constituent
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6.3
- noun
- /kənˈstɪtʃuənt/
- Specialized
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constituente
- In this light, it does not matter what the body contributes to the act of thinking as a constituent of the human person.
- a semantic constituent
- a phonetic constituent
- include constituents
Examples
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In grammar, a noun can be a constituent of a larger sentence structure.
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It's not just a constituent, it's a noun phrase, right?
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And all of this is real, but the constituent is consciousness.
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So those are the constituent relations for the transport processes.
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On the other hand, rational distance is a necessary constituent of it.
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There is no fixed standard way of reconstructing the meaning out of only the constituents.
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If you break problems down into their constituent parts, it's a lot easier to examine those parts separately from each other, deal with each of them separately.
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Fuentes, then, sees myth as a constituent of totality.
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For the semantics of fictional narrative, inferences regarding aspects and constituents of acting are of special significance.
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The policy-maker retains the right to withhold endorsement should the constituent fail to abide by policy stipulations.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
A part of a sentence, for example a word or group of words
A main part of a sentence, like the subject or predicate
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
constituent = constitute (semi-transparent) = constitute + ent
Morphologically related to 'constitute' (something that composes a larger structure), but this is a technical grammatical sense that learners may not infer without linguistic knowledge.
Etymology
The word constituent comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and statuere 'to set up', meaning 'a part placed with others'. So in grammar a constituent is a word or phrase that is one of the parts that form a sentence.