English Dictionary

consist

/kənˈsɪst/

verb

(obsolete, copulative) To be. / (obsolete, intransitive) To exist. / (intransitive, with in) To be comprised or contained. / (intransitive, with of) To be composed, formed, or made up (of).

The team consists of five members.

意味（1）

(obsolete, copulative) To be.

Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth [translating loge] our pleasure and theirs?

意味（2）

(obsolete, intransitive) To exist.

[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.

意味（3）

(intransitive, with in) To be comprised or contained.

It is that contact between the mind and things does not consist, at any level, in perceptions of simple data or in associations of such unities, but always consists in apprehensions of more or less “structured” complexes.

意味（4）

(intransitive, with of) To be composed, formed, or made up (of).

The greeting package consists of some brochures, a pen, and a notepad.