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Combined vs Constituent - What's the difference?

combined | constituent |

As adjectives the difference between combined and constituent

is that combined is resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge while constituent is being a part, or component of a whole.

As a verb combined

is past tense of combine.

As a noun constituent is

a part, or component of a whole.

combined

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge.
    • The combined efforts of the emergency workers kept the river from going over its banks, barely.

    Antonyms

    * uncombined * divided * separated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (combine)
    • The cook combined equal parts chocolate and vanilla batter in the cake.

    constituent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • being a part, or component of a whole
  • * Dryden
    • Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
  • authorized to make a constitution
  • * Junius
    • A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.

    Related terms

    * constitute * constituency * constitution * constitutional * constitutive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a part, or component of a whole
  • * Tyndall
    • We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
  • The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
  • A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
  • * Macaulay
    • To appeal from the representatives to the constituents .
  • * {{quote-news
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  • (legal) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
    • (Burrill)
  • (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.
  • *
    • Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase'' constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive 's inflection in English without saying that it's a ''Noun Phrase inflection.

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