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Composition is a related term of study.


As nouns the difference between composition and study

is that composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole while study is (label) a state of mental perplexity or worried thought.

As a verb study is

(usually|academic) to revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

composition

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
  • It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
  • * 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
  • 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 .
  • (obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
  • * 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , II:
  • Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
  • (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:
  • 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.
  • (printing) Typesetting.
  • (label) Applying a function to the result of another.
  • (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
  • * Shakespeare
  • There is no composition in these news / That gives them credit.
  • Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
  • The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .

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    study

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (usually, academic) To revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
  • Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
    I need to study my biology notes.
  • (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
  • I study medicine at the university.
  • To acquire knowledge on a subject.
  • Biologists study living things.
  • To look at minutely.
  • He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
  • To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.
  • To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
  • * Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 11
  • And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you

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    Noun

    (studies)
  • (label) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
  • *:
  • *:wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I my?te preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte
  • (label) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Just men they seemed, and all their study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
  • Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
  • :
  • *1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • *:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study ; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • *1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
  • *:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
  • The act of studying; examination.
  • :
  • Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
  • *(William Law) (1686-1761)
  • *:The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:The proper study of mankind is man.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
  • (senseid)A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
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  • *(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
  • *:his cheery little study
  • An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
  • :
  • (label) A piece for special practice; an .
  • Synonyms

    * (private male room) cabinet, closet (archaic)

    Coordinate terms

    * (private male room) boudoir (female equivalent)

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    Derived terms

    * brown study

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