Consist vs. Exist — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Consist and Exist
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Consist
To be made up or composed
New York City consists of five boroughs. See Usage Note at include.
Exist
To have actual being; be real.
Consist
To have a basis; reside or lie
The beauty of the artist's style consists in its simplicity.
Exist
To have life; live
One of the worst actors that ever existed.
Consist
To be compatible; accord
The information consists with her account.
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Exist
To live at a minimal level; subsist
Barely enough income on which to exist.
Consist
To be.
Exist
To continue to be; persist
Old customs that still exist in rural areas.
Consist
To exist.
Exist
To be present under certain circumstances or in a specified place; occur
"Wealth and poverty exist in every demographic category" (Thomas G. Exter).
Consist
To be comprised or contained.
Exist
To be; have existence; have being or reality
Consist
To be composed, formed, or made up (of).
The greeting package consists of some brochures, a pen, and a notepad.
Exist
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Who now, alas! no more is missedThan if he never did exist.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
Consist
(rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.
Exist
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
Consist
To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
He is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Exist
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.
Consist
To be composed or made up; - followed by of.
The land would consist of plains and valleys.
Exist
Have an existence, be extant;
Is there a God?
Consist
To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; - followed by in.
If their purgation did consist in words.
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Exist
Support oneself;
He could barely exist on such a low wage
Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
Consist
To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; - formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.
This was a consisting story.
Health consists with temperance alone.
For orders and degreesJar not with liberty, but well consist.
Consist
To insist; - followed by on.
Consist
Originate (in);
The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country
Consist
Have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in;
The payment consists in food
What does love consist in?
Consist
Be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous;
Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end
Consist
Be composed of;
The land he conquered comprised several provinces
What does this dish consist of?
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