comprise (iou) and bungee jumping (sh)

comprise (iou)

comprise verb. Also comprize. LME.
[French compris(e) pa. pple of comprendre COMPREHEND. Cf. APPRISE verb1.]
I. verb trans.
a. Lay hold of, seize; Scot. seize legally. LME-L17.
b. Grasp mentally, perceive, comprehend. LME-L17.
Include, contain, esp. as making up the whole; extend to, encompass; consist of, be made up of. LME.
C. Bront? In her own single person she could have comprised the duties of a first minister and a superintendent of police. Max-Musc;ller The registers..comprised a period of 200,000 years. M. Meyer The ground floor comprised the shop, a tiny waiting room and the kitchen.
b. Enclose, hold. L15-M17.
c. Summarize, sum up. E16.
W. Paley Comprising what he delivered within a small compass.
Write as author, compile, compose. L15-E17.
Make up, constitute, compose. L18.
L. Durrell A few such sketches comprise the whole portrait of the author.
comprised of, composed of, made up of. L19.
II. verb intrans.
Be made up of. M20.
? Senses 5 and (now esp.) 6 are often regarded with disfavour.
comprisable adjective E17.

bungee jumping (sh)

Sport in which the jumper falls from a high place with a rubber ("bungee") cord attached both to his or her feet and to the jump site, and, after a period of headfirst free fall, is bounced partway back when the cord rebounds from its maximum stretch.

It traces its roots to the "land diving" practiced on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, in which divers jump off a high tower, their feet connected to it by a vine whose length is calculated to allow the jumper to fall until his hair just brushes the ground below. The Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, inspired by reports of the Pentecost Island divers, made the first Western bungee jumps, and bungee jumping was first offered commercially to the public in New Zealand in 1988.

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