Consist
Consist verb - To be in agreement on every point.
Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Concerns such as hotels consist of 'portal circuits', a set of linked buildings dotted all over the planet.
- At worst, the background music will consist of mandolin sonatas... during scenes set in Northern or Central Italy (to give you an idea, this is as incongruous as lions living in Antarctica).
- There are special systems for miners which allow to them make calls from deep mines; however they consist of not only the phone itself, but also a set of "picocells", or routing relays placed all over the mine.
Source: Super Cell Reception
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