance of)

constitute; form; make (to compose or represent)

range; straddle (range or extend over; occupy a certain area)

fall into; fall under (be included in or classified as)

pose; present (introduce)

supplement (serve as a supplement to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

This protein is comprised of the N-terminal portion of the long-chain-fatty-acid—CoA ligase 6 protein fused to most of the transcription factor ETV6 protein.

(ACSL6/ETV6 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Acrisorcin is comprised of two active ingredients, 9-aminoacridine and 4-hexylresorcinol, but its clinical use has been discontinued.

(Acrisorcin, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the muscles of the abdomen that comprise the abdominal wall; these muscles include the rectus abdominis, the external and internal oblique muscles, the transversus abdominis, and the quadratus abdominis.

(Abdominal Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

A zinc finger protein domain that is comprised of a C2C2 sequence in close proximity to an incomplete PHD domain containing a C4C4 sequence.

(ADD-Type Zinc-Finger, NCI Thesaurus)

This strain of viridae is a non-pathogenic human parvovirus that is icosahedral, 20-25 nm in diameter, minus sense, and comprised of a 5 kb. single-stranded DNA genome.

(Adeno-Associated Virus Type 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is comprised of part of the A-kinase anchor protein 9 N-terminus fused to the C-terminal half of the serine/threonine-protein kinase B-raf protein.

(AKAP9/BRAF Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Benign mixed neoplasm comprised of epithelial/glandular and mesenchymal structures.

(Adenofibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The icy relics comprise about 4 percent of the parent comet and range in size from roughly 65 feet wide to 200 feet wide.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

The sample comprised 87 women and 43 men, with an average age of 22 years.

(Increasing the level of physical activity is found not to improve the functioning of brown adipose tissue, University of Granada)

Our DNA, the human genome, comprises of a string of molecules known as nucleotides.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)