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con⋅sist

[v. kuhn-sist; n. kon-sist]
–verb (used without object)
1. to be made up or composed (usually fol. by of): This cake consists mainly of sugar, flour, and butter.
2. to be comprised or contained (usually fol. by in): Her charm does not consist only in her beauty.
3. Archaic. to exist together or be capable of existing together.
4. Obsolete. to insist; urge.
–noun
5. Railroads.
a. the rolling stock, exclusive of the locomotive, making up a train.
b. a record made of this rolling stock.

Origin:
1520–30; < L consistere to stand together, stand firm, equiv. to con- con- + sistere to cause to stand, reduplicative v. akin to stāre to stand
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