Comprise

Etymology
< compris:, past participle of comprendre: <  comprehendere:, contr. comprendere:, past participle comprehensus:; see comprehend. Compare apprise, reprise, surprise.

Verb

 * 1) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
 * The whole comprises the parts.
 * The parts are comprised by the whole.
 * 1) To include, contain or embrace.
 * Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.
 * 1)  To compose, to constitute. See usage note below.
 * A team is comprised of its members.
 * The members comprise the team.
 * 1) * 1657,,  (translation), Prop. XXX
 * "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."
 * 1)  To include, contain or embrace, but not implying an exhaustive list.

Thesaurus
accouple, accumulate, add, add up to, admit, affect, agglutinate, aggregate, aggregate to, amalgamate, amass, amount to, articulate, assemble, assimilate, associate, assume, band, blend, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, bring, call for, cement, chain, clap together, coalesce, collect, combine, come to, come together, complete, compose, compound, comprehend, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, contain, copulate, count in, couple, cover, embed, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entail, envisage, fill, fill in, fill out, flux, form, fuse, gather, glue, hold, implicate, imply, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, internalize, involve, join, keep within, knot, lay together, lead to, league, link, lump together, make, make one, make up, marry, marshal, mass, meld, melt into one, merge, mix, mobilize, mount up to, number, number among, occupy, pair, piece together, presume, presuppose, put in, put together, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon up to, reckon with, reembody, require, roll into one, run into, run to, shade into, solder, solidify, span, splice, stick together, subsume, surround, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, tape, tie, tot up to, total, tote up to, unify, unite, unitize, weld, yoke

Translations

 * Bulgarian: състоя се, обхващам,  съдържам
 * Czech: skládat se
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian: включвам, обхващам
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * Hebrew:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian: състоя се
 * Dutch: ,
 * French: être composé de


 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: bestå av

Related terms

 * comprehensive

Verb
comprise