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essential
English
Alternative forms
- essentiall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Late Latin essenti?lis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?n.??l/, [??s?n.t??l]
- Hyphenation: es?sen?tial
Adjective
essential (comparative more essential, superlative most essential)
- Necessary.
- Synonyms: indispensable; see also Thesaurus:requisite
- Antonyms: accidental, accessorial, incidental, unnecessary, unneeded
- Very important; of high importance.
- Synonyms: crucial; see also Thesaurus:important
- Antonyms: unimportant; see also Thesaurus:insignificant
- (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intrinsic, Thesaurus:bare-bones
- Antonyms: adscititious; see also Thesaurus:extrinsic
- Really existing; existent.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:existent
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent
- (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
Antonyms
- inessential, unessential, non-essential, nonessential
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
essential (plural essentials)
- A necessary ingredient.
- A fundamental ingredient.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
- essence
Translations
Further reading
- essential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- siletanes
essential From the web:
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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
constituent From the web:
- what constituents
- what constituents means
- what constituent of food forms the bulk
- what constituent assembly
- what constituents a business environment
- what constituents pain contains
- what constituents a good life
- what constituents present in solder
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