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Määritelmät
Verbit
- To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
- To include, contain or embrace.
- (sometimes, proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose, to constitute. See usage note below.
- (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of ("open-ended", doesn't limit to the items listed; cf. compose, which is "closed" and limits to the items listed)
Esimerkit
- The whole comprises the parts.
- The parts are comprised by the whole.
- Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.
- Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.
- A team is comprised of its members.
- The members comprise the team.
- "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
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