constituent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Being a part or component of a whole.

   “Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.”

2. sıfat Constitutive or constituting.

   “The skeleton varies in the proportions, and even to a certain extent in the connexions, of its constituent bones.”

3. sıfat Authorized to make a constitution.

   “the Constituent Assembly”

4. isim A part, or component of a whole.

   “We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.”

5. isim A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.

   “whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.”

6. isim A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.

   “The candidate himself, the son and heir of a peer, feels that he is truly of the same flesh and blood as his constituents; how amiably he smiles!—how bland are his manners!—and with what cordiality does he shake hands with the greasiest and the worst!”

7. isim A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.

   “But he [Joe Biden] believes that non-college-educated voters, the neglected constituents he wants to take back from the Republicans, hardly know about the big bills emanating from Washington with banal names.”

8. isim One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
9. isim 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.”