Composition vs Compositional - What's the difference?
composition | compositional |
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.
* , I.40:
* 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
Of or pertaining to composition.
(linguistics) Being the sum of its parts.
* {{quote-book, year=1979, title=The Signs of Language, author=Edward S. Klima & Ursula Bellugi, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=WeBOn6N8PJ8C&pg=PA202, page=202
, passage=A wet súit'' meaning a suit that is wet is a compositional phrase; a ''wét suit meaning a garment worn by skin divers is a compound.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2003, title=The German Language: A Linguistic Introduction, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=-snifythVR4C&pg=PA153, page=153, author=Jean Boase-Beier & Ken R. Lodge
, passage=We have already noted that compounds tend to have meanings that are not entirely compositional and would therefore need to be listed.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Ontological Semantics, author=Sergei Nirenburg & Victor Raskin, page=106, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=OPek3LpMIigC&pg=PA106
, passage=Sentence meaning is compositional because, to a large extent, it depends on a combination of the meanings of sentence constituents, which implies the concept of semantic structure.}}
In linguistics terms the difference between composition and compositional
is that composition is the formation of compound words from separate words while compositional is being the sum of its parts.As a noun composition
is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.As an adjective compositional is
of or pertaining to composition.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 alsocompositional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The compositional aspects of this work are less than ideal.
- The phrase "sum of its parts" is entirely compositional .
