What is the difference between composition and accompany?
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The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
The general makeup of something.
(obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
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* 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
(obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , II:
(legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
An essay.
(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
A work of music, literature or art.
* 1818 , (Jane Austen), A letter dated 8 September 1818:
(printing) Typesetting.
(label) Applying a function to the result of another.
(obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
* Shakespeare
Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
* Sir Isaac Newton
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
* 1804 :
* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
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, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
As a noun composition
is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.As a verb accompany is
to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.composition
English
(wikipedia composition)Noun
(en noun)- It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
- with an incredible courage they advanced to the push of the Pike with the defendants, that with the like courage repulsed, that the Turks retired and fled into the Castle, from whence by a flag of truce they desired composition .
- Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
- and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
- There is no composition in these news / That gives them credit.
- The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .
Synonyms
* See alsoaccompany
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Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
