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Regard vs Consist - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between regard and consist

is that regard is to have to do with, to concern while consist is to be composed, formed, or made up (of).

As nouns the difference between regard and consist

is that regard is a steady look, a gaze while consist is (rail transport) a lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.

As verbs the difference between regard and consist

is that regard is (obsolete) to set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect while consist is (obsolete|intransitive) to exist, to be.

regard

English

Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reguard, reguarde, from early (etyl) regard, from , from (etyl) reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard'', ''reward .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A steady look, a gaze.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 750:
  • He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard , and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
  • One's concern for another; esteem.
  • * 1842 , Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review , page 144:
  • This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking[...].
  • * 1903 , Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report , page 186:
  • We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard [...].
  • * 1989 , Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life , Cambridge University Press, page 399:
  • These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard .
    Derived terms
    * disregard * in regard * regardable

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) regarder, from (etyl) reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
  • There was a Judge in a certaine cite, which feared not god nether regarded man.
  • To look at; to observe.
  • She regarded us warily.
  • To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
  • I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
    He regards honesty as a duty.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
  • * Macaulay
  • His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
  • (archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If much you note him, / You offend him; feed, and regard him not.
  • To face toward.
  • * Sandys
  • It is a peninsula, which regardeth the main land.
  • * John Evelyn
  • that exceedingly beautiful seat of my Lord Pembroke, on the ascent of a hill, flanked with wood, and regarding the river
  • To have to do with, to concern.
  • That argument does not regard the question.
  • *
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * regarder * regardless * self-regarding

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    consist

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) consister, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , chapter=6, title= 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,
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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) comprise
    Derived terms
    * consist in

    Etymology 2

    From (consist) (verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
  • The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.
    Synonyms
    * (rail transport) rake

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