Composition: Definition and part of speech

Composition

  1. n. Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  2. n. The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
  3. n. The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.
  4. n. The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below.
  5. n. The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.
  6. n. The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
  7. n. The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
  8. n. A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
  9. n. A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; — often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.
  10. n. Consistency; accord; congruity.
  11. 1n. 1 Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  12. 1n. 1 The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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