constituted
past simple and past participle ofconstitute
| 单词 | constituted |
| 释义 | constituted past simple and past participle ofconstitute constitute verb uk/ˈkɒn.stɪ.tʃuːt/us/ˈkɑːn.stə.tuːt/constituteverb(BE CONSIDERED AS)C1[L only+ noun,not continuous]formal to be or beconsideredas something: Thislatestdefeatconstitutes amajorsetbackfor the Democrats.
Existing and being
constituteverb(FORM PART OF)C1[Lnot continuous] toformor make something: Women constitute about tenpercentof Parliament. The under-18s constitutenearly25percentof the town'spopulation. Comprising and consisting of
Examplesofconstitutedconstituted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But archaeology should be engaged in examining exactly how subjects wereconstitutedin the past in relation to specific sociopolitical apparatuses. From theCambridge English Corpus This would haveconstituteda solid front facing up the party politics, which ultimately destroyed the project. From theCambridge English Corpus One complete set of measurements was made upstream of curvature in the unperturbed boundary layer, and thisconstituteda reference set. From theCambridge English Corpus A metrical family isconstitutedby a set of surface syllable sequences that may realize an abstract metrical template. From theCambridge English Corpus Through an automated mirror system, monochromatic light was directed to any one of the three panels; thisconstitutedthe test light. From theCambridge English Corpus In another kind of response, the crisis of legitimacy, emerging from the lack of legal status of sambandham,constitutedthe very ground for concern. From theCambridge English Corpus First, the size of the new republic required districts to encompass many small communities of interest that individuallyconstitutedrepresentational constituencies long before the founding. From theCambridge English Corpus There is no readily discernible difference in the size of the opposing constituencies and no way to know precisely how these groups wereconstituted. From theCambridge English Corpus To our mind their admonitions imply that the activities to which they were opposedconstitutednot isolated exceptions from everyday practice, but rather the rule. From theCambridge English Corpus Courtship, within the historically specific context of near 'total marriage ',constituteda transitional stage between gendered youth and gendered adulthood. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem of how to interweave the primordial+particularistic orientations with the universalisticconstitutedin all these civilizations a potential point of contention. From theCambridge English Corpus Haematological malignanciesconstituted32.0 % of cancer in our patients. From theCambridge English Corpus The group of the index-child household and the three types of household controlsconstitutedone family study of up to ten households each. From theCambridge English Corpus The concept of law isconstitutedby both layers of conventions. From theCambridge English Corpus The omission is a behavioral gapconstitutedby a deviation in the surrounding activity that makes it intelligible as human conduct. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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