Subsist vs Consist - What's the difference?
subsist | consist |
To survive on a minimum of resources.
* Atterbury
(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
* Alexander Pope
To continue; to retain a certain state.
* Milton
(obsolete) To exist, to be.
*, II.15:
*:Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth our pleasure and theirs?
To be comprised or contained (in).
To be composed, formed, or made up (of).
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, title= (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
As verbs the difference between subsist and consist
is that subsist is to survive on a minimum of resources while consist is (obsolete|intransitive) to exist, to be.As a noun consist is
(rail transport) a lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.subsist
English
Verb
(en verb)- to subsist on other men's charity
- And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
- Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.
Quotations
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) consister, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=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,
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* (be composed of) compriseDerived terms
* consist inEtymology 2
From (consist) (verb).Noun
(en noun)- The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.