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UK
/kənsˈɪstəns/
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[ US /kənˈsɪstəns/ ]
[ US /kənˈsɪstəns/ ]
NOUN
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
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the property of holding together and retaining its shape
wool has more body than rayon
when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake
How To Use consistence In A Sentence
- This guilt factored in heavily in making me record on. we felt which if we take a night off, we would be vouchsafing 39 others down,! people w ho depended upon me to be there. we prided myself upon my consistence. Archive 2009-11-01
- Washed spodium (tutty?) mixed with grease, and not of a thinner consistence than dough, is to be carefully triturated, and moistened with the juice of unripe raisins; and having dried in the sun, moisten until it is of the consistence of an ointment. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
- The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
- This woman has become so desparate of late that inconsistence makes her sound like a hollow gong being hit by a one year old baby. Clinton: Democratic nomination process needs to change
- It was found that the synthesized polymer of BDME can dissolve the low boiling point impregnant system which could settle the problem both the diffluence of BMI and the consistence of BMI and EP.
- At the end of some five weeks, the common duration of life, the structure of the cord was represented by a semi-diffluent yellowish material, the consistence of which was so deficient in firmness as to allow the partial collapse of the membranes covering the affected portion, so as to exhibit a definite narrowing when the whole was held up (see fig. 79). Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
- It smells sweet and thick, and although the fragrance is alcohol-based and has a regular sort of consistence, one can't help but expect it to be gooey and oozing suggestively out of some ancient-looking phial. Mirra & Mirra by J & E Atkinsons: Perfume Review
- One pint each milk and emptins liquid yeast, laid into flour, in sponge; next morning add one pound butter melted, not hot, and knead into as much flour as will with another pint of warmed milk, be of a sufficient consistence to make soft—some melt the butter in the milk. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- But the frigorific effect of leafy structure is well observed in the deposit of dew and the occurrence of hoarfrost on the foliage of grasses and other small vegetables, and on other objects of similar form and consistence, when the temperature of the air a few feet above has not been brought down to the dew-point, still less to 32 degrees, the degree of cold required to congeal dew to frost [31]. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
- * The caul is a, thin membrane, about the consistence of very fine silk, which sometimes covers the head on a new-born infant like a cap. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three