Consist vs Preposition - What's the difference?
consist | preposition |
(obsolete) To exist, to be.
*, II.15:
*:Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth our pleasure and theirs?
To be comprised or contained (in).
To be composed, formed, or made up (of).
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, title= (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
(grammar) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival]] or [[adverb, adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
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(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
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To place in a location before some other event occurs.
As nouns the difference between consist and preposition
is that consist is (rail transport) a lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit while preposition is preposition.As a verb consist
is (obsolete|intransitive) to exist, to be.consist
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) consister, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state,
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
Synonyms
* (be composed of) compriseDerived terms
* consist inEtymology 2
From (consist) (verb).Noun
(en noun)- The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.
Synonyms
* (rail transport) rakeExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* tocsins English heteronymspreposition
English
(wikipedia preposition)Etymology 1
From (etyl) praepositio'', from ''praeponere'' (to place before); ''prae'' (before) + ''ponere'' (to put, place); compare French ''''. (See position, and compare provost.) So called because it is usually placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in .Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition , the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT:
(121) (a) [To whom''] can I send this letter —?
(121) (b) [''About what''] are they quarrelling —?
(121) (c) [''In which book ] did you read about it —?
- He made a long preposition and oration.
Hypernyms
* adpositionCoordinate terms
* circumposition * postpositionDerived terms
* preposition of time * preposition of place * prepositional * prepositionally * prepositional phraseSee also
* preverbEtymology 2
From pre- + positionAlternative forms
* pre-positionVerb
(en verb)- It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.