comprise

verb

1. (transitive)To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).

   “Near-synonyms: subsume, contain, include, embrace, comprehend”

   “The whole comprises the parts.”

   “The parts are comprised by the whole.”

   “Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.”

   “Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.”

2. (passive, proscribed, sometimes, usually)To compose; to constitute.

   “Near-synonym: make up”

   “The whole is comprised of the parts.”

   “The parts comprise the whole.”

   “1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (translation), Prop. XXX "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."”

   “Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.”

3. To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

   “(close-ended)”