Used in a Sentence

contributed

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for contributed.

Editorial note

To whoever contributed to it: the swscale library (colorspace conversions) was really helpful during my PhD work.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of contributed gathered in one view.

verb

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for contributed.

verb

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

Example sentences

1

To whoever contributed to it: the swscale library (colorspace conversions) was really helpful during my PhD work.

2

Redlining, white flight, drug epidemics and shoddy building codes and enforcement all contributed to urban decay in the Bronx in the 1970s.

3

Punchcards, followers, projects built and contributed to build a very comprehensive visual of a developer, his coding style, tools used.

4

Perhaps you would have contributed to that repository and now you won't.

5

We don't consider Robert J Oppenheimer or Albert Einstein mass murderers even though their work very directly contributed to the deaths of thousands of civilians.

6

For some reason, everybody feels like they should have a say in the direction of large Free SW projects, even if they have never contributed.

7

Three major factors contributed to making solar as viable as it is now, none of which Solar City invented (but it is executing on them better).

8

Even if you don't mean this comment to be insensitive, it is pretty insensitive to people mourning the permanent loss of a talented and loved person who contributed much to their communities and friends.

9

Right; I'm arguing that non-monetary compensation in no way has contributed in an amount adequate enough to compensate for the stagnation/backslide of wages.

10

I contributed, even though I don't use Clojure on a daily basis.

11

Could they have contributed to a join effort?

12

Projects like resque_scheduler, robut, resque_unit, and json_api_client were all extracted from our codebase, and we’ve contributed several patches back to Rails.

Quote examples

1

Lambda as well as map/filter/reduce were "a significant, early chunk of contributed code", not something he intended the language to have from the outset[1].

2

If it's "the randomness in a crypto transport had to be of arbitrary length, contributed both by client and server, and tied to keying" then it's just a somehow rephrased "the public randomness for each side should be at least twice as long as the security level" which I (and the article authors before) also quoted as a DoD excuse.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use contributed in a sentence?

To whoever contributed to it: the swscale library (colorspace conversions) was really helpful during my PhD work.

What does contributed mean?

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

What part of speech is contributed?

contributed is commonly used as verb.