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COMPOSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of creating written works
Example:
it was a matter of disputed authorship
Synonyms:
authorship; composition; penning; writing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)
Domain member category:
script (write a script for)
write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)
annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)
ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)
co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))
author (be the author of)
draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)
adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)
write copy (write for commercial publications)
rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)
dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)
paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)
profile (write about)
write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)
compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
versification (the art or practice of writing verse)
lexicography (the act of writing dictionaries)
redaction (the act of putting something in writing)
novelisation; novelization (converting something into the form of a novel)
metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))
historiography (the writing of history)
fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)
dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)
drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)
adoxography (fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects)
Derivation:
compose (produce a literary work)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Musical creation
Synonyms:
composing; composition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
arrangement; arranging; transcription (the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music)
realisation; realization (the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer)
recapitulation ((music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement))
Derivation:
compose (write music)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
Example:
he envied the composition of their faculty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
paste-up (a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The way in which someone or something is composed
Synonyms:
composition; constitution; make-up; makeup; physical composition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)
phenotype (what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment)
genetic constitution; genotype (the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism)
grain; texture (the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance))
karyotype (the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes))
Sense 5
Meaning:
The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
Example:
harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art
Synonyms:
composing; composition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)
Sense 6
Meaning:
An essay (especially one written as an assignment)
Example:
he got an A on his composition
Synonyms:
composition; paper; report; theme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
essay (an analytic or interpretive literary composition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
term paper (a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Art and technique of printing with movable type
Synonyms:
composition; typography
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
Sense 8
Meaning:
A musical work that has been created
Example:
the composition is written in four movements
Synonyms:
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Meronyms (parts of "composition"):
coda; finale (the closing section of a musical composition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
etude (a short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity)
idyl; idyll; pastoral; pastorale (a musical composition that evokes rural life)
toccata (a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style)
fantasia (a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes)
musical passage; passage (a short section of a musical composition)
movement (a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata)
largo ((music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner)
larghetto ((music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio)
suite (a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected)
symphonic poem; tone poem (an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales)
medley; pastiche; potpourri (a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources)
nocturne; notturno (a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano))
adagio ((music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully))
song; vocal (a short musical composition with words)
study (a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique)
capriccio (an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation)
motet (an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century)
program music; programme music (musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events)
incidental music (music composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes)
morceau (a short literary or musical composition)
sheet music (a musical composition in printed or written form)
arrangement; musical arrangement (a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments)
realisation; realization (a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer)
intermezzo (a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera)
allegro (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner)
allegretto (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro)
andante (a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow)
introit (a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services)
solo (a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment))
duet; duette; duo (a musical composition for two performers)
trio (a musical composition for three performers)
quartet; quartette (a musical composition for four performers)
quintet; quintette (a musical composition for five performers)
sestet; sextet; sextette (a musical composition written for six performers)
septet; septette (a musical composition written for seven performers)
octet; octette (a musical composition written for eight performers)
bagatelle (a light piece of music for piano)
divertimento; serenade (a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form)
canon (a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts)
Derivation:
compose (write music)
Sense 9
Meaning:
A mixture of ingredients
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("composition" is a kind of...):
mixture ((chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition"):
paste (any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency)
ambrosia; beebread (a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae)
compost (a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer)
soup (any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup)
Context examples:
Additional description of the composition relationship.
(Defined Composition Relationship Comment, NCI Thesaurus)
Additionally, there are intraspecies differences in venom composition and activity, depending on location and other factors.
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
The two monomers can be of the same or different composition and polymerize simultaneously.
(Copolymerization, NCI Thesaurus)
The patients who received auto-FMT consistently regained bacterial diversity, composition and function; recovery of beneficial bacteria in the 11 control patients was delayed.
(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)
Their composition, whether of atoms, molecules, grains or cells, do not lie in a neat, orderly pattern, but, instead, are all jumbled up.
(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)
A description of general breast tissue composition as obtained by sonography.
(Breast Background Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus)
Spectrometry used to determine aspects of bone composition.
(Bone Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
Tissue composition of the breast noted on sonography.
(Breast Background Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)
Butoconazole interferes with steroid biosynthesis by inhibiting the conversion of lanosterol to ergosterol, thereby changing the fungal cell membrane lipid composition.
(Butoconazole, NCI Thesaurus)
An inorganic, crystalline solid substance with a well-defined chemical composition and with characteristic physical properties that is found in nature and has the ability to increase human cancer risk.
(Carcinogenic Mineral, NCI Thesaurus)
