MEANING
1. To have specified parts or members as a whole.
2. To form the parts of a whole.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- comprise three sections
- comprise several groups
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Word forms
- Base
- comprise
- Past tense
- comprised
- Past participle
- comprised
- Present participle
- comprising
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- comprise
- Present continuous
- am/is/are comprising
- Present perfect
- have/has comprised
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been comprising
- Past
- comprised
- Past continuous
- was/were comprising
- Past perfect
- had comprised
- Past perfect continuous
- had been comprising
- Future
- will comprise
- Future continuous
- will be comprising
- Future perfect
- will have comprised
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been comprising
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: comprise; comprises; comprised; comprised; comprising Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: comprises.
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