Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: constituent
IPA transcription: [kənst'ɪtʃuənt]
Pronunciations of constituent
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: constituent(a), constitutional, constitutive(a), organic
    Meaning: constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: component, constituent, element
    Meaning: an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"
  • Synonyms: constituent
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • If they had waited for the Constituent Assembly--"
  • My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
  • You know the Cadets do not really want the Constituent Assembly--not if the Bolsheviki can be destroyed now." He shook his head.
  • There are several distinct constituent rings in the entire Saturnian zone, and each perturbs the other, with the result that they ripple and pulse in concord.
  • If the spreading out depended on the prism only it should spread out just as much as before, but if it depended on the complex character of white light, this isolated simple constituent should be able to spread out no more.
  • White light was not simple but compound. It could be sorted out by a prism into an infinite number of constituent parts which were differently refracted, and the most striking of which Newton named violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
  • It may be said with truth that the year 1854 formed one continuous and solid political campaign from January to November, rising in interest and earnestness from first to last, and engaging in the discussion more fully than had ever occurred in previous American history all the constituent elements of our population.
  • We must allow that the words, first made use of by men, had in their minds a much more extensive signification, than those employed in languages of some standing, and that, considering how ignorant they were of the division of speech into its constituent parts; they at first gave every word the meaning of an entire proposition.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cory Booker, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oriel College, Oxford, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hyperion (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fentanyl, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Amanita phalloides, License CC BY-SA 4.0