comprise
• verb 1 be made up of; consist of. 2 (also be comprised of) make up; constitute. — USAGE Traditionally, comprise means ‘consist of’ and should not be used to mean ‘constitute or make up (a whole)’. However, a passive use of comprise is becoming part of standard English: this use (as in the country is comprised of twenty states) is more or less synonymous with the traditional active sense (as in the country comprises twenty states). — ORIGIN from French, ‘comprised’, from comprendre ‘comprehend’.
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