different between comprise vs embody

English

Etymology

From Middle English comprisen, from Old French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere, contr. comprendere, past participle comprehensus (“to comprehend”); see comprehend. Compare apprise, reprise, surprise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p?a?z/

Verb

comprise (third-person singular simple present comprises, present participle comprising, simple past and past participle comprised)

1. (transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts). [from the earlier 15th c.]
2. (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose; to constitute. [from the late 18th c.]
   • 1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (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."

   • 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.

3. To contain or embrace. [from the earlier 15th c.]

4. (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

   Coordinate term: compose (close-ended)

Usage notes

Synonyms

• (to compose): form, make up; see also Thesaurus:compose

Related terms

• comprehensive

Translations

Further reading

• comprised of on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• comprise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comprise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• perosmic

French

Verb

comprise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of comprendre

English

Etymology

em- +? body

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?di/
• Rhymes: -?di

Verb

embody (third-person singular simple present embodies, present participle embodying, simple past and past participle embodied)

1. (transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

   As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

   • The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
2. (transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.

   The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

   The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

3. (transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.
   • 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)

     For use in a nursery for cradling a baby to sleep, a baby cradler comprising, in combination, a stand embodying a mobile base, uprights attached to and rising perpendicularly from the base and having axially aligned bearings, [...]

4. (intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.

Synonyms

• (represent in physical form): actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify
• (include or represent): embrace, encompass, enfold
• (unite in a body or mass): fuse, integrate, merge; see also Thesaurus:coalesce

Derived terms

• disembody
• embodiment

Translations

Anagrams

• boydem