consist of

consist of (third-person singular simple present consists of, present participle consisting of, simple past and past participle consisted of)

1. To be composed or made up of something.

   The body consists of cells.

   The fieldwork consists of counting the species along the shoreline.

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

   • 1953, Ch'un-sun (何春蓀) Ho, Mineral Resources of Taiwan‎^[1], Ministry of Economic Affairs, →OCLC, page 31:

     The coal-bearing rocks consist of two ENE-WSW trending coal belts extending from the coast at the west of Keelung to the eastern edge of the Taipei basin near Sungshan and Neihu. The northern belt is formed of the Lower coal-bearing formation, beginning from Waimushan on the northern coast westwards through Neimushan, Tawulun, Luliao, to Neihu in a total extension of nearly 16 km.

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

     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, […].

   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     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.

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