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constituent
English
Etymology
From Latin c?nstitu?ns, present participle of c?nstitu? (“I establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuo (“I set, place, establish”); see statute or statue, and compare institute and restitute.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?st?tju?nt/, /k?n?st?t?u?nt/
Adjective
constituent (not comparable)
- being a part, or component of a whole
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- authorized to make a constitution
- 1769, Junius, letter on 19 December, 1769, (part of Letters of Junius)
- A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
- 1769, Junius, letter on 19 December, 1769, (part of Letters of Junius)
Related terms
Translations
Noun
constituent (plural constituents)
- A part, or component of a whole
- 1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe (1869), page 11
- We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
- 1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe (1869), page 11
- A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
- A voter who supports a [political] candidate; a supporter of a cause.
- (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause
Translations
See also
- Constituent (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- constituent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- constituent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin constituens.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kons.ti.tu?ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kuns.ti.tu?en/
Adjective
constituent (masculine and feminine plural constituents)
- constituent (being a part of a whole)
Related terms
- constituir
Further reading
- “constituent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??s.ti.ty/
Verb
constituent
- third-person plural present/subjunctive of constituer
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon?sti.tu.ent/, [kõ??s?t??t?u?n?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon?sti.tu.ent/, [k?n?st?i?t?u?n?t?]
Verb
c?nstituent
- third-person plural future active indicative of c?nstitu?
Romanian
Etymology
From French constituant
Noun
constituent n (plural constituen?i)
- constituent
Declension
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- what constituents a good life
- what constituents present in solder
slice
English
Etymology
From Middle English slice, esclice, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjan?, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German sl?zan (“to tear”), Old English sl?tan (“to split up”). More at slite, slit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
Noun
slice (plural slices)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A piece of pizza.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
slice (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
Further reading
- slice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle
French
Pronunciation
Verb
slice
- first-person singular present indicative of slicer
- third-person singular present indicative of slicer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- second-person singular imperative of slicer
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sleggio, from *sleg, from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). See also Ancient Greek ?????? (lakíz?, “to tear apart”).
Noun
slice m (nominative plural slici)
- shell
Inflection
Derived terms
- slicén
Descendants
- Irish: slige
- Manx: shlig
- Scottish Gaelic: slige
References
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